Example sentences of "when [pers pn] be [verb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew an empty beer keg when I was tied to one , and the last time I 'd seen that particular one there had been a young punk called Emma sitting on it nostrilling certain noxious and probably illegal substances . |
| 2 | Then when I was chosen with four others to go to the Folies , we were all excited about going then . |
| 3 | When I went home a when I was started at ten and thruppence a week , it was a regula regulation in the family that the spending money erm basis , what you got for spending , was a penny in the shilling . |
| 4 | I mean when you 're looking for seventy thousand pounds savings you can only do two things . |
| 5 | When y when you 're dealing with seventeen feet of strata as in York , you n you need to know where it 's come from . |
| 6 | But a lot of these things come quite naturally er I hope we 'll see on when we look at the video that really I do n't think anybody had a major problem with the voice er and the words as well when you 're talking about two million pounds so in terms of the voice I do n't believe anybody has any major problems . |
| 7 | I do n't know how much they gave , but I do know that it , it , it came into a , a few hundred pounds which is a lot of money in those days you know , when you 're talking about nineteen sixteen . |
| 8 | They 'll say well why did this cheque do so and so and why did this do so and so and like he said well when you 're talking about forty eight pound an hour you do n't want me poking round there trying to sort out the tax man |
| 9 | Just when you are alerted to one con trick , it seems someone else is waiting around the corner with another devious way of getting you to part with your money . |
| 10 | When you are talking about 12,000 children , many only young teenagers , there is a limit to what they can do for themselves and the help of the aid community is obviously vital . |
| 11 | It was very difficult to get these things but of course erm , it did when you were talking about seventy two thousand pound for each bus . |
| 12 | I was subsequently Chief Constable of the combined Sheffield and Rotherham Police Force which whilst a joint committee , still regarded so very much as serving the two separate authorities and finally I was Chief in a Metropolitan country , with a county council and a police committee and I 'm quite sure that the police were much more sensitive to the needs and the wishes of their local communities when you were sitting at one of those , not necessarily police committee meetings , but the county council meetings , when they discussed the minutes of the police authority . |
| 13 | Doreen Ditchburn , an eighty-three year old widow , was walking home when she was robbed by two attackers and pushed to the ground , breaking her leg . |
| 14 | Mr Moulton was a member of the original funding syndicate for Rebel when she was launched in 1986 . |
| 15 | Distance has no meaning when we are looking at 125 miles so we look at time ; we will paddle for four hours and then have a five minute break . |
| 16 | I remember the brief darkness at midnight when the arc lamps lit the decks ; the interminable hours of daylight ; the unceasing work with men too tired to talk ; the hurried meals ; the luxury of sleep when we were moving from one fishing ground to another . |
| 17 | We agreed that we should be considered rather callous to go on with our usual life when we were reading of 3,000 to 4,000 casualties a day … |
| 18 | We were even more amazed when we were joined by two handsome Polish officers . |
| 19 | He added : ‘ I was staggered to learn that limestone was to go from Redmire to Redcar by road when we were told in 1988 that British Steel could n't get enough of it and had put on an additional train . |
| 20 | Even though I put a lot of work into the gigs , I was not foolish enough to believe they were important when we were playing to 40 people in London . |
| 21 | Meet the Brittonioni Brothers , a couple of avante garde movie makers , never happier than when they 're jetting from one international festival to another . |
| 22 | They rotate the hips , all babies are routinely examined at delivery and they 'll find quite a number I would , of babies with slightly clicky hips , the reason for that is because of the hormones that have , er are in the baby 's body to relax all the muscles , those will go away after a few days , so when they 're re-checked at twelve days a number of the clicks they heard originally will no longer be there . |
| 23 | I mean biologists , when they 're talking to one another , are , by and large , talking about Darwin and that 's what I 've been trying to do . |
| 24 | Both speakers and writers find this useful when they are referring to two things , one animate , one inanimate . |
| 25 | Often , he says , ecosystems are at their most diverse when they are shifting from one state to another , as the dominant types are temporarily swept aside , and many other , perhaps more specialist species , take over the vacant niches . |
| 26 | Beginners often make the mistake of looking down when they are moving from one position to another , thus breaking the cardinal first rule of combat , which is never to take your eyes off your opponent . |
| 27 | Certainly , recent suggestions from the USA that commercials are ( in some sense ) just as effective when they are abbreviated from 30 to 20 or even 10 seconds could be taken to confirm this . |
| 28 | He and his 13 year old friend Andre Leota were playing when they were assaulted by three men . |
| 29 | WAS Bill Shankly associated with Huddersfield Town when they were relegated in 1956 ? |
| 30 | The children not adopted stayed in the original creche until they reached the age of 6 , when they were transferred to two other institutions for boys and girls respectively . |