Example sentences of "[be] when [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inevitably I shot many animals to feed myself and my retainers , but the memorable occasions were when I hunted dangerous game or tried to secure a really fine head of a rare or elusive animal , like this mountain nyala . |
| 2 | I had hoped there would be a letter from him waiting at Benedict 's when I returned last night . |
| 3 | aye yes , that 's when you miss that fridge |
| 4 | And it 's when you see these mothers there that the question : ‘ Why Care ? ’ receives its most direct answer . |
| 5 | Yes it 's when you see British Telecom repainting all their vans with this silly new logo that you get a bit twitchy do n't you ? |
| 6 | But what er what happened is when they rebuilt this building in the fifteenth century the masons found these and reused them reset them inside because they 'd lost their significance in over the three hundred years , so but they were useful structural er things . |
| 7 | Such episodes may , of course , be confused as passing acknowledgements , but the readiness to exchange such signals is one of the ways in which we register the normality of the passing scene and it is when we encounter consistent anomalies in the broadcast that we begin to suspect and perhaps report something odd . |
| 8 | You heard about the eh education secretary 's faux pas somebody from Jack section , he , he 's apparently he slipped up er , and said right and Jack said to him I was to tell the education authorities suggest that you do when the education er clerk turn to Mr and said you are just , streaming is when he put one child in the same group for all subjects , setting is when there in different groups according to their ability , so you could be a Maths set A or an English set B , awkward is n't it ? |
| 9 | The only exception is when you need unique expertise not required on a permanent basis . |
| 10 | He says the worst is when you say good evening , sir , and they walk past you as if they do n't exist . |
| 11 | All I can say is when you read that document carefully it 's an open cheque for the C E C. They can go and come back next year and give you a date for a merger . |
| 12 | ‘ What infuriates me is when you see scummy people dropping litter . |
| 13 | erm you end up with four different er types of er reproductive strategies which are of monogamy , polygyny , polygamy and polyandry and the first one monogamy is when you have one male and female and er this minimizes the differences in reproductive success and the way it does that is because erm it , it minimizes the difference between the sexes because monogamy takes the limitations of the male erm to reproduce only with the one female so the male to female ratio of reproductive success the same in monogamy , and er what happens to that is this little in er more equal towards their parental investment . |
| 14 | The best time to do this diet is when you have two months uncomplicated by going on holiday , moving house , changing your job , doing large amounts of business travel , or entertaining at home or at work . |
| 15 | Er the second polygyny where you have one male and then females and here reproductive success erm meaning that there 's a large again you 'll have the males who 'll have the large reproductive success than males who have none at all and erm of course often differences between male and female because the male has and the male has opportunities to erm try to control success rate the female biological and er consequently with this kind of system from female choice and male competition and er are about eighty percent and er polygamy is when you have many males and many females and er is also and er I would assume it 's kind of like males have opportunities . |
| 16 | Now the next thing I 'd like you to note down is when I say other actors in the international system , obviously there are other governments as well but as well as governments if you , the word actors is quite often used in international affairs , if you were to list what the other actors are erm would you , would you note down them , say , put four or five other actors . |
| 17 | his only dip in form since he s been at Leeds was when he had back trouble . |
| 18 | It was when I had that skiing accident in Switzerland . ’ |
| 19 | The only time I 've flown was when I paid five bob for a trip in Alan Cobham 's flying circus . ’ |