Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Thoo 's walked 'ome from chapel together every Sunday for a couple o' years and now , when 'e does t'decent thing and asks me for thi 'and , thoo 's refusing . ’ |
| 2 | Esther Rantzen is often seen making use of the genre when she asks elderly ladies to do impersonations of Tom Jones or perform an impromptu rumba . |
| 3 | When she meets other animals , walk on and ignore her — as she is timid of strange people , I think this will overrule her aggression towards a strange dog , and she will catch up very quickly . |
| 4 | It is her responsibility to feed the chicks and keep them warm — she rarely leaves the nest when she has tiny offspring . |
| 5 | Erm there 's tremendous pressures I think for for a mother particularly erm at the early stage in the marriage when she has young children at home . |
| 6 | When it meets real resistance the army will recoil and break . ’ |
| 7 | It hardly seemed to augur well for the firm 's chances when it goes head-to head with the likes of Brown Boveri ASEA or GEC Alsthom . |
| 8 | The House was , as I recollect it , in a rather more highly charged mood than is usual when it discusses European matters . |
| 9 | The research is a learning process and is most productive precisely when it changes prior views and expectations . |
| 10 | The rows may be triggered by a seemingly trivial incident , but it is not felt as trivial when it symbolizes past conflicts and needs . |
| 11 | I am quite sure that the Moderator and his colleagues will be able to withstand any theological attack directed by the Rev. Ian Paisley , but when it approaches physical violence this is another matter . |
| 12 | It may be argued that there is nothing too morally reprehensible about this in many areas of our public life : but when it affects life-and-death issues , such as Northern Ireland , the idea of making legislation on internment , for example , subject to back-room bargains struck at Westminster , is one which would stick in the throats of many voters . |
| 13 | Iceland says that when it resumes commercial whaling , as it intends to do , it will withdraw its objections to the cull grenade ban . |
| 14 | " The history of the Russian people " , wrote Shchapov from prison a month later , " fills our heart with the belief and the hope that sooner or later a time must come for the Russian people when it acquires political self-consciousness and , as a result , political self-government " . |
| 15 | In May , 1991 , the Digital Information Group 's Software Industry Bulletin reported that SelecTronics expects to report a ‘ significant loss ’ for its financial year ended 31 March and that it is restructuring its business so that it manufactures handheld devices only when it has firm orders from its distribution channels . |
| 16 | An area of mystery is rational to God , but faith must suspend judgement and not press human reason to answer questions when it has insufficient information . |
| 17 | At the other extreme , ‘ I dislike it ’ turns out to be highly questionable when it implies diminished awareness : |
| 18 | Toyota plans to make them at Georgetown when it doubles annual car output from 200,000 to 400,000 in the next few years . |
| 19 | Rubin , the designers of all Soviet nuclear submarines , says leakage of plutonium from corroded nuclear torpedoes is not expected to start until 1995 or 1996 , but when it starts strong currents could disperse the contamination over distances of up to 100 kilometres . |
| 20 | It is least successful when it makes stereotypical assumptions about women : that they behave in certain ways because they are mothers , or because they do n't work outside the home , for example . |
| 21 | Deny the humanity of any man — even when he commits inhuman acts — and you diminish your own . |
| 22 | Mr Peter Sutherland will end a 20-year teaching career when he takes early retirement from Tilery Primary School in the summer , at the same time as Mr James Burton retires from Bishopsgarth School after ten years in the profession . |
| 23 | As this might be my last opportunity to draw the attention of my hon. Friend the Minister to the topic of the proposed M12 between Chelmsford and the M25 , I seek his assurance that when he receives alternative proposals for that motorway 's line of route , he will take into account that such a motorway may not be required . |
| 24 | It will be argued that the decision to put something in other words is essentially a decision about style , a point which is , perhaps , anticipated by Burton-Roberts when he describes loose apposition as a rhetorical device . |
| 25 | Well what about those people who are morally worthy , I take it when he says low class , he does n't mean low moral class , but mean low social class as well he probably means both things actually . |
| 26 | Can my hon. Friend confirm that when he announces new proposals for deregulation he will ensure that he and his officials have consulted the Minister for small businesses to see that every effort is made to take into account the needs of small businesses and that deregulation , wherever possible , is increased , so that small businesses can get special exemptions where possible from what can be very complicated regulations and procedures that the Government introduce ? |
| 27 | The Euro-sceptics argue that Mr Major has established himself as a good European merely to carry credibility when he vetoes monetary union . |
| 28 | The hon. Gentleman is really behaving disgracefully — — when he accuses British Rail of negligence before an inquiry has even begun , and when he has not the slightest idea of what caused that accident . |
| 29 | MR KINNOCK has announced that when he becomes Prime Minister he will give the Elgin marbles to Greece . |
| 30 | Police Constable Harry Evans is driving along a country road when he sees strange lights in the sky and an object larger than a bus hovering in the road ahead of him . |