Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] when [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill Murray spent £50,000 on setting up his restaurant at Telegraph Hill , near Exeter , Devon , two years ago but said the business started to go downhill when he handed it over to a manager to run . |
| 2 | A group of alumni teachers came to a specially organised programme at the Schools Open Day this year and we laid on an ‘ Any Questions ’ panel so that they could grill our Admissions Tutors about what really goes on when they receive an application from a sixth former . |
| 3 | Oh yeah , but I mean it just goes on when you need it all new . |
| 4 | We are , he observed , only too willing to make this sort of leap , and not only in the field of theology ( Hume was also very critical of what he saw as the pretensions of the science of his day to uncover the ‘ hidden springs ’ of things ) , but we need to be much more modest and cautious , to realise how limited the scope of our experience and knowledge is , and how liable our minds to go astray when they over-reach themselves and fish in waters too deep for their lines to plumb . |
| 5 | We were about to carry on when we saw two women with their loads of pine-needles coming down the path towards us . |
| 6 | It 's just it 's very very very well , put it this way , children seem to learn language very very very very quickly and they 've got very very very little data to go on when they learn the language . |
| 7 | He began his term in office much in the spirit he intends to go on when he blasted the banks and receivers for causing so much misery among the small business community . |
| 8 | I only sit down when he comes in and he 's not in much . |
| 9 | The old girl may have updated her image and cleaned up her act , but those eyebrows still crash together when she frowns . |
| 10 | I do n't think so when I went to let him in he 'd pulled himself up round the patio and looked as though he expected to be walloped for being silly he 's taken us this morning . |
| 11 | It had been lashing down when they 'd gone in . |
| 12 | Whether that will upset the balance at all because Lewis was a very important for them he kept stepping in when they wanted to change play . |
| 13 | It had fallen down when she had pushed the door open . |
| 14 | Feeling the heat of his gaze right through the thin material , she folded her arms protectively , realising only when she saw his mouth curve into a mocking smile that she had merely pushed her breasts upwards , making them clearly visible above the ribbons and lace of the bodice . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I mean basically when we look at the range of council services , then you have to take decisions about the balance of spending between different priorities . |
| 17 | Bacterial spores can withstand extremes of hot and cold , not to mention the vacuum of space , for extended periods , germinating only when they attain more favourable environments . |
| 18 | She took a deep breath , was about to go in when she heard her name . |
| 19 | It 's actually not uncomfortable to sit in when you get used to it . |
| 20 | It 's kind of late now and I 'm in no condition to drive so when I get the 205 I only take it as far as the outskirts of Inverness where I stop at the first lit Bed and Breakfast sign I see and talk politely and slowly to the pleasant middle-aged couple from Glasgow who run the place and then say goodnight , close the door of my room and fall fast asleep on the bed without even taking off my jacket . |
| 21 | He himself admitted so when he emerged , telling his followers that he thought he had killed Comyn , whereupon one of them rushed in ‘ to mak siccar ’ ( make sure ) : the Kirkpatricks of Dumfries have ever since carried the emblem of a bloody hand with dagger and the motto ‘ I mak siccar ’ on their coat of arms . |
| 22 | Constance asked timidly when she heard the voice at the other end . |
| 23 | In other words , if precedent was followed , the package of budget cuts would be attacked piecemeal when it disappeared into the congressional maze ; even though there might be general agreement on the need to cut the budget , vested interests operating through sympathetic members could , one by one , weaken or restore specific cuts . |
| 24 | He moved on when he saw her expression . |
| 25 | Hence the scullions having to use small stools to stand on when they wanted to do anything like wash up dishes , stir soups or work controls . |
| 26 | If you had n't come in when you did … ’ |
| 27 | Her whole body relaxed when Beth told her with a measure of amusement , ‘ No , Peggy , but I might well have done if you had n't come in when you did . ’ |
| 28 | In a bare tank ( minimum size 10″ x 6″ x 6″ ) , suspend two spawning mops on pieces of cork or polystyrene and place a clump of Java Moss on the tank base for the female to hide in when she requires a respite from spawning . |
| 29 | Another racking fit of coughing seized him , doubling him over and ending only when he retched up a gush of phlegm and blood . |
| 30 | One of the interesting things about Channel Four is that it is pluralistic in its programming : plug in when you feel like it . |