Example sentences of "when [pron] was [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ You must be exhausted , ’ he immediately suggested , when she was nothing of the kind . |
| 2 | ‘ When she was nothing but a child herself . |
| 3 | When there was nothing but ash he could crumble with a stick he went back up to his room . |
| 4 | Rafeedie dismissed the case against Alvarez as " the wildest speculation " and rebuked the DEA for having been complicit in the abduction of Alvarez when there was nothing but circumstantial evidence to suggest that he had participated in Camarena 's torture or death . |
| 5 | For those of my readers who have a taste for figures , we produced 7½ kilowatts when there was plenty of water , which there usually was in our climate . |
| 6 | Since I said , why send money to Great Ormond Street when there was plenty of children 's things local ? |
| 7 | as she always does , since I said why send money to Great Ormond Street when there was plenty of children locally ? |
| 8 | After a week Harry returned to Maurice , once again when there was no-one on the boat , took away his consignment of hairdryers , and threw the lantern and the paving-stones overboard . |
| 9 | Stephen was constantly telling her to think before she spoke , particularly when it was none of her business . |
| 10 | Indeed , despite his disillusion with the present reality and underneath the modest ambition he communicated to Rohde , he cherished an almost missionary hope that if and when he was himself in a position to exert influence , the future of his subject might look altogether different . |