Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] [conj] [det] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | More especially , I wondered at their risk when I learnt that some of them had landed across the Channel and were astonished to find that the natives did not speak English . |
| 2 | When I say that some of them take [ women compositors ] to be wives , there can not be ill-feeling toward them " . |
| 3 | The circle of radar is especially useful when you consider that most of their lives are spent in open water . |
| 4 | She looked young and pretty and relaxed for the first part of the evening until a ghastly sense of anti-climax set in when she realized that many of the young English guests had arrived well watered and rowdy after their coach trip , soon to become hideously drunk on the Ashley 's generous provision of champagne and wine , with a few dainty canapés and other elegant nibbles . |
| 5 | Prince later wrote to Gould when he was in Australia , complaining that Alfred Newton had been ‘ far , far too complimentary ’ about Lear 's part in the publication , ‘ particularly when we know that most of the subscribers are of the opinion that his plates are almost the only exceptionable part of your work . ’ |
| 6 | This is still true when he says that some of the respondents lacked the emotional maturity to respond adequately to poetry . |
| 7 | Recalling a symposium held at St. Louis in 1961 , the distinguished organic chemist Herbert C. Brown has commented on the reaction when he suggested that many of the proposed nonclassical structures for carbonium ions had weak experimental support . |
| 8 | When he hinted that some of their dealings might be — well — confidential , no-one at the meeting asked questions . |