Example sentences of "[verb] when [pron] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For if a garage habitually does half the service its costs are very much lower than if it has done the full service ; and since it can charge the full price , because of the ignorance of the consumer , its pro fits are maximised when it does as little of the service as it can get away with . |
| 2 | Yeah mm a bit like I say when I went to that dentist surgery at er Leicester |
| 3 | It sounds pathetic but I 'm also still quite awestruck when I talk to famous people . ’ |
| 4 | It sounds pathetic but I 'm also still quite awestruck when I talk to famous people . ’ |
| 5 | What I found when I looked at this problem over the course of ten years was that this complexity , like responsibility time span , also occurs in leaps or jumps . |
| 6 | Candy Morris has amazed doctors at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford.Just two weeks ago her foot was almost severed when she fell into this shredding machine at her own paper baling business . |
| 7 | I still chuckle when I think of that deadly , German secret weapon with its trunks , whiskers and puzzled expression and the panic it caused all those years ago . |
| 8 | There 's one in the window I 'm just gon na have a look , cos I never had noticed when I came in this morning |
| 9 | And I think when we talk in terms in getting around to spending the money we have got then we need to look quite clearly about how you make a place more inviting and it 's also about when people come into the building how they 're met what the receptionists like , when they ring up can they get through and I mean I 'm I 'm surprised that 's said about the tickets that I think that our reception ticket areas an excellent area the people working there are first class are very friendly very helpful so it 's trying to get that sort of concept through the building I thin k we work on that I think the building 's kept very clean people who clean the building are very good but I hear what you 're saying and I thinks it 's been said earlier by the lady here by the foyer downstairs she feels threatened when she goes into that bar because I think the whole decor and the way it is is a threatening place I think we need to look at those so that was an old and . |
| 10 | what do people do when they retire among other things , by way of amenities ? |
| 11 | ‘ Tell me more about how this made you feel ’ , and ‘ What did you do when you felt like that ’ , give counsellees permission , and perhaps a feeling of safety , to talk further about themselves . |
| 12 | All that happens when we times by ten is that the point moves one place to the right , so what will be the answer can you tell me the answer to that one ? |
| 13 | Well mummy 's jus just going to , cos look what happens when you go in one . |
| 14 | ‘ What happens when you think of all those months in the Store not knowing about the Outside ? ’ |
| 15 | Er , simple interest rates , stop when you get to simple interest rates please . |
| 16 | Everybody stop when you get to these two . |
| 17 | What do we feel when we describe to each other our LP collections of sixteen years ago , when we linger on the morose pleasures of vodka and lime , inept discos , French kissing , Watney 's Party-Seven beer , cheesecloth shirts , Budgie jackets , very long floral skirts , knee-length boots with zips in the side , army greatcoats , Mateus Rosé , and tank tops … |
| 18 | His head turned to me , just the way Mrs Quigley 's had done when she passed on that first message from my dad . |
| 19 | Jay says his greatest pleasure came when he played against two Grandmasters from Russia and one each from England and Romania , drawing twice and losing twice . |
| 20 | Perhaps her greatest accomplishment came when she assumed from 1895 to 1899 the editorship and proprietorship of the Woman 's Signal , one of the most influential and outspoken feminist periodicals . |
| 21 | Er problems that you can have beset when you go to some places . |
| 22 | Robert began showing when he was 18 , and introduced Rosemary to exhibiting when they met in 1970 . |
| 23 | Er check locally for claims of environmentally or sustainable tropical hardwood it 's not really , I mean I do look when I go to all these D I Y places to see what they 've got . |
| 24 | The tragedy happened when he slipped on wet grass at the home of 75year-old retired Brigadier Tim Pierson in Fownhope , near Hereford . |
| 25 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 26 | Eyes which widened when they looked at Sabine , then became opaque — blank . |
| 27 | And course he 'd frightened himself and er I counted up to about eight , nine and ten I said to him , Look when you go inside that bloody gate now I said go straight into the office sit down and think for a minute where the hell are we all going to in this carry on ? |
| 28 | ‘ He is getting the new ham out of the fridge for selling when we open at five . |
| 29 | I 've just been round to see Mrs Reynolds in the village , and she 's adamant that all the kitchen and scullery windows were closed when she left at nine-thirty . |
| 30 | The superlative is used when we refer to one object or group that forms a part of a larger group of collection . |