Example sentences of "of [noun] when [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'VE been told I retain a lot of moisture when I eat . |
| 2 | He had been delighted to the point of euphoria when she had bought the Victorian clothes . |
| 3 | It is a well known fact that designers plant a line of bollards when they do not know what to do . |
| 4 | I when I see him when I see , George does a lot of housekeeping when I see him clearing the bed I say oh goodness look book . |
| 5 | In any long-standing power relationship the person or group losing each conflict must have interests which are suppressed , and either do not appear in the public realm or quickly founder for lack of support when they do materialize . |
| 6 | But I thought Ian might need a bit of support when he gets out . ’ |
| 7 | it 's a matter of look when you go in the market |
| 8 | Unpleasant and smelly as the operation was , she felt a surge of exultation when she cut the thread of the last suture and surveyed her unconscious patient . |
| 9 | ALEXANDER Dubcek won world fame as a symbol of hope when he headed the illfated ‘ Prague Spring ’ reform that was crushed by Soviet tanks in August 1968 . |
| 10 | ‘ I know he was very wrong to rob me but I 'm grateful he had a change of heart when I took ill . |
| 11 | However , Moon has a change of heart when he sees the place , and later , after a night spent drinking hallucinatory ayahuasca , parachutes in alone , strips off his clothes , and persuades the Indians to accept him . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She fell into the world of photography when she stumbled by chance across some equipment in the cupboard of her student flat . |
| 15 | It means you 'll lose a bit of paintwork when you do the job but very u most often you can get it all back together with a few flakes of paint missing . |
| 16 | The answer to that was made plain to him with a stab of dread when he ventured to peer out of his embrasure , for the tall figure was already at the top of the staircase and advancing silently and at leisure along the stone corridor . |
| 17 | In another room they had a stroke of luck when they came across a large paper bag of fruit , a couple of packets of biscuits , a tin of shortbread , a jar of butterscotch and an unopened bottle of Johnnie Walker whisky . |
| 18 | Zborowski had a stroke of luck when he came back . |
| 19 | A vice-principal of a teachers ' university probably spoke on behalf of many party members in positions of responsibility when he said that some young comrades lacked the ‘ backbone of Marxism-Leninism ’ , especially those studying liberal arts subjects . |
| 20 | The neighbouring RAF bases at Bentwaters and Woodbridge in Suffolk , to be vacated by the U.S. Air Force next year , will not be required by the Ministry of Defence when it takes over full control of the sites . |
| 21 | On other occasions committees have been generally in support of government action but have urged that it be undertaken more vigorously : the Defence Committee has been critical of the Ministry of Defence when it has spent less than the sums provided in the annual estimates . |
| 22 | And as there are four times as many outbreaks in the home than in hotels , takeaways and restaurants etc , it is clear that the domestic kitchen is the last line of defence when it comes to food hygiene . |
| 23 | Non-cooperation , as Gandhi understands it , does not always have to be an act of love in the same way as satyāgraha has to be , but it is in act of love and consequently a branch of satyāgraha when it seeks to promote the good of a wrongdoer . |
| 24 | It was the course of action set by the Duke of Windsor when he quit the throne to marry Wallis Simpson . |
| 25 | Burglars caused £2,000 worth of damage when they broke into a greengrocers ' shop in Castlegate , Thirsk , and stole £45 in cash . |
| 26 | Burglars caused £2,000 worth of damage when they broke into a greengrocers ' shop in Castlegate , Thirsk , and stole £45 in cash . |
| 27 | Spence later caused £681 worth of damage when he jumped up and down on an Escort . |
| 28 | So the word is that the best bet is on the appointment of another academic ( Sir Roger himself , though just due to become president of the Publishers Association , is expected to return to his chair of physics when he retires from the press in the summer ) . |
| 29 | His family claim he was badly concussed and the RAF were guilty of negligence when they allowed him to make the second jump . |
| 30 | The mighty Grand Hotel of 1863 and the rows of Victorian terraces tell of a different type of resort when it became Yorkshire 's equivalent to Lancashire 's Blackpool . |