Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb base] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I get four weeks ago . |
| 2 | And I always listen when I get crossed lines . |
| 3 | in written language an extensive set of metalingual markers exists to mark relationships between clauses ( that complementisers , when I while temporal markers , so-called ‘ logical connectors ’ like besides , moreover , however , in spite of , etc. ) , in spoken language the largely paratactically organised chunks are related by and , but , then and , more rarely , if . |
| 4 | It helps to put that in a smaller bracket , when I go three times that , minus that . |
| 5 | I have heard of considerably larger numbers being taken by other people but when I hear such tales I am inclined to wonder how it is that so many can become so jammed together without suffocating in such a small hole . |
| 6 | You were a fine young man once , but now , when I hear these stories , I wonder … |
| 7 | I cringe when I hear those songs these days ; mind you , perhaps one day I 'll be cringing about the songs I 'm writing now … |
| 8 | Yet for all this , more co-ordinated machinery still has to emerge and I confess to experiencing a certain sour taste of insincerity when I hear educational leaders talking about promoting a relevant and dynamic curriculum for primary schools , yet notice that they are hastening most slowly in providing the assessment policy needed to enable this to happen . |
| 9 | When I hear Tory Members speaking about the health service , in Trafford or anywhere else , I am bound to come to the conclusion that they are after family jobs . |
| 10 | All too often , when I visit successful schemes throughout the country , I find that they are about to announce that they can not carry on , or that they can not diversify or increase the take-up because the Government have not provided any money . |
| 11 | When I visit Labour leaders in the north-east , north-west and elsewhere I do not think that they are living in the past , either . |
| 12 | The brake 's alright , although it was n't on when I put some brakes on |
| 13 | However , when I make these comparisons across the Atlantic , I can almost hear my readers saying : " plate tectonics " . |
| 14 | And when I say stout supports , I mean stout . |
| 15 | Well taking our rivers , first of all , have the rivers of Sussex changed very much in recent years , and when I say recent years I mean over the last few centuries ? |
| 16 | I do n't talk to my father about physics ; it 's always a mistake because he gets cross when I say silly things , but the rest of the family get cross because they ca n't understand . |
| 17 | Yes , and when I celebrate good times , I do it with Dregs . |
| 18 | Oh Marks and Spencers when I buy those croissants they 'd got hot cross buns on sale . |
| 19 | I do fucking when I do silly things like I rip bus stop signs |
| 20 | That way I avoid being plagued by calls from obscure planets when I have important things on my mind . |
| 21 | Erm again when I have bad days with these wrists they just give way , and this is not a mental thing at all , I mean I could be holding a , a glass or a cup in my hand or a , a , a dish of something for that matter , and the er the nerves just relax the muscle and out it goes , it 's n n I do n't know it 's going to happen , but it can happen . |
| 22 | I assure my hon. Friend that when I meet Guyanese Ministers — or , indeed , Ministers from any country — I take every opportunity to promote British exports . |
| 23 | When I see other children going to school I feel so depressed and disturbed , my girl is indoors all day . |
| 24 | When I see these Islands in sight of each other , & possessed of but a scanty stock of animals , tenanted by these birds , but slightly differing in structure & filling the same place in Nature , I must suspect they are only varieties . |
| 25 | ‘ But when I see those stones here , and ponder — as I was doing when I so nearly precipitated myself upon you — ’ he laughed , gently , at his own folly and again rapiered a look to Miss D'Arcy who , in control now , returned to him the dreamy interest of the truly hooked — ‘ it was Egypt I thought on . |
| 26 | I had a feeling when I read those words over 40 years ago , and written in the heat of the aftermath of a long and tiresome period of war , that Sir Arthur might have wished he had put it differently . |
| 27 | When you make these dishes , or other obviously easily freezable recipes which you particularly like , it is a good idea to cook several portions at one time and then divide them into individual portions and store them in the freezer in bags . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's just that when you get two things happening like that , people say there 's going to be three , do n't they ? |
| 29 | That 's an interesting point that , any square root , any square root you always get two answers for square roots yeah , it 's always plus thing and minus thing , in complex numbers , when you get complex numbers there are always what we call complex conjugators , if you drew them on them , on them diagram , right , if you drew them on the diagram , what 'll you get , plus five minus three I , plus five , minus three I , and then and then we get minus five , plus three I , You get plus and minus there . |
| 30 | When you get strong winds here in the sometimes in the Summer . |