Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] when [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadie would raid the bins for scraps when she could — perhaps her diet of rabbits needed to be supplemented . |
| 2 | because I can imagine , looking at rehearsals , what we need are a few sort of easy things to start and end rehearsals with , or for rehearsals when we 're a bit thin on the ground , er |
| 3 | He replied that there was n't , but that I should have asked for Operations when I got to Porto . |
| 4 | It ca n't help that he is fretting about possessions when he should be worrying about the state of his marriage . |
| 5 | We looked at it for ages when it was dead . |
| 6 | It was a hot afternoon and the first one for ages when his time had been his own until bedtime . |
| 7 | Stevens was playing for Spurs when he became a victim of a Vinnie Jones tackle which eventually ended his career . |
| 8 | Stevens was playing for Spurs when he became a victim of a Vinnie Jones tackle which eventually ended his career and he said : ‘ If players are dragging matters through the courts it ca n't be good publicity for the game . |
| 9 | ‘ We were still treated as kids when we were in the third year , well , we still are . ’ |
| 10 | The new fifth television channel , wherever it is situated , will open up further opportunities for programme-makers when it starts up at the end of 1993 . |
| 11 | It is also for presents when it is somebody 's birthday or Christmas . |
| 12 | The debate should not endlessly be about tactics , it becomes self-defeating to go on and on and on wrangling about tactics when it is the motivation behind those tactics that holds the key . |
| 13 | Er he gives them a lot of moral support and in their blast off parties when they 're ready to go out and conduct the missile competition , er he really stirs the pot and gets the guys moving . |
| 14 | THE Duchess of York yesterday left cancer-stricken Polish children lost for words when she handed out copies of her Budgie books in English . |
| 15 | They told us it was gon na be a land fit fer 'eroes when we got back from France , but they soon changed their tune . |
| 16 | Another thing : not enough men would be in the middle waiting for crosses when they came and like I said before the crosses were mostly aiming for heads — or for Deano 's head . |
| 17 | The real problems which undrained land presents to farmers have justified drainage during periods when we have been short of food . |
| 18 | On broadleaved woods in the uplands , the CC suggest that ‘ MAFF grant rules be revised to allow broadleaved woods to be included in HLCA calculations during periods when they are enclosed to allow regeneration ’ . |
| 19 | Had Kenneth Grahame known about seaplanes when he wrote Wind in the Willows that is what Toad would have said . |
| 20 | Parke B. , at p. 630 , concluded that the payment ‘ was not voluntary , because , in effect , the defendant told the plaintiff 's clerk , that if he did not pay for certificates when he wanted to make extracts , he should not be permitted to search . ’ |
| 21 | This can be difficult initially for parents when they are not used to doing it , but after a little practice and getting over their embarrassment it starts to flow more easily . |
| 22 | I am not surprised that the Minister has not mentioned redundancy payments for miners when they are closing pits willy-nilly . |
| 23 | Why are they worried about wardrobes when they 're getting married all they need 's a bed . |
| 24 | Kragan had the coffees waiting for Kaas when he arrived . |
| 25 | The Modular Examinations Committee uses the ‘ 21 rule ’ in considering the eligibility of students to continue for honours when they arrive at the end of the third year with less than 18 passes . |
| 26 | ‘ I was on my way home from New York with my brother Simon after a scouting mission for models when I spotted her at the airport with her father . |
| 27 | It is a well known fact that designers plant a line of bollards when they do not know what to do . |
| 28 | Employing the same double-delta wing shape as the Lockheed design , originally pioneered by the SAAB Draken , the Tu–144 suffered the most public of tragedies when it crashed at the Paris Air Show . |
| 29 | The price you pay for being able to chew when you are young is that you will run out of teeth when you are old . |
| 30 | Corporate executives contemplating the possibility of being required to commit corporate crimes know that they face a regulatory agency which for the most part will be unable to detect what is going on , and in the minority of cases when it does , it will have no heart and few resources to pursue the matter into the criminal courts . |