Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] when they [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From time to time , too , Jenna caught Alain 's dark eyes watching her through the driving mirror , and she was greatly relieved when they began to skirt Paris . |
| 2 | The contributors ' arguments became a little less convincing when they came to explain why mantras were used . |
| 3 | Shapes began to form as the colours settled into patterns , but the shapes were still indistinct when they started to move violently . |
| 4 | The three main works — by Trevor Wilson , Roy Douglas , and Chris Cook — are all rather slight when they come to tackle the complexities of the Liberal attitude during the crisis . |
| 5 | Twelfth-century English historians , writing during Eleanor 's own lifetime , were understandably cautious when they came to analyse her role in the revolt . |
| 6 | If this perspective is adopted , environmentalists ought perhaps to be grateful for the fact that the vast majority of farmers are not more economically rational when they come to organize the husbandry of their farms and that the inertia introduced by the historical pattern of landownership and farm structure in this country has acted as a brake on landscape change . |
| 7 | The Labour Party , or its thinking wing , is polishing its credentials so remarkably that Mr Smith 's team will look quite different when they get to meet us all again in the polling booth . |
| 8 | This may well be so , but I get very tired when they attempt to banter tactics with me . |
| 9 | For instance , women find it very intimidating when they have to attend large business functions , which are still dominated by men . ’ |
| 10 | Erm , and i i , I think people quite often feel very bad when they try to stop smoking , I I ha , used to smoke about forty a day and I 've now succeeded in stopped for about four years , but I know that I did have several failures and whe when when you try to stop and and fail you feel extremely bad and low and depressed about yourself , and people probably need quite a lot of support . |