Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He looked very doubtful when I asked certain questions and laughed me to scorn when I gave my verdict . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | When I spoke great tears fell from the eyes of the grey hound , more and more , heavier and heavier . |
| 15 | And when I say stout supports , I mean stout . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Yes , and when I celebrate good times , I do it with Dregs . |
| 19 | As it is , when I showed close colleagues my first working paper ( Young 1979a ) on experiences in a police bridewell ( see Chapters 2 and 3 ) , they were alarmed . |
| 20 | Once , I was going to be a bridesmaid in a blue dress , and when I needed new shoes before the wedding , I refused to have blue shoes , insisting on brown ones . |
| 21 | I do fucking when I do silly things like I rip bus stop signs |
| 22 | That way I avoid being plagued by calls from obscure planets when I have important things on my mind . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | When I see other children going to school I feel so depressed and disturbed , my girl is indoors all day . |
| 26 | ‘ I was a child when I learned other things also . |
| 27 | It all began when I won New Faces , but it gave me a very big head . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | When you get strong winds here in the sometimes in the Summer . |
| 30 | When you 've net curtains on them . |