Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb base] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What am I going to say to him when I turn up empty-handed ? ’ |
| 2 | When I go up onstage I think , ‘ What the hell am I doing here ? ’ |
| 3 | With a wry smile she added , ‘ They 'll fink I 'm a Bolshevik when I go down that Council on Monday mornin' . ’ |
| 4 | He hands it over when I run down one flight of stairs and straight up another to arrive obediently at his side . |
| 5 | For although I am sure he never had the chance to encounter a tiger beneath the dining table , when I think over all that I know or have heard concerning him , I can think of at least several instances of his displaying in abundance that very quality he so admired in the butler of his story . |
| 6 | ‘ I feel — ’ she hesitated , looking round — ‘ I do n't know , frightened , when I look round this house . |
| 7 | Like when you go round National Trust Homes do n't you , they 're all a |
| 8 | Did you look at any comparable institutions when you set up this one ? |
| 9 | When you hand over some of your power you also ensure that , from the recipient 's point of view , their job is enlarged in new or exciting ways . |
| 10 | Your gelled and moussed-up creation might look stunning on the day , but how will it be when you wake up next morning . |
| 11 | When you pick up that telephone and answer it for an external caller , you 've become Oxford University Press and it 's important that we create the right impression for our customers , whoever they are . |
| 12 | Because I I think when you play back that tape I am really on tape ! |
| 13 | A lot of hard work goes into it , but young Mr Hitch felt he was paid in full : ‘ When the band strikes up , when you start up that village and folk cheer , there is a big lump in your throat , and that is when you are paid back . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ When you grow up all this practice will come in useful . ’ |
| 15 | Erm like any job you have your ups and your downs , it 's very nice when you see people getting better or you 've followed somebody through their pregnancy and they 've got a lovely bouncy baby at the end of it and sometimes it 's sad when you find out that somebody has got a serious illness or you 're looking after people where somebody has died and it , it 's very hard for the people left behind to cope and so that 's very difficult sometimes . |
| 16 | Yeah but I thought I ai n't seen anybody with it like that be a bit different , sort of when we go out New Years Eve and that . |
| 17 | ‘ Tony Newton , the Leader of the House , is to make an announcement about it when we go back next week . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ There is a quarterly clean up when we take out all the rubbish and weekly cleans of larger items like shopping trolleys . |
| 19 | But by and large when we take out these very unusual or exceptional years , agricultural prices do seem to have fallen . |
| 20 | When we mix up strange horses in this way , it is not surprising that some should display aggression , as the horses have not had the opportunity to work out their social positions in relation to each other . |
| 21 | We will have a different attitude , we 'll bear to watch what is happening in competitive tendering and to ask questions and to get the right the facts on competitive tendering because we found a lot of these round the competitive tendering do n't you , do n't you worry and we ai n't finished with it yet I can tell you and also we have ev , the people who are , the in house , walking in the house , have a right to have some protection from it , to see that when we dole out those contracts that it least they are genuine and they 've got a someone to see that that their interest is looked after . |
| 22 | When we add up all this dark matter , we still get only about one tenth of the amount required to halt the expansion . |
| 23 | When we add up all the indicators which show that we are moving closer to federal control , and balance them against the number which show that we are moving further away from central control , we are asking ourselves , what is the meaning of subsidiarity ? |
| 24 | No Opposition have ever mutilated more forests in the interests of producing an endless stream of written policy documents containing come-ons and pledges of all sorts to every sectional interest , but when we add up those pledges and cost them , the Labour party becomes very coy . |
| 25 | When we look in more detail at efficiency , effectiveness and performance indicators and the difficulties involved in using these ideas , we may agree that current proposals — while less ambitious — are more productive . |
| 26 | The computer fiasco quoted at the start of this chapter underlines the importance of distrusting figures or data when they become over detailed . |
| 27 | The three boys come directly from a battleship when they pick up three girls from the street . |
| 28 | So there 's no water shortage as such , sometimes you get the water problems when you get out in the sticks somewhere you 'll , you , you do have problems , but all fire officers are trained to search their areas and have special cards er which they 've done their research on , where the water supplies are , like ponds and lakes and so on , and that information is readily available when they turn out these areas so that a fire crew going out there , your nearest water supply is a pond at and certain area and they 've got that you see . |
| 29 | He thought that the Franks came from Pannonia , and that they crossed the Rhine , and marched through Thuringia , when they set up long-haired kings in every region . |
| 30 | ST HELENS will be defending an impressive Regal Trophy record when they take on last year 's beaten finalists Leeds at Knowsley Road tomorrow in what looks like being a tremendous clash of the giants . |