Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Still getting angry when someone throws some truth in your face ? ’ he jeered . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | The case for this is argued by Jo Stephens ( 1989 ) ( CEO for Oxfordshire ) , when she characterises this partnership of LEA and school as ‘ looking with ’ rather than ‘ looking at ’ , and ‘ doing with ’ rather ‘ doing to ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ How can you want Spain mixed up in such great events ’ , Aranda complained to the Prussian Minister , ‘ when she lacks all means to wage war . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Urwin recognizes that dominant ideas of good motherhood appeal to women 's fantasies , but she endorses feminist prescriptiveness about maternity when she pictures these fantasies as mainly pernicious and restricting . |
| 8 | Yeah she 's , she 's got it plugged into phone socket on wall and when she buys these things it 's got a and it goes |
| 9 | It is her responsibility to feed the chicks and keep them warm — she rarely leaves the nest when she has tiny offspring . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | There are very pressured days , says Jackie , when she has several visits as well a clinic , when she goes up every front path praying both mum and babe will be problem-free . |
| 12 | When she retires next month , challenging behaviour will be only one of the many items she will have been able to put a tick next to on the learning difficulties agenda , although she would the last to claim there is nothing left to do . |
| 13 | We shall see later that when one combines general relativity with the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics , it is possible for both space and time to be finite without any edges or boundaries . |
| 14 | When one takes monkeys evolved for tree-top living and puts them in gravel-floored cages on the ground where they are constantly exposed to faeces , when one mixes three species of macaque in one cage , as was done at the New England centre , the stress factors multiply . |
| 15 | When one passes such messages back to one 's constituents , they say , ’ Who will do something to stop this nuisance , which is causing enormous problems not only to me but to the whole area ? ’ |
| 16 | When one considers those settlements left undefended , it becomes evident that the choice was dictated by military and administrative considerations , rather than the protection of communities , however considerable in size and number . |
| 17 | When one notes that Jaguar 's pre-tax profits for the first half of 1989 had slumped to £1.4 million , it is easy to see that a company valuation of £1.6 billion might be considered rather high . |
| 18 | When one uses some expression , such as ‘ I 'm going to the bank ’ , there are usually not two things , one that one is saying and one that one is thinking . |
| 19 | The need for such a sketch is obvious when one recalls that ritual and ritualistic ideas can make sense only when taken in reference to a total structure of thought and system of social and historical reality ( most of which I shall , of course , be able only to touch on here ) . |
| 20 | this man managing , almost single-handed , a country as large as Scotland ; when one sees that man , living in a leaky mud hut , holding , by the sway of his personality , the balance even between fiercely antagonistic races , in a land which would cover half a dozen of the large English counties ; when one sees the marvels accomplished by tact , passionate interest and self-control , with utterly inadequate means , in continuous personal discomfort , short-handed , on poor pay , out here in Northern Nigeria — then one feels that permanent evil can not ultimately evolve from so much admirable work accomplished , and that the end must be good . |
| 21 | I THOUGHT it was terrific when David JoHansen of the New York Dolls delivered such quips a : ‘ Who cares about the music when one has such sense of drama ? ’ and , ‘ We do n't play too good but we can dance as bad as we want , ’ and ‘ We do n't hold concerts — we throw parties ! ’ , and ‘ It does n't bother us when people say that we ca n't play , when we met we actually could n't , ’ etc , etc , but all these sweeping statements were launched in 1973 , and when those same epigrams are repeated three years later by lesser mortals ( i.e. Sex Pistols , Runaways , Ramones and Kiss ) , things begin to look synthetic . |
| 22 | When one finds defenceless prey , others will soon come . |
| 23 | The inroads made into the male strongholds are small , but the progress is remarkable when one sets sixty years now against preceding millennia in which western world women only existed in a family and under male domination . |
| 24 | This view is enforced when one remembers that investment lead times — that is , the period between basic investment in assets and the time when the product shows up as profitable in the company accounts — can be quite long . |
| 25 | When one provides any care , whether it is managing a group of patients , or bathing one patient , the following skills are demonstrated — social skills , management skills , communication skills , and practical skills . |
| 26 | ‘ Such odd things determine why and when one makes that kind of decision . |
| 27 | At a time when the school curriculum is becoming increasingly prescriptive , when there seems less flexibility than there used to be , it might seem difficult to set up collaborative teaching projects . |
| 28 | The government , when it spends this £1 billion , pays with cheques drawn on its account at the Bank of England . |
| 29 | ( a ) The welfare principle Under s1(1) of the Act the child 's welfare must be the court 's paramount consideration when it determines any question relating to a child 's upbringing . |
| 30 | When it meets real resistance the army will recoil and break . ’ |