Example sentences of "when [pron] be [vb pp] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I put my name on the list with everyone else , but was absolutely dumbfounded when I was told one day that it had come up , along with that of one of the other Waafs , and if we wanted to go we were to report to RAF Wyton at 10.00 hours the next day . |
| 2 | I would talk and laugh with my companions but withdraw , lapsing into silence , when I was offered any food . |
| 3 | The hand promptly slapped her on the neck , and she leapt into the air with shock and surprise ; but she was even more surprised when she was offered more feed . |
| 4 | One victim was glad of it when she was raped last year . |
| 5 | And women who are admitted for surgery respond better when they 're given more information . |
| 6 | Supply teachers are more effective and happier when they are given some guidance on routines and expectations . |
| 7 | Societies should always be aware when they are launched that life is not always sweetness and light when the pressure is on and constitutions should be framed so that disputes do arrive the framework for settlement already exists . |
| 8 | It was just too much for the American girl when they were faced one day with yet another torrential downpour . |
| 9 | This meant that even the more suspicious members of the Applied Psychology Unit 's general subject panel who took part in later studies appeared to be genuinely surprised when they were given subsequent memory tests . |
| 10 | His urethral discharge and her vaginal discharge had both cleared by two weeks , and when they were seen one month after their original visit , there was no sign of infection or inflammation . |
| 11 | Drama is a piece of literature that only works when it 's given threedimensional form . |
| 12 | Seems obvious when it 's put that way . |
| 13 | There is the special delight Britons have in gossip , especially when it is hinted that politics are spiced with sex . |
| 14 | These facts are indeed significant , but they are susceptible of a rather different Interpretation when it is accepted that importance and success amongst the ulema in the earlier period did not depend upon one 's position in the hierarchy or concomitant matters like salary or membership of the divan — to anything like the same degree that they did in later times . |
| 15 | The disclosures come at a time when there are three known bids by senior civil servants to buy out part of the Crown Suppliers when it is privatised next year . |
| 16 | When it was transferred last year with it went pilot line supremo on a three-year secondment . |
| 17 | The jobs of men were threatened when it was announced last year that the Ladas Drive facility would be replaced by a £250 , fire station at Carryduff . |
| 18 | Ileana Cotrubas is not of that ilk , and many of her devotees must have been shocked when it was disclosed last weekend that her Covent Garden recital with Geoffrey Parsons on Thursday evening was to be her farewell British appearance . |
| 19 | I have lived in Grey Street for over 30 years and we have never had a bus service in all that time , so when it was introduced last year everyone was delighted . |
| 20 | " There 's the stuff he 's used to line his chambers with — or rather the stuff he 's thrown out when he 's put fresh bedding in — very clean creatures , badgers , and a very nice resident for your woods . |
| 21 | Bill , could I come back to a quotation by another former Tory Prime Minister in the nineteen sixties , erm they were ragging old Douglas Hume unmercifully , the Labour Party did , when he was made Prime Minister , and , you know , erm all 's fair in politics , and Harold Wilson , I think , made the comment that the democracy of this country had ground to a halt with the appointment of the fourteenth earl , and Douglas Hume , in his sort of very self-deprecating way and his very modest way , says ‘ well , you know , I suppose if one were to ask , he 's probably the fourteenth Mr Wilson ’ . |
| 22 | Alan Keen , Boro 's former tactical scout , won political promotion when he was elected Labour member for the Middlesex constituency of Feltham and Heston on April 9 . |
| 23 | His request was refused , and attempts to persuade the English courts to order the alteration failed when he was refused legal aid . |
| 24 | He was all ready to be wheeled into theatre at Oxford 's John Radcliffe Hospital for an artery replacement in his heart when he was told this afternoon that the operation was off.The intensive care unit bed he would use to recover from after surgery had been taken by another , more urgent case . |