Example sentences of "[noun sg] when [pron] [verb] [noun prp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hon. Friend the Minister for Trade will meet representatives of that industry when he visits Nottingham and will discuss the problems with them . |
| 2 | Lina squealed with delight when she saw Constance and Shelley . |
| 3 | The injury was a severe setback for Roebuck as he had gained a taste of international rugby when he toured France and Canada with the Wallabies at the end of 1989 . |
| 4 | The sequence begins when Cassio , brought to Desdemona by Emilia ( the unwitting intermediary of evil ) , leaves in some embarrassment when he sees Othello and Iago approach : Iago moves from an upper plane ( Signifier ) to a lower ( Signified ) , from perception to interpretation : subtly doubting the former — Was that Cassio leaving your wife ? — so that Othello , who thinks he can trust his own eyes , takes the latter — so guiltily — with it , accepting a — false ! — linguistic sign . |
| 5 | Ron said he spoke for Don when he told Luke that he was a great admirer of his material . |
| 6 | Bismarck exposed Palmerston 's boast when he annexed Schleswig and Holstein in 1864 amid anguished but inconsequential talk of British intervention . |
| 7 | People say things about God that make the task of understanding what they mean very difficult — for instance when they describe God as indefinable . |