Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] when [pron] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thinks he has saved for his holiday — a fallacy that is exposed only when he tries to redeem those bits of paper against an empty spending account . |
| 2 | The embarrassed silence which followed was broken only when everyone turned to watch as the Simonova 's bay tractor beams started to draw the most recently captured platform through the force field . |
| 3 | ‘ I tend to get carried away when I 've drunk a wee bit too much . |
| 4 | she had said so when they had discussed his teeth . |
| 5 | Penelope Fitzgerald 's prose is as clear as glass , and you realise how much she has n't said only when you stop laughing . |
| 6 | Once in the Essoldo Cinema a lad had moved away when he 'd done no more than offer him a piece of chocolate in the darkness . |
| 7 | As we have seen already when we have to cope with a large number of losses in a short time , it becomes much harder to deal with the grief that we feel . |
| 8 | So troubled was he for a girl who , after all , was of age , high-spirited and clever , that after she had gone , and Matey had answered reflectively when he had asked her if she knew where McAllister was going , ‘ I do n't know . |
| 9 | In the case of the sociological positivists , this reluctance applied even when they did become involved in the analysis of the operation of penal institutions — when the ‘ sociology of the prison blossomed in the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's my turn to bath the kids , ’ Julie had said firmly when they 'd returned early this evening from spending the day on a nearby beach . |
| 11 | Many countries , mainly those in the civil law tradition , have made this declaration , including Belgium , Czechoslovakia , Egypt , France , Germany , Luxembourg , Norway , Portugal , Seychelles and Turkey ( but not Italy ) ; accordingly an attempt to serve process via a United States Vice-Consul in the German Federal Republic has been held to be ineffective and the Netherlands Ministry of External Affairs was held to have acted properly when it refused to accept a document intended for service via the diplomatic channel on a defendant in France . |
| 12 | It 's alright , I 'll know how many you 've got anyway when you start buying them . |
| 13 | The carer must ensure that the patient is cleaned thoroughly when he has finished . |
| 14 | It was Bill Shankly 's super team of the 60s who were feared most when they 'd lost . |
| 15 | Father 's parting present to us was a beautiful large lobster he and one of the boys had brought home when they went to pull up their lobster pots . |
| 16 | In my view there was indeed an inconsistency here , though it was an inconsistency which Friedman only recognized implicitly when he started putting forward an alternative model , radically different from his accelerationist hypothesis , which denied any direct role for aggregate demand in influencing the level of employment . |
| 17 | One was my convict , and the other was the man who had run away when I had seen him near the shelter . |
| 18 | She had no idea why he had telephoned her , though she did n't put it out of the realms of possibility that , having gone away when he 'd promised to think about the interview , he might well have rung to suggest some alternative . |
| 19 | Needing the number of a firm in Guildford ( Candy Domestic Equipment ) I had waited for five minutes for the inquiry people to answer , been cut short when I attempted to give the address and then handed out two minutes of silence . |
| 20 | According to Richard Baxter , for example , it led to the arrogance of ‘ idle boys who tear out all the hard leaves of their books and say they have learned all when they have learned the rest ’ . |
| 21 | You 're not often disorganised so when you have to backtrack or retrace your steps to do or get something you 've forgotten you wo n't be best pleased . |
| 22 | So he had probably left exactly when he meant to leave , intending to attack Terry Place but being killed himself . |
| 23 | " Nonsense , " the doctor had muttered gruffly when she had attempted to explain her fears to him . |
| 24 | Lisa had wondered uneasily when she 'd awoken on Sunday morning if what had passed between herself and Alexander , on the beach beneath the moonlight , the previous evening might cast an uncomfortable shadow between them . |
| 25 | But since your overhead is usually positively established only when you have gone through your holding rack , the 19 seconds is rounded off to 15 . |