Example sentences of "[adv] when [pron] [verb] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 * Do n't refer to yourself as " one " or " we " ; use " I " only when you want to introduce a special , personal note ( see p. 86 ) .
2 He adds that ‘ the natives of Mull are very careful to chew a piece … especially when they intend to have a drinking bout ’ .
3 Especially when you have to have a bit of salad cream on
4 Especially when she happens to have a half-sister who can provide her with a stable and secure home in London ? ’
5 We shall explore this below when we come to consider the " logical " words in English , and , or , if then , not , the quantifiers and the modals .
6 So when we came to make the recording in Vienna I asked Strauss through a mutual friend we had at that time if I could use a fuller body of strings in the climaxes .
7 The odd day here and there is not important , but if you could let me know within the next couple of weeks or so when you intend to take a major part of your holiday away — if you know — I do n't myself know erm yet — but if you do know then I can have a look at the overall picture and see that we 're not all dispersed .
8 So when you got to see the Designer 's scale model of the studio sets you knew that if you wanted to put an actor in one spot , in mid-shot , camera one would have to be precisely in such-and-such position with one lens , camera two would have to be precisely in another position with another lens , and so on .
9 So when you came to blast the the centre out , was there like a special warning to everybody
10 He wrote out all the lyrics phonetically , so when he had to sing an Italian word , it was written down exactly as it should be pronounced .
11 So when anybody wanted to repot a plant they just went round to this lady then did they ?
12 I can only get in when he forgets to lock the door .
13 We also yes I must remind you that we have read the papers so I do n't necessarily want to go through it word by word line by line er but obviously when you want to make a point you will refer back to those papers but do n't you must assume that we have read them and that everybody else has read them .
14 She fired the gun at the raiders from just four feet away when she went to help the threatened landlord at Knebworth , Hertfordshire , in December 1990 .
15 The early Vikings believed that the rainbow was a bridge for the gods to walk over when they wanted to visit the earth .
16 Maybe because tonight the warning had been a long time sounding , had started its tormented wailing just when everyone began to think the bombers were n't coming .
17 I did n't really feel a thing until about 5.30 p.m. when I began to feel a sort of tightening of the stomach , not a pain .
18 Needing the number of a firm in Guildford ( Candy Domestic Equipment ) I had waited for five minutes for the inquiry people to answer , been cut short when I attempted to give the address and then handed out two minutes of silence .
19 Since then I have found other uses for it in my knitting room such as to anchor down that very important latch tool and to put in place the little basin on the weighing machine which tends to flop off when I go to weigh a heavy jumper .
20 Once when he had to play a matinée at the Old Vic , for instance , in Hamlet , scarcely offstage for a moment , there was a Welsh International match .
21 Ungar placed rats in a start box which opened onto a lighted arena with a dark compartment in one corner , and shocked the animals electrically when they attempted to enter the dark compartment ; this punishment rapidly resulted in the animals refusing to enter the dark box .
22 It was a settlement which was to have significant ramifications for British politics , as we shall see later when we come to consider the issue of Jacobitism .
23 So later when we want to dismount the horse wo n't let us .
24 But we forgot to dispose of the discarded furnishings , and six months later when I went to spend a few days with a senior Burmese colleague , he showed me with great satisfaction his small-town church , furnished with the discarded pews , pulpit , litany desks , with the collection bags being changed according to the ecclesiastical season !
25 My problems began some days later when I wanted to change the video mode .
26 He has not told the House how much he expects his proposals to cost , both in the pilot phase , when adult credits will be paid to a quarter of a million people , and later when he hopes to extend the scheme across the country .
27 who comes two years later when he has to do the same price again and it costs him money or her .
28 But Mr Kowalski trips up when he tries to get a bit too popular , as in another Capriccio release , ‘ Plaisir d'amour , ’ in which he sings clichéd salon music ( CD 10 324 ) .
29 I found that the edge of my left hand was cramped up when I attempted to negotiate the upper frets and any urgency in so doing was rewarded by a considerable jolt as my hand hit the buffers , so to speak .
30 Well Helen 's a bit like you she , she sort of perks up when she starts to smell the petrol fumes
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