Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [noun] when [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well can you not go down in the morning when you 're a bit better ? |
| 2 | Well , at about half-seven he 'd gone into a restaurant in St Giles ‘ , Browns ; had a nice steak , with a bottle of red wine ; left at about half-nine — and was strolling down to The Randolph when he 'd met Mrs Sheila Williams , just outside the Taylorian , as she was making for the taxi-rank . |
| 3 | ‘ We were about twenty minutes altogether from the point where we realized they could n't get us down to the time when we stepped on to the roof . |
| 4 | The timeliness of the Minor award in these terms was noted by the head of history : The project came along at the time when we were thinking about cross-curricular developments anyway , and the school had been concerned about the particular pattern of study skills and how they could be extended and coordinated . |
| 5 | He started looking into corners for the bugging device , though he said he was searching for a stray cigarette , left over from the days when he smoked . |
| 6 | Do you often feel like dozing off during the day when you need to be awake ? |
| 7 | you need time off in the day when you 're physically resting to him . |
| 8 | This will be set to illuminate the tank during the early part of the day , and switch off in the evening when I want to see the fish . |
| 9 | They used to pop up in the morning when it was a bit cooler and damper and then flatten out in the afternoon when the temperature got up . |
| 10 | Conversation between them had been a problem in the hospital where they first met , right up to the night when she pushed his cot into an empty room , locked the door , took off her uniform and climbed in beside him . |
| 11 | I do n't know how long she kept using it ( or more precisely , how long it kept using her ) , but surely up to the day when she noticed her sister , younger by eight years , tossing up her arm while saying good-bye to a girlfriend . |
| 12 | ( 2 ) … in relation to an institution in respect of which a payment falls to be made under section 58(2) above any reference in this Act to a depositor 's protected deposit is a reference to the liability of the institution to him in respect of — ( a ) the principal amount of each sterling deposit which was made by him with a United Kingdom office of the institution before the making of the administration order and which under the terms on which it was made is or becomes due or payable while the order is in force ; and ( b ) accrued interest on any such deposit up to the time when it is or becomes due and payable as aforesaid ; but so that the total liability of the institution to him in respect of such deposits does not exceed £20,000 . |
| 13 | We 're allowed to have it on in the night when I 'm never fucking here ! |
| 14 | ‘ Can you come back during the week when it 's less busy ? ’ asked the assistant . |
| 15 | Suddenly the flood-gates opened and Topaz let everything spill out from the day when she took Andrew 's horse to the moment when Amsterdam asked her to marry him . |
| 16 | but that was sold out until the day when I went in for milk |
| 17 | I remember you from when I was a kid , back in the days when you do n't remember me . ’ |
| 18 | Back in the days when he 'd lived in a hole in a bank , Masklin had spent far too much time cold and wet to turn up his nose at a chance to sleep warm and dry . |
| 19 | Back in the days when he had yet concerned himself with the world . |
| 20 | You can bring it back in the morning when you pick up your own . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Looking back on the time when I was really big , around 1979 , I was the saddest and most miserablest I 've ever been . |
| 22 | Looking back on the period when he was seriously searching as a fourteen-year-old ( and for a man with a mind of Russell 's breadth this was no ‘ mere adolescence ’ ) , he described it like this : |
| 23 | After completing the airshow routine , John was on the homeward flight back to the UK when he ran into bad weather . |
| 24 | The idea is that if elderly people can be encouraged to think back to the times when they had lots of relationships , and when they felt they had some status and worth , then they are able to feel that status carry over more into their present life . |
| 25 | Then he 'd been walking back to The Randolph when he suddenly felt he just could n't face his excessively sympathetic countrymen , and he 'd called in a pub and drunk a couple of pints of lager . |
| 26 | The memory was only a couple of minutes old , but he felt that scrap of the past unravel to bring him back to the moment when she said , ‘ I 'd been out to meet someone . |
| 27 | Go back to the moment when you first met and remember how it felt . |
| 28 | He thought back to the moment when he and Sophie were inside Singer 's flat : the bed littered with clothes hangers , the dim light , the stale air . |
| 29 | She wears little make-up for work and says : ‘ It goes back to the time when I started in the job . |
| 30 | Looking back to the time when she could n't find reverse on her company car , Alison contrasted this with her new job responsibilities : ‘ Now I 'm driving over 2,500 miles a month , much of it spent on the M25 . |