Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chair with the wobbly leg , the dented saucepans , the knives with loose handles , all were gathered up and restored if possible , mainly by Nigel , who , when I produced new casualties almost weekly as the season wore on , would sigh and say patiently , ‘ Put it on my bench , darling . ’ |
| 2 | It happened when I was forced on to a very low fat diet for health reasons ( I had a gall bladder that grumbled very painfully when I ate fatty food ) . |
| 3 | And I always listen when I get crossed lines . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I had just checked into the hotel and come down to the sunken terrace when I saw armed men running in a crouched position by the swimming pool . |
| 6 | ‘ When I crossed Swilcan Bridge I had a feeling of … , ’ he recalled that evening in his lodgings , ‘ … how do I say it ? ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When I had spare time , but if you 'd If it was decent weather you 'd have to give a hand in the garden at home you see ? |
| 10 | That the style they replaced it with is specifically a feminist style is suggested by the comments made to me when I interviewed feminist women about how they thought feminists talked . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | When I became Prime Minister this is what I promised . |
| 14 | IN AN interview with The Independent newspaper , John Major complained of ‘ the inheritance I had when I became Prime Minister . |
| 15 | ‘ When I became Prime Minister we were on the eve of war to free Kuwait . |
| 16 | He looked very doubtful when I asked certain questions and laughed me to scorn when I gave my verdict . |
| 17 | When I asked Grand Met how it could justify the high rent increases , I was told that tenants could easily afford them because tenants would now receive all the proceeds from the amusement machines instead of sharing them with the brewers , although they still have to pay a high licence fee and rent . |
| 18 | When I asked Special Branch for extra men for surveillance work , I was told there were no extra men available . |
| 19 | There was , he said , ‘ no interest whatsoever ’ to the extent that : ‘ When I left junior school , they [ his surrogate parents ] never even came to the school to see about it . |
| 20 | He did that and it is very clean , but nowadays a very suburban tabloid , but it 's fresh , it 's pleasant as a result , and that when I quit Rolling Stone . |
| 21 | No no , this fat old bird was round the back of Bunrannoch House , when I took wee Alex for a walk . |
| 22 | Now , when I took post-natal depression I asked my health visitor , you know , where do you go ? |
| 23 | Planning for the fateful flight started several weeks earlier when I made tentative arrangements to visit a microlight manufacturer at Membury airfield in Berkshire for the review of the Chevron which appears in this issue . |
| 24 | I was happy with the arrangement because I did not want to be tied to a nine-to-five existence , and my employer remained happy , especially when I made regular appearances as his partner at various golf days — all good for business , of course . |
| 25 | And the rosebush culled from the best North-West London nursery — he 'd planted it last Saturday — was only there for me when I ripped scarlet beads of blood from thin air . |
| 26 | When I spoke great tears fell from the eyes of the grey hound , more and more , heavier and heavier . |
| 27 | And when I say stout supports , I mean stout . |
| 28 | 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 ? |
| 29 | When I say nice people , people that well you know what 's come from all the different countries , from out there . |
| 30 | 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 . |