Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb -s] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They start again when the time comes , when alliances have shifted , when everyone has stored enough ammunition to have another go , when race hatreds revive under the guise of class wars begin anew as ethnic strife . |
| 2 | What shall I do with her when she 's had enough to eat ? ’ |
| 3 | And when she has gathered all her tribute |
| 4 | There have been few occasions since then when she has experienced such remorseless enthusiasm . |
| 5 | When she fails to do this , she runs the heavy overall current-account deficit which it has been her misfortune to do of late . |
| 6 | When one is young and brash — and I think I was brash — one is inclined to brush people aside because you know what you want and you are determined to get it , whereas when one has seen some of the problems of the world , I think one is probably more tolerant . |
| 7 | Eventually when one has had enough , he signals submission by contracting the pigment in one set of cells and expanding that in another so that his flank patterns change and he hoists the flag of surrender . |
| 8 | It is a phenomenon one encounters continually in Eastern Europe , but most blatantly when one has to have any dealings with state-run organisations . |
| 9 | The problem comes when one tries to link such words with actual available historical tempo measurements , for the results are often quite obviously and inconveniently in conflict with each other and with many present-day assumptions . |
| 10 | When one begins to explore such aspects of old people 's mutual care , the need for help which goes beyond the provision of practical support is obvious . |
| 11 | This is why men who have been deeply hurt in an extra marital affair often have a compulsion when it ends to tell all to their wives in a great burst of weeping . |
| 12 | and then when it 's got that and it 's got end on the bottom here , at the end of the stopping zone , you 've got to know that on a motorway |
| 13 | when it 's got that on . |
| 14 | yeah yeah , cos when it 's got that three it 's two |
| 15 | Your body will tell you when it 's had enough . |
| 16 | So of course , after that , your uninsured , which is absolutely true , but at the same time , erm , you 're really just bringing forward the pay-out when it 's needed most . |
| 17 | The mere fact of having been cast in the role of daughter , daughter-in-law , son or son-in-law does not automatically endow any of us with the ability to play that part to perfection , particularly when it begins to need more than smiles and pleasantries at family gatherings , and demands qualities of patience , perseverance and insight , and the regular visiting of a lonely and possibly disabled old person . |
| 18 | When it has done this , it replaces the worst few strings with new strings , formed by randomly blending a random selection of the best strings . |
| 19 | Each currency is allocated a maximum percentage deviation against its ECU central rate , and when it has reached this limit there is the presumption ( but not an obligation ) that the domestic government concerned will undertake remedial action . |
| 20 | We have only to look at the animal kingdom ; a creature in the wild will never overeat and , even if it has had to put effort into the hunting and killing of its prey , it will stop eating when it has had enough and walk away from the food . |
| 21 | When it has had enough ‘ cleaning ’ its mood changes and the hand ceases to fill the role of a maternal tongue . |
| 22 | These include predictions that the no-arbitrage condition should generally apply ; when it ceases to apply this should promptly trigger index arbitrage transactions which should rapidly eliminate the deviation from the no-arbitrage condition . |
| 23 | When he does produce these propositions he does so through ironic positive politeness , more precisely through superficially observing the approbation maxim : Anderson 's irony here is much more successful than that which he uses when arguing with the captain in scene six ( where his ironic statements concerning human rights in Czechoslovakia actually prompt the captain to ask further awkward questions ( pp. 70 – 1 ) ) , because he exploits the potential ambiguity of the academic discourse appropriate to a lecture . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | There 's nothing difficult about a whole stream of , of er comments were raised by the inspector Mr team are , have addressed a large number of them , have told us what they propose to do to deal with a number of er and , and I believe that there will be things left over when he 's finished that , that he wo n't be able to resolve er perhaps er without the people that help the Committee er or some of us are always suggesting is that er those things that he is unsuccessful in resolving erm be identified and so that er when , when the er the Inspector makes his er his next report we can see just , just why that some of these other items there have were n't able to be addressed . |
| 26 | But the bit when he 's finished that |
| 27 | No but I mean , I do n't mean wh I do n't mean where he 's been working for the corporation , I mean before when he 's had these various jobs and they 've finished and he 's had , you know , the job 's finished and they 've had to go somewhere . |
| 28 | ‘ Then he may join me indoors when he 's had enough , as I already have . ’ |
| 29 | I do not mean to be offensive to the hon. Member for Sherwood when I say that he has entertained us with his prepared briefs in many of our coal debates , but that it is a bit rich of him continually to criticise the contraction of the coal industry when he has supported many of his Government 's policies on the industry . |
| 30 | Maslow wrote that beauty is the last aim of man ; for when he has fulfilled all his drives and ambitions and has achieved self realization and creativity and success in his own eyes , there remains only this last aim of beauty . |