Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] when [pers pn] [be] [adv] " in BNC.

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1	He stopped climbing only when he was too exhausted to climb any higher .
2	The on-line help is once again beyond belief , appearing automatically when you are most likely to need it .
3	The most common is the all-too-familiar cystitis — the bladder could be inflamed and JoJo may think it needs emptying even when it is only partly full , with the result that she could be effectively ‘ caught short ’ .
4	He had then sought to usurp him by demanding an EC inquiry into French 's affairs and by getting himself , though contrary to Rule as a non-sailor , elected as Delegate to the 1911 Annual General Meeting with a demand that he should be made Glasgow secretary in French 's place , only breaking away when he was not permitted to attend .
5	And I 'd rather they did something about the service instead of advertising that they 're getting there when they 're patently not . ’
6	Detecting 10 pg of anything is taxing , and doing so when it is effectively ‘ contaminated ’ with a million-fold excess of somewhat similar DNA fragments is even harder .
7	I used to hate coming home when it was almost dark , with ice-cold fingers and toes , feeling miserable because Bessie , the nursemaid , was always scolding me .
8	The important characteristic of an evolutionarily stable strategy , you will remember from earlier chapters , is that it carries on doing well when it is already numerous in the population of strategies .
9	The trains , which were operated by the Gauge ‘ 1 ’ Model Railway Association , were running beautifully when I was there .
10	Varieties can develop behavioural ‘ isolating mechanisms ’ , such as differences in courtship , which prevent interbreeding even when it is genetically possible — but a brief period of physical isolation is needed to allow the populations to develop the differences that will prevent them blending back together again if they come into contact .

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