Example sentences of "[noun sg] when [pron] [adv] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The children are allowed to sit up and watch the programme when it finally goes out ( Howard has bought a small portable television set for the occasion ) . |
| 2 | In the case of a thief , he will find he has been relieved of his own purse when he finally manages to jettison his passenger . |
| 3 | The Cheshire cat is an odd character and he causes confusion when he literally disappears into thin air . |
| 4 | One difference between theft and handling is that the bona fide purchaser of goods is not guilty of theft when he later discovers that they were stolen ( s.3(2) ) . |
| 5 | So often , when a company introduces a new model , there follows a wave of disappointment when it invariably fails to break any new ground . |
| 6 | Financial services is a lucrative business when one actually succeeds in organising the finance , endowment policies , term policies and so on . |
| 7 | It is common practice to put a battery on charge when it still has some life in it . |
| 8 | This effort to keep a clear conception of its own nature before it is the mental side of the human psyche when it genuinely acts in the world and is not merely subject to external or internal forces . |
| 9 | They were at an age when one often does not like eating very much ; and the Greeks , a poor race with memories of starvation , like their children to be well fed , and to be seen to be well fed . |
| 10 | The roar of applause when it later rids itself of them may boost its popularity at a critical moment . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , Olshan stretches belief when he then introduces Susan 's sister Tina , a virtuoso pianist now in psychiatric care , whose marriage , too , verges on disintegration . |
| 12 | It is more important in simpler forms of learning such as skill learning when it usually means repetition . |
| 13 | She has to do so , what 's more , at a time in her life when she probably feels at her least competent and worthwhile . |
| 14 | However , the adventurers ' problem is not how to get it to do their bidding , but simply how to evade its fury when it finally escapes centuries of unwilling bondage . |
| 15 | She , lately returned from India , has known much sorrow and can instantly understand this love when she eventually suspects it . |
| 16 | PRINCE Edward celebrates 25 years of the International Boat Show when he officially opens the event in Southampton today . |
| 17 | PRINCE Edward celebrated 25 years of the International Boat Show when he officially opens the event in Southampton . |
| 18 | If confusion and resentment are to be avoided the change-over must be simple to understand and must have been heralded so far in advance that it is almost an anti-climax when it finally comes . |
| 19 | ICL 's Corporate Systems Division in Manchester is expected to reveal further details of the parallel system when it formally announces a commercial agreement for the Chorus technology — already used in the EDS project — next week or soon after . |
| 20 | Still prefers to work by himself — a trait of which he is aware , but one that could make him retreat into a bubble when he most needs help . |
| 21 | ( 7 ) Proceedings relating to matters mentioned in subsection ( 2 ) above , including voting in connection therewith , shall be held in public , but a licensing board may retire to consider its decision in any such matter and the clerk of the board shall accompany the board when it so retires unless the board otherwise directs . |
| 22 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence when he now expects to place the order for the fourth Trident submarine . |
| 23 | Easy enough to keep open house when someone else pays , is n't it ? |
| 24 | Furthermore , it is in my view , that in writing this letter , the Chief Whip seriously abuses the power of his office when he actively tries to influence the electorate in Winchester and Alton . |