Example sentences of "[noun pl] when [pron] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 His lips were still purse on the last words when they suddenly sprang wide as he saw her almost stagger back from him , her hand to her throat , the colour draining from her face .
2 They stung , as they were meant to , and there were tears in her eyes when he roughly turned her over .
3 But who can tell the damage we do to our writing voices when we roughly silence them for long stretches ?
4 Meanwhile , the quality of golf from Cheshire 's youngsters when they only lost 9–8 to the experienced Bromborough seniors was testimony to the coaching they are receiving from the county 's two professional teachers Alan Thompson ( Heswall ) and Peter Barber ( Didsbury ) .
5 Meanwhile , the quality of golf from Cheshire 's youngsters when they only lost 9–8 to the experienced Bromborough seniors was testimony to the coaching they are receiving from the county 's two professional teachers Alan Thompson ( Heswall ) and Peter Barber ( Didsbury ) .
6 Neumann again oversimplifies matters when he uniformly equates Tempo di Menuetto with Allegretto , or his conception of it , which he claims to mean ‘ relaxed ease ’ and to have been ‘ anything but fast ’ .
7 I can just put them down , but I do n't awfully like gladioli when they down I do n't think they look like .
8 The sources , who have seen Viking in action , say that the thing works , and may even perform ahead of expectations when it eventually sees the light of day .
9 His troops were left outside that city throughout the entire bitter winter of 1942–1943 , resulting in the loss of a quarter of a million German troops when they eventually surrendered to the Russians on 2nd , February 1943 .
10 He said : ‘ We have struggled all season to find the right guy but Lloyd Davies came up trumps when it really mattered . ’
11 What emerged , aside from the technology , which has been widely previewed ( summary inside ) , was a seminal move by USL president Roel Pieper to unify the industry around a desktop Unix to challenge Microsoft Corp NT — threatening to sweep the boards when it finally arrives .
12 I know I was sadder than at the end of most commissions when we finally broke up the team in the refreshment room of Waterloo Station after we had left the ship in Southampton .
13 ‘ Then if there 's time she wants a ‘ Guess the Weight ’ cake making as well — I 've got to make it look as if it weighs five pounds when it really weighs ten . ’
14 I erm unfortunately , er , agree with the previous speaker that a very strong calvinistic streak runs through me and I believe in the two parent family and also in the efforts that you should make to keep the family ge together , but I think too , there 's sp , er , perceptions of individuals and particularly , younger generations now in society , are so much different from my own perceptions when I initially became married and started my own family but what society has to look at the perceptions and expectations of the individuals in society .
15 We have to face the problems when they actually come upon us .
16 Well , that does n't sound very sophisticated to say , these are the questions when you just write everything you know about a particular issue .
17 ‘ Once with a favouring wind , and once with reinforcements when he most needed them .
18 Mattessons When it really matters .
19 A niece of the former Labour minister Douglas Jay and first cousin of Peter Jay , the former British ambassador in Washington who is now the BBC 's economics editor , her ratings went up in certain quarters when she once said of Mrs Thatcher : ‘ She is not the sort of person one would invite to dinner . ’
20 ‘ They will soon see a pattern emerge and this will help them identify situations when they habitually smoke , ’ he said .
21 The mistakes are made in investment terms when you actually rush at something , and you decide to go ahead and invest before you 've really studied all the options .
22 It was one of those debates when nobody else turns up , but on a more serious note I 'm concerned that the th th the problems and we 've had them here in North Yorkshire caused by terrorism in Northern Ireland and whilst debating Northern Ireland erm there were very few .
23 Wonderful Wang WORLD champion Wang Junxia fulfilled her ambition to become the first woman to run under 30 minutes for the 10,000 metres when she today slashed an astonishing 42 seconds off the world record .
24 So often we give children pat , reassuring answers when we really have all sorts of unanswered questions ourselves .
25 There were several contemporary examples of similar patriarchal claims by the archbishops of Hamburg , Lyons , and Milan ; Lanfranc may have been inspired by these examples when he vigorously supported the Canterbury claim to patriarchal authority over the whole of the British Isles .
26 Next it was against the Swedes when it really counted in the European championship .
27 We calculate that on an estimate of what we think has happened to employment in the quarter erm and that calculation tells us , and it seems to be re reasonably right in the sense that it 's got a , a good tr a good record of tracking erm the official numbers when they eventually come out .
28 But I 'll never forget how good she was to me all through the war , took so much off my hands when I just could n't cope .
29 I assumed a sphinx-like smile , as though my present situation were part of a long-term career strategy which would yield staggering results when it finally matured .
30 us running away from the tents when there about to collapse
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