Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My 100 metres time did n't improve at all that year , and it took me until September to better my indoor 200 metres best outdoors when I ran 21.6 seconds at Woodford Green . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | my copy of the constitution that I filed away so neatly when I received that months ago . |
| 4 | When I get four weeks ago . |
| 5 | And I always listen when I get crossed lines . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | After all , when I taught these secrets to my art students , they had one eye on their future interview . |
| 8 | On one occasion , I was cycling with my wife at Whipps Cross when I saw two 14-year-olds with their bicycles . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | When I saw those images and heard the Arabic voices in the back-ground I cried . |
| 11 | It helps to put that in a smaller bracket , when I go three times that , minus that . |
| 12 | It was much later on in my thirties and on one occasion even later than that , when I met two men who at different times became very special to me . |
| 13 | I have heard of considerably larger numbers being taken by other people but when I hear such tales I am inclined to wonder how it is that so many can become so jammed together without suffocating in such a small hole . |
| 14 | You were a fine young man once , but now , when I hear these stories , I wonder … |
| 15 | I cringe when I hear those songs these days ; mind you , perhaps one day I 'll be cringing about the songs I 'm writing now … |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | You could use a chronic adulter to actually write it a bit easier but er I did n't know about that when I wrote these slides many many years ago and it 's carried on since . |
| 22 | I was standing motionless by the desk , and gazing vacantly at the letter , when I heard some footsteps outside the door . |
| 23 | This was further demonstrated by the fact that , when I murmured some apologies that I must leave , he insisted on my staying for some tea . |
| 24 | Faldo conceded the French and Belgian Opens when victory seemed a formality and he bristled when I questioned these fallibilities during his march to triumph in the European Open at Sunningdale . |
| 25 | I made this very mistake of criticising the course during one of my medical placements , when I spent eight weeks on a busy medical unit . |
| 26 | When I thought five minutes were up I decided to give him another five . |
| 27 | He looked very doubtful when I asked certain questions and laughed me to scorn when I gave my verdict . |
| 28 | The brake 's alright , although it was n't on when I put some brakes on |
| 29 | When I left twenty minutes later I felt I had come off with rather the worst of the bargain but another of my father 's aphorisms came to mind : shnorrers no choosers . |
| 30 | What I meant was when I said five proposals |