Example sentences of "rare [noun] when [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having suffered a rare whitewash when they met in last season 's Asian Open qualifiers , the world champion was relieved to clinch a 1-0 lead in their Humo European Open quarter-final . |
| 2 | It must be a rare occasion when you meet a man who does not want you in his bed . ’ |
| 3 | Villains snatched the rare bird when they entered Cockerton Aquatics in Darlington , using a spare key taken from a car two weeks earlier . |
| 4 | On the rare occasions when we went away for a fortnight — to my grandfather 's dank cottage on the Welsh border , land of the slate grey sky — I could hardly wait to get back and listen to the two-weeks ' worth of messages crammed on my answering machine . |
| 5 | In the main , however , policing continues to be publicly concerned to prevent and detect individual attempts to steal the property of the citizen and it suits the police 's purpose for their community role to be well broadcast , for on those rare occasions when they have expanded their controls to include the activities of the middle classes , they have found themselves on less certain ground . |
| 6 | She was two years older than him , and a thousand miles away at a girls ' school in Gloucestershire , and on the rare occasions when they met he hardly dared even speak to her ; but Richard was always in love with someone and his passions were all the more intense for being largely fantasy . |
| 7 | He was a shadowy figure from the past whose name was scarcely ever mentioned except on those rare occasions when they spoke of the accident , that terrible accident that had claimed the lives of him and her mother when Harriet was only four years old . |
| 8 | This option was , however , never used without the agreement of the chairmen , and then only on those rare occasions when they felt it would help secure acceptance of unpopular measures by their colleagues and the broader public . |
| 9 | On the rare occasions when they were doing work comparable to men 's , women were regularly paid less . |
| 10 | He listened to complaints , resolved disagreements on the rare occasions when they arose , encouraged the young and humoured the old — all this with unruffled composure . |
| 11 | On the rare occasions when you stumble on a pub whose ‘ chef ’ has qualifications beyond O-level microwaving , the surprise is so pleasant that you are guaranteed a feel-good eating experience that few established restaurants can match . |
| 12 | On the rare occasions when he went with Buddie to the house in Lansdowne Place , he must always say he was not hungry and refuse any food she offered him , just in case it was poisoned . |
| 13 | Not surprisingly , against this background , family relationships were very strained and Gary was so unpopular that on the rare occasions when he did behave appropriately it went unnoticed and unattended to , which meant he was only getting attention for antisocial behaviour . |
| 14 | On the rare occasions when he consented to do interviews , he usually sat silent and still , staring stone-faced at baffled journalists . |
| 15 | One was strange , because it was about an old lady who meant nothing to me at all ; I hardly knew her and only saw her on the rare occasions when I went into her family shop two or three hundred yards from us . |
| 16 | On the rare occasions when I feel moved to write to magazines , it 's usually with my Angry-Of-West-Midlands hat on . |
| 17 | On the rare occasions when I have met television journalists , I have been astonished by the hatred expressed for Adie , as well as by the vitriolic gossip about her , which subsequently proved to be entirely false . |
| 18 | Absolutely nothing except on those rare occasions when I am being praised |
| 19 | My own experience , on the rare occasions when I have actually been asked to produce a short story with my mind totally blank , is that one can tune oneself like the strings of a wind-harp by admitting to one 's mind the desire to write a story and that in that state of receptivity even the oddest , most trivial circumstances will produce a basic idea . |
| 20 | I 've played it fast and loose before , and on the rare occasions when I 've disobeyed orders ( in the Rhineland during the First Crusade , in a little whorehouse in the backstreets of Byzantium , and on a cargo ship bearing perfumes from Punt ) I have come up smelling of roses . |
| 21 | ‘ Usually — on the rare occasions when I take a woman to bed . |
| 22 | On those rare occasions when it slipped out accidentally , her rage was a clear indication of how deeply his carelessness pained her . |
| 23 | There may be rare occasions when it is desirable to emphasise the importance of some decisions by stating specifically that it is the decision of Her Majesty 's Government . |
| 24 | ‘ On rare occasions when it is unbearable , with a jet engine noise screaming inside my head , and combining with other roaring noises , I take sleeping pills and try to go back to sleep . |
| 25 | I am the first person to admit that success is not that frequent at Athletico and on those rare occasions when it comes we are always left with a nasty aftertaste to spoil it . |
| 26 | Normally , although his massive body dwarfed her own , he showed her consideration in his bed , but she knew from the rare occasions when it had happened before that drinking heavily coarsened his sexual appetites . |
| 27 | But still , on the bus going to and from school , on her steady , daily runs in the park , swimming , weight-lifting , doing her exercises , and on those other rare occasions when she was alone and free from the demands of school , State , and family , Erika found herself thinking of Fritz , although what she thought she scarcely knew herself , except that she knew that she blushed when she did so … . |