Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [adv] [verb] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was told by others that Benny really laughed when he got that fax . |
| 2 | She hung his jacket on a hanger on the hat-and-coat fixture next to the deerstalker hat that Sebastian invariably donned when he went out , but which he had left behind when he 'd gone to India . |
| 3 | Jane Ashton was a slim girl , with short , soft hair curling around a face so pleasant that people automatically smiled when they met her . |
| 4 | It was halfway through a brilliant performance that Lowell scarcely heard when he remembered the present he 'd bought her . |
| 5 | If it is true that kings only legislated when faced with an urgent need to enhance their standing with their subjects by prestigious acts of law-making , the appearance of royal codes of law in Kent and Wessex at this time may reflect something of the very considerable crisis through which these regions had recently passed . |
| 6 | ‘ As a teacher I have observed that children truly learn when they try to solve questions which they themselves ask . |
| 7 | ‘ I am thinking that maybe these gentlemen have been to one English Wine Shop , ’ said Dr Haidar , speaking in that slightly sanctimonious tone that Muslims sometimes adopt when discussing alcohol . |
| 8 | It is often said that penalties automatically follow when blood appears following a facial attack , but this is an over-simplification . |
| 9 | This last qualification was not unimportant , and violence sometimes ensued when cattle thieves were caught in the act . |
| 10 | Business and pleasure only mix when you 're wielding the cocktail shaker . |
| 11 | Typically , Stan and Ollie never fought when out on walks away from home . |
| 12 | The most serious swings and cart-wheels usually occur when the wind gets under the wing-tip so that the down wind tip scrapes along the ground . |
| 13 | We seem to be working really well as a unit and things really gel when we write together . |
| 14 | Scorpions seldom go out of their way to attack people and accidents usually happen when scorpions are trodden on . |
| 15 | At least 34 Rohingya Muslims were killed and scores more injured when Burmese troops opened fire on a congregation in Arakan province , according to refugees arriving in neighbouring Bangladesh in the last two days . |
| 16 | AT LEAST 34 Rohingya Muslims were killed and scores more injured when Burmese troops opened fire on a Muslim religious congregation in Arakan province , according to Burmese refugees arriving in neighbouring Bangladesh in the last two days . |
| 17 | Extensive calcareous flowstone and stalactite deposits are developed at spring discharge points in fractured bituminous limestones and combustion-metamorphosed marbles : the ground water is saturated with calcium hydroxide , with the consequence that calcite and aragonite rapidly precipitate when it comes into contact with atmospheric carbon dioxide . |
| 18 | Each year one or two farmers are killed and others seriously injured when their tractors roll over . |
| 19 | But seneschals still itinerated when they arrived in the duchy to take up office — receiving oaths from the king-duke 's Gascon subjects and swearing a reciprocal oath to them . |
| 20 | But peasants also complained when what they called ‘ doctors ’ came out to inspect their cattle and sanitary arrangements , or when two peasants who had murdered their wives had to be handed over to a visiting ‘ social court ’ ( obshchestvennyi sud ) set up by a shefstvo team . |
| 21 | There has been a dramatic increase in knee injuries since the '70s , when it was more common to break a leg ; serious knee sprains , probably involving torn ligaments , are at least ten times more likely than broken legs — mainly because bindings now release when they are meant to and boots give greater support to the lower leg and ankle . |
| 22 | They had not forgotten or become confused but seemed to have jumped ahead , as adults often find when resuming studies after a break . |
| 23 | If in Murder in the Cathedral he had chosen a particular martyrdom which functioned as a bloody , savage ritual , then in the plays which followed , connections with primitive ritual would be clearer — if anything , as Eliot later feared when thinking of The Family Reunion , too clear , the primitive outline getting in the way of the Christian story . |