Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun] when [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's hard with family to pull the wool over their eyes emotionally because they have seen you go through all sorts of things when you are growing up . ’ |
| 2 | Then this would never have happened , or if it had ( I could n't bring myself to unwish an experience which still washed over me with waves of delight when I remembered it ) at least Toby would have known what he was doing , his eyes would have been open . |
| 3 | Connor McCaffrey ( 18 ) was taking the lift to his room at Queen 's University halls of residence when it became stuck between the third and fourth floors . |
| 4 | In the summer of 1967 , Richard Nixon was received with the honours usually reserved for heads of state when he arrived in Bucharest . |
| 5 | They have both been to school and like to speak their few words of English when their elders are not looking . ) |
| 6 | Surely there was an austere pride in the words of Thoreau when he wrote that he was regarded as the least important man in his village , and there is no doubt in my mind that he must have savoured the aroma of that rare emotion . |
| 7 | And he was unable to offer crucial half time words of encouragement when it was already clear Liverpool were confronted by a Russian side in a different class . |
| 8 | The palladium absorbed the hydrogen and , glory be , they found traces of helium when they were finished ! |
| 9 | You may see traces of blood when you brush your teeth . |
| 10 | Similarly Julian was nor afraid to put her own words and reflections onto the lips of Christ when she wrote her book . |
| 11 | Then 6 months of stability when we took over . |
| 12 | In fact , it came as a complete surprise to the hoteliers of Ramsey when they were given notice to quit their premises within six days , leaving behind ‘ all furniture , bedding , linen , cutlery , crockery and utensils ’ . |
| 13 | There is nothing more annoying than unintentionally digging up groups of bulbs when they are dormant . |
| 14 | The crucial point about the CICB was not the source of its power but the fact that the function it was performing was very similar to the ( public ) function performed by courts of law when they award damages in tort for personal injuries . |
| 15 | Daniel Omara Atubu was reportedly badly beaten after his arrest and showed physical signs of ill-treatment when he appeared in court . |
| 16 | Well it 's not as if you 've like come into loads of money when you suddenly turn sixteen is it ? |
| 17 | There are times of course when we get very busy , there are times when we get slack . |
| 18 | There were fun times of course when he got his revenge . |
| 19 | As noted earlier in this chapter , and by many authors , including Kanter ( 1983 ) , an attempt to change basic ideologies/schemas of multiple parties is more likely to be successful in times of crisis when it becomes obvious that traditional modes of operation are no longer achieving success . |
| 20 | No-one can have shown Americans round cities such as London , Brighton or Bristol and not been subjected to gasps of horror when they see the depredation wrought on them by ill-sited high buildings and demolished streets . |
| 21 | And it 's a fair bet that not a few of them will rouse hoots of laughter or gasps of admiration when you show them off to you friends . |
| 22 | There were times during the long hours of dark when he did drop into an uneasy doze , but never for more than a few minutes together . |
| 23 | Were they really ruling huge areas of land when my family 's ambitions were for nothing grander than the next meal and the work to pay for it ? |
| 24 | People hold speculative balances of money when they anticipate that interest rates will rise ( security prices will fall ) . |
| 25 | You can adopt two lines of approach when you start a new business . |
| 26 | In 1920 Birkenhead put forward both lines of argument when he argued for greater coalition cooperation in the press . |
| 27 | In the early 1980s Astra suspended clinical trials of omeprazole when it was found that high doses of the drug caused cancer of the stomach lining in rats . |
| 28 | The problems within the dramatic fiction are dealt with as they arise ; the teacher tries to keep the focus , intervenes as necessary and ensures that there are periods of reflection when everyone can consider carefully the meaning and significance of what has happened . |
| 29 | Much of the learning that takes place in drama does so in periods of reflection when we are given time to consider our actions . |
| 30 | All they ever saw of their guide was a faint distant tail-light , and then only rarely , at irregular moments after long periods of doubt when it seemed that they had lost the scent , made the wrong decision at some unmarked junction up in the stormy darkness . |