Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] when [pron] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Course then he finished , they finished dredging at night on , at nineteen thirty two cos they said it was costing too much the did and erm they were building some new cranes down there , so I said to my father , and he was very friendly with the Harbourmaster , he said erm was there any chance of getting one of them cranes so when he went and saw the Harbourmaster he said no he said the boy do n't know nothing about electricity either so he said no nor did no other buggers he said they did n't know anything about it so he got the job . |
| 2 | We wish she 'd broken her neck especially when we learn that she 'd planned all along to rip off poor Tess 's best idea . |
| 3 | Well I was just tidying myself up , och just a week lick of lipstick and a puffa blusher basically when I noticed that my mascara was on its last legs so I had to remind myself to stop by at Frazers Innoxa counter as any other tearproof bar theirs brings me out in lumps , so to cut a long story short I just nicked in the sidedoor — honest to god I was festooned with carriers laden down like a workhouse donkey — and I 'd to cut through the shoe department . |
| 4 | Even those few are now being bled dry by charges and commissions just when they thought that they had entered the land of milk and honey . |
| 5 | Fieldhouse drives the point home when he argues that ‘ between 1945 and 1951 Britain exploited those dependencies that were politically unable to defend their own interests in more ways and with more serious consequences than at any time since overseas colonies were established ’ . |
| 6 | I met him two or three years later when I asked if he would make me a dress for the March of Dimes , using some peony pink silk that Winston brought back from China . |
| 7 | John Major made a perceptive observation a few days ago when he declared that he found many people to be cross , rather than angry , about the recession . |
| 8 | The Bank of Scotland had frozen the overdraft of Monktonhall Mineworkers Ltd some weeks ago when it emerged that debts of about £1.7 million had accrued . |
| 9 | How the owners of these desirable residences had complained ten years ago when they found that the Garfield Centre was going to be built in their neighbourhood . |
| 10 | Er the , the only good thing to come out of these proposals is that erm that he supports the erm the appearance of the public enquiry and the sale of erm that , that erm he suggests for example that we should try the airports policy consortium , well we dealt that five years ago when we realised that Surrey and it 's surrounding areas were getting their own pressure group organised to make sure that Stansted got all of the flack got all the , got all the few other things as well . |
| 11 | Indeed , there was a period about three years ago when it looked as though even 35mm slides might have found a match with the introduction of devices like the VideoShow system which project the image on the computer 's screen directly onto a conventional viewing screen . |
| 12 | Closing her mind to her mother was a survival skill Dorothy had learned many years ago when she realised that if she did n't look after her , no-one else was going to . |
| 13 | In 1973 Esquire magazine asked a number of famous people where they had been ten years earlier when they heard that John Kennedy was assassinated . |
| 14 | In November 1984 the UKCC addressed the professions directly when it published and circulated the second edition of the Code . |
| 15 | Such a policy was first suggested over a decade ago when it seemed that a Polytechnics Central Council on Admissions , styled PCCA and doubtless pronounced ‘ Pukka ’ , would not be inappropriate . |
| 16 | Almost all animals are either in danger of being eaten by other animals or in danger of failing to eat other animals , and an enormous number of detailed facts about animals makes sense only when we remember that they are the end-products of long and bitter arms races . |
| 17 | I will argue later in Chapter 6 that powerless groups are not a small minority especially when we realize that the cherished pattern of lifetime employment applies to barely 30 per cent of labour , within which there are only a tiny percentage of women . |
| 18 | Her mother had had a beautiful voice both when she sang and when she talked . |
| 19 | This is a worrying trend particularly when one considers that the experts at DDRC can not as yet offer an explanation . |
| 20 | He charges scientists and corporations involved in it with basic misrepresentation especially when they claim that the techniques are no more than sophisticated extensions of classical breeding skills . |
| 21 | Douglas was annoyed at this arrival of Leslie 's contingent but changed his tune suddenly when he heard that there was still no sign of the enemy encampment being alarmed . |
| 22 | More importantly , by giving the impression that the government 's control-room department is neither flustered nor panicky , his confident , self-possessed performance has bolstered the prime minister 's own position just when she needed that support most . |
| 23 | It was slightly over a year later when we felt that conditions were suitable for another attempt . |
| 24 | CAN ANYBODY be expected to take the Deputy Director of Wirral Social Services seriously when he suggests that feeding curry to toddlers will help them counteract the evils of racism ? |