Example sentences of "[pers pn] when [pron] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you do n't stop seeing Mark now we wo n't support you when it comes to further education . ’ |
| 2 | But the Hogans lived on top of you when you went to that house . |
| 3 | I have to tell you the terrible things I thought about you when I stumbled into that nursery , part of the rooms you had locked away from me . |
| 4 | The pitiable Mr Pygling , who jerked through the little town with a stick — it turned out he had Parkinson 's disease — doffed his check cap to Jane and even held the door open for her when they ran into each other at a shop until she opened the house to the public ( having restored it sufficiently ) on Sundays . |
| 5 | ‘ We were rather brusque and offhand with her when she came in that first time , ’ Waterman remembered . |
| 6 | Fear almost stopped her when she thought of this , but she would n't give in to it , for she could see the smoke billowing up . |
| 7 | If you become over-protective of her when she growls at strange dogs , in her mind you will be ‘ rewarding ’ her and making your problem worse . |
| 8 | Her father and mother , who holiday in France , have organised a job , as a cook , for her when she leaves at sixteen . |
| 9 | His mother — God rest her — had got more of a spark out of him when they went to nearby Ballymahon and Oliver Goldsmith 's birthplace , but that was only because he had already at school learned off by heart the whole of ‘ The Deserted Village ’ . |
| 10 | Lionel Luyt told me that John quickly tagged on to him when they met during those Johannesburg seasons , and was eager for discussions which went on , after performances , into the small hours . |
| 11 | ‘ Biographers are simply novelists without imagination , ’ he imagines Dickens saying to him when they meet in one of the fictional reveries which are sprinkled into the biography proper . |
| 12 | Rex and I had annoyed him by belittling the Levellers over lunch and there was no reasoning with him when he got into one of his self-righteous moods , so we left him to it . |
| 13 | I was ashamed that I 'd written a reference for him when he applied for that job . |
| 14 | I always try and go with him when he goes to medical conferences — now we hardly ever take work away from home if it means we ca n't both go . ’ |
| 15 | If you kick a child all his schooldays , force him to labour sixteen hours a day seven days a week , yank out his teeth with forceps when they ache , bleed him when he is ill , beat him throughout his apprenticeship , starve him when he falls on bad times , and finally let him die in the workhouse when he ages prematurely , then you have educated a man , in the best way possible , to be indifferent . |
| 16 | Charles was only ever jealous of him when he served with some distinction as a helicopter pilot during the Falklands war . |
| 17 | It 's not my place to talk about her , anyway , but she is wrapped up in her own life , and her husband 's politics — she met him when she belonged to some very radical student group at Oxford . |
| 18 | I remember seeing it when we went to that party , and I know , cos it would have been lit up |
| 19 | But you co could go on , I mean if you if they do n't know it you can still use it when they get to secondary school . |
| 20 | She got it when she sailed into neighbouring Albania a week ago , the first British warship to visit the country for 54 years . |
| 21 | I hate it when I get like this . |
| 22 | But it ca n't fake it when it varies from one place to another . ’ |
| 23 | True , he was a vital part of the 2nd Div side but then so were a lot of players who really were n't up to it when it came to Div I. It was , as Wilko realised a totally different ball-game . |
| 24 | Well that , I could n't believe it when it fell over this morning . |
| 25 | As a light , easily applied , low cost and water permeable crop cover there is nothing to touch it when it comes to overall versatility throughout the growing year . |
| 26 | You only recognize it when it rises in bodily form , like the Daurog itself . |
| 27 | Rather than immediately repealing the existing Informatics Law of 1984 , however , the government decided to abolish it when it expires in 1992 . |
| 28 | Oh it 's , it 's , it 's an amazing is n't it when you think of all these languages , if erm , if they all come from Adam and Eve |
| 29 | I did mine when I came in this morning . |
| 30 | Cor I bet that nearly deafens them when they listen to that tape and he 's squawking on it . |