Example sentences of "[adv] when [pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our smiles of anticipation dimmed somewhat when he led us into the coffee shop , but he was a good sort and I hope we did not embarrass him . |
| 2 | The most important differences are those to be found between individuals , rather than between groups or categories This seems to imply that the one thing Shetlanders have in common is that they Are All different from one another , and that their common identity as Shetlanders is something that emerges only when they contrast themselves to people from the south . |
| 3 | They seldom waved or called to us , responding only when we greeted them with a most unEgyptian reserve . |
| 4 | That is correct yes , but only when we encounter somebody in front of us . |
| 5 | ‘ Only when she needs something from you , perhaps ? ’ |
| 6 | But especially when they put them at the end of a sentence where they should be putting a full stop . |
| 7 | Lancashire men like women with a bit of fight in them , especially when they direct it at each other . |
| 8 | A surprise attack is a superb card to have up your sleeve , especially when you combine it with a mind-numbing yell and a distracting dummy movement . |
| 9 | I believed her on both counts , especially when she visited me for a weekend and gave me a bottle of ‘ Denim ’ aftershave which she had shoplifted from a Chemist in mid Wales . |
| 10 | Returning to my first meeting with Vincent , Arthur Cheyney naturally became my hero , especially when he took me on a trip from Ipswich to Parkeston Quay , which completely sold me on the job and made me resolve to move heaven and earth to get on a cutter crew as soon as possible . |
| 11 | He thought it gave him a rakish daring look , especially when he wore it at an angle with his loud checked jacket and green tie . |
| 12 | I was young and easily impressed , so when I saw her in the West Indies , beautiful and elegantly dressed , I thought I loved her . |
| 13 | So when I approached them with my intricate scheme for escaping the greedy jaws of Mr Kinnock and his pals via the strategic disappearance of Punch , they saw the beauty of it straightaway . |
| 14 | So when he called you for the Comeback Special , was that something you did happily ? |
| 15 | He works much better when he has plenty of space around him , and when his name is , metaphorically or literally , the only one above the title . |
| 16 | Well , well you do anyway when you see them on telly and they 're all hanging round the , you know , the , the A N C meetings they all go up and down like this |
| 17 | At this point I feel honour bound to remind Mister C that he 's talking to a journalist , that what might be an affectionate insult from his friends will probably piss him off massively when he sees it in print . |
| 18 | Turkey , incidentally , just for pig-iron and incorrigible spite , look like ten times the side they were at Lansdowne , just when we need them to be sullen , depressed , and cruising for a bruising . |
| 19 | " Your father thought one of the others would have blown the gaff to me — presumably they thought he had — the net result , as always when you leave it to George , being that nobody told me a thing . |
| 20 | BELVILLE : You must bear with me ever when you find me in the wrong . |
| 21 | I knew it at once when we lost ourselves in our mutual passion . |
| 22 | Specially when you do it in front of all the neighbours . |
| 23 | to , to erm to try and remember what it was like when you read it for the first time . |
| 24 | Yeah I know it 's easier no you must feel really gutted , I mean I would I know , because as you said , you going out for ten months yeah exactly , yeah , exactly I mean come on you really liked him fancied him loved him oh wow , I said love , love love , I do n't know love hey man yeah yeah it 's probably , you know like when you dumped him for Danny it 's just probably like that yeah exactly exactly , so do n't worry oh come on he ca n't give up ten months for nothing I know it has to end someday , but it does n't I mean it 's like everyone thinks like that , it really annoys me , everybody , right who 's about our age yeah , they just go out with someone knowing that one day it 's gon na end , they 're just waiting for the day , and that you know , you should go out with someone with the intentions of being with them forever I know that sounds pathetic , but it 's true , yeah I know , yeah exactly yeah , yeah I know , why do you think I said it ? |
| 25 | ‘ Pity to shut you away down here , ’ Mr Priddy said gruffly when she thanked him for his recommendation . |
| 26 | Later in that passage he wrote : ‘ It was n't until thirty years later when I saw her in another woman [ Elizabeth Taylor ] that I realised I had been searching for her all my life . ’ |
| 27 | This is the particular issue for debate at this meeting , and I do not presume here either to pre-empt discussion or anticipate what I will say later when I consider it in greater detail . |
| 28 | I knew nothing about this convicting work of the Spirit in her , until a week later when she rang me from Halifax and asked , ‘ Does God really harden people 's hearts ? ’ |
| 29 | I say that I do n't know who the van belonged to , but it drove past when it saw me with the police . |
| 30 | yes oh yes , could do that , I 've let him some out though when you see him at the back |