Example sentences of "[adv] when [pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So perhaps when he needed to fly by instinct in deciding the course of his career , there was the Cach , the action , the absorbed attention of everybody he knew and the glamour of illicit cigarette smoke uncoiling in the beam of the projector . |
| 2 | The police are very unwilling to interfere in family matters and apparently when she threatened to go to the police whatever he told her he would say to them if she did report her daughter missing convinced her it would be useless for her to take such action . |
| 3 | I 'm not demanding we spend the entire weekend locked in a clinch , ’ Vitor said impatiently when she started to protest , ‘ but we should appear to be on good terms . |
| 4 | ‘ These big international companies recognise borders only when they want to use them to set one workforce against another , ’ says one . |
| 5 | Native speakers of English typically use " have " in the present tense ( as in these two examples ) only when they want to imply that the event described is still happening or is still the case . |
| 6 | Only when we learned to rule again without soldiers , he said , would we be safe . |
| 7 | Only when I began to realize what my situation was really like did I see the gospel for what it was — extremely good news for people in extremely bad situations . |
| 8 | ‘ Only when I want to make love to you , and that is n't what you 've got in mind right now , is it ? ’ |
| 9 | * Do n't refer to yourself as " one " or " we " ; use " I " only when you want to introduce a special , personal note ( see p. 86 ) . |
| 10 | According to this view , the woman who agrees to have sex with D only when he promises to marry her ( never intending to keep this promise ) — and because he has promised to marry her — is a victim not of rape but of the lesser offence of procuring sexual intercourse by false representations . |
| 11 | Only when he had to stare straight into it did he flinch ; it was not , his face said , a pretty sight . |
| 12 | The sound his long-toed riding-shoes made on the flags was not clumsy , and yet curiously halting , like the pace of a lame man whose lameness shows only when he forgets to brace himself . |
| 13 | Only when he turned to speak to Tao Chu did he realise how avidly the boy was studying him . |
| 14 | He thinks he has saved for his holiday — a fallacy that is exposed only when he tries to redeem those bits of paper against an empty spending account . |
| 15 | We can get a lift easy enough when we want to go , ’ Maxted assured me . |
| 16 | The jousting could not be started and the close combat was soon abandoned as it had become farcical , contestants falling down when they tried to wield their weapons . |
| 17 | As you said accidents do happen and things do n't get put down when you need to verify . |
| 18 | David Speedy 's goal enough to get all three points for Leicester and I think on the balance of play they just about edged it but Forest put up a marvellous performance in the second half especially when they had to make er changes and things did n't go well for them . |
| 19 | He adds that ‘ the natives of Mull are very careful to chew a piece … especially when they intend to have a drinking bout ’ . |
| 20 | Out-of-town businessmen use our facilities , especially when they wish to impress important clients . ’ |
| 21 | This messes up our whole routine , especially when we have to make numerous trips to the pigeon holes to see if the mail has arrived , not to mention putting the post room in a turmoil . |
| 22 | ‘ Although this is a drastic comparison it is still worth bearing in mind , especially when we begin to pass from youth to maturity . |
| 23 | ‘ Although this is a drastic comparison it is still worth bearing in mind , especially when we begin to pass from youth to maturity . |
| 24 | At times this caused quite a scuffle , especially when we tried to insist on lumping several together and pretending that the result was a nation , albeit a federal one — rather in the same way as the parliamentary managers of the eighteenth century used to bribe Scottish peers by the batch , half a dozen or a dozen at a time . |
| 25 | The son of a Siberian farmer , Rasputin soon adopted the motto ‘ work hard and play hard ’ , especially when it came to drink and women . |
| 26 | This work promises to be arduous , especially when it comes to deal with Jewish settlements in the territories , the future of Jerusalem , and security . |
| 27 | Despite these limitations , Rabbit can claim some advantages over other mobile phones currently available , especially when it comes to call quality and security , and international compatibility . |
| 28 | It is also very preparation for climbing , since balance and swing are crucial , especially when you have to swing up six feet and balance on a ledge no wider than a fingernail … . and as for amateur dramatics — you should see some of our training sessions ! |
| 29 | That is a very short time , especially when you have to travel all that way . ’ |
| 30 | Especially when you have to have a bit of salad cream on |