Example sentences of "[adv] when [pron] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 They continue to fall away alarmingly when it comes to formal examinations and so decrease their own chances of gaining stimulating and challenging employment .
2 Timely interventions by senior Army officers had already established the ‘ official view ’ that the paratroops had fired only at clearly identifiable targets , and only when they came under heavy fire from gunmen , and nail and petrol bombers ( Curtis , 1984:41–2 ) .
3 The relative position of girls and boys becomes sharply divided only when we look at two factors behind the generalized statistics : ( 1 ) subject choices ; ( 2 ) post-school experiences .
4 Of course , many will — especially when they relate to criminal proceedings .
5 But it has taken many years for such discoveries to be accepted and acted upon , especially when they conflict with public convenience and related commercial interests , as the sad story of tobacco promotion and consumption shows .
6 I would certainly not judge a man 's ( nor woman 's ) character simply because they had a love affair , especially when it occurred before that person became leader of their party .
7 Erm , I work for ? in Edinburgh and erm , er all too often er we see er female relations er of male offenders , er this lady struck a chord er especially when it comes to serious crime
8 One was about to start work in the engineering department of Rover and was already cute enough to know what you should and should n't say to a journalist , especially when it comes to forthcoming developments of the K-series engine .
9 Finding a book from one of the great libraries out on the loose without a cancellation stamp is a disquieting experience , especially when it comes from one of the older Universities .
10 I am always mindful of the fact that 1 may move too far and pass such a spot especially when I know from previous visits that there are good numbers of zander in the area .
11 You 'll have to break yourself of the habit of bobbing up and down every time my daughter appears , especially when she looks like this . ’
12 So when you get to that point it becomes really tough to communicate , so of course no-one was communicating .
13 So when you get to that point you you 've more or
14 So when you come to discontinuous
15 And you 'll say , well it 's getting closer , as it gets closer and closer to zero it 's getting bigger and bigger and bigger , so when it gets to zero , it 'll be infinite .
16 so when it comes to this morning , you
17 If he did not understand about the unicorn or about the many and the one he understood Marian still less when she talked about simple things being difficult .
18 Now , independent taxation means that th that you 've both got an allowance of fourteen thousand two hundred before age allowance is abated , but for teachers who 're you know retired early , er some years ago , and they perhaps got a pension for themselves , a pension for their wife , then obviously when they got to sixty five , quite ou because it was calculated as a , as er one total , it actually abated their allowance quickly .
19 Thus when we refer to stylistic variation , we are concerned with the three coding levels , and when we refer to stylistic value , we are concerned with the three functions .
20 or to Jesus and to confuse their language that they may not listen to one another 's language and accordingly Jehovah scattered them from there over all the surface of the earth so , and that was God 's purpose for them to be er spread out all over the earth cos God knew that city life would only break down and all these centuries have passed since then and there 's urgent proof throughout the year , the cities , the cities do n't work so God had his own way , give it , the one , his way is the only one that works and thus when we pray for this king of
21 I 'll put it away when you done with that .
22 You give yourself away when you kiss like that .
23 Highlighting its features in this way will , I hope , enable us to recognise them more easily when they occur in embedded form in other writers .
24 One of the interesting things that I do is go every so often and talk to groups of British civil servants who are going to spend some of them a week some of them up to six weeks on an exchange visit erm with the French civil service , in an attempt to learn a certain amount erm about how the system works , both so that they will be able to understand more easily when it comes to joint erm ventures , joint matters , joint policies , what the other side is doing and the pressures within which it 's operating , and also so that sometimes they may be able to learn things , and pick up useful tips and hints about the way to handle a particular problem .
25 I had no intention of marrying early when I came to this town .
26 These exceptions demonstrate that the rigid res inter alios acta rule has been formally set aside when it conflicts with other international community values .
27 I tried to leave him once when he got like this .
28 Well yes and they were it was you know the What impressed me also you know what it 's like when you go to these places I can remember going not so long ago to Blenheim and er just about to examine something and this thundering voice coming down the hallway , Do not touch .
29 It was revived four years later when they ran into each other again in the unromantic setting of a Greenwich Village laundromat .
30 The next time I used a prostitute was a couple of years later when I went with some friends to Amsterdam .
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