Example sentences of "and [adv prt] when " in BNC.

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1 When Queenie talks about the increased expenditure on recreation from nineteen eighty to now , that 's quite right , there has been a huge increase in spending , and that 's because the Labour Council was committed to improving recreation facilities in the City , and it did n't continue the appalling record that the Conservative administration had had before of virtually no recreational facilities , it invested in recreation facilities — you listed them yourself — and of course those facilities have to be paid for and on when we have stood for election we 've always made it clear that we want to provide quality services , but of course that they have to be paid for , and so the second point that you then made was that , you know , our budget 's gone up beyond belief , well I mean this year it 's being cut by two million pounds , last year it was a standstill budget , and erm that has been done at a time when in fact Central Government has been transferring responsibilities from Central Government onto Local Government without increasing , indeed at the same time decreasing the amount of Central Government grant that 's gone to local councils .
2 ‘ It 's the baiting … calling me upstairs when he 's down , and down when he 's up … and then thinking it 's a bit of … a joke … and that kind of thing . ’
3 I am now expected to lift her , helpless as a fool that she is , out of that great bed , daily , across the room , into a chair , and back again , and to run up and down when she catches a chill , when her back aches from being pressed against the chair .
4 ( So people actually do pace up and down when they 're nervous . )
5 Perhaps you already use a ‘ milk saver ’ , one of those thick glass discs which bounces up and down when the milk boils .
6 ‘ I 'd got the hang of jumping up and down when I was told I had to do twists and turns as well .
7 You can even move it up and down when it 's when it is n't s you can really even move it up and down look .
8 This chair goes up and down when you sit on it is that computer free ?
9 Well this is it , they want to run up and down when they 're little , I mean , they got ta expand that energy
10 The majority ( 55 per cent ) of those made redundant by the private steel firm were older workers ( those 55 and over when interviewed ) .
11 Mums who were 40 and over when their children were born were twice as likely to have left-handed children as those mothers who were under 25 .
12 It 's a Dales Explorer , go as you please and get on and off when you want any day you like , ’ he assured her .
13 Go down , catch the swing and go up on the lift , go left and collect the shield , go right and up when you reach the right-hand wall , go left and fly up the pipe , go right and fall down the gap , then go left and collect the weight and throw it onto the button to your right , go up on the lift , right , up and left on the lift , fly up past the spikes and collect a weight , fall down and go right under the spikes , throw the weight on the button , go up on the lift , up , go left when you can and fall down to collect the weight .
14 Mrs Browning was still in bed while Pen dashed in and out when he was not feeding his rabbits on the balcony .
15 The principal constraint on the number of their disagreements is , indeed , the comparative rarity of their encounters , Raymond invariably being asleep when Vic leaves for work and out when he returns home .
16 And Sporting looked down and out when the irrepressible Gavin Peacock struck twice on half-time to show just what a coup it was when Keegan persuaded him to stay at Newcastle .
17 You were n't sort of allowed just in and out when you wanted to , you had to get permission to stay out late .
18 United took off skipper , Andy Melville for the second half , but they were down and out when full-backs Garry Smart and Mike Ford got in each other ; s way and produced an own goal .
19 Or so he seemed to Sairellen Thackray who preferred her leaders to have the mature dignity of a Richard Oastler , whom she had followed on foot those ninety miles to York and back when they had been campaigning for the ten hour working day .
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