Example sentences of "when the [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Nothing of the personality of the Spirit as embodied in Jesus will be lost when the disciples come to experience him as Paraclete .
2 The famous sequence when the helicopters gather in the sky before the great attack has music with it — very familiar music ! — but , do you know , I was so gripped by the power of Coppola 's image , the helicopters , the music , that it was n't until many , many hours afterwards that I realized what the music was he had been using .
3 The proportion of vaccines exposed to >10°C was significantly higher when the journeys lasted more than 30 minutes or were greater than 3.2 km .
4 Since the ‘ two-plus-four ’ process began , Britain and France have been in tune , notably on a place for Poland when the talks turn to frontiers .
5 Israel presented Syria with a fresh draft discussion document when the talks resumed on Sept. 14 .
6 ‘ I would do a work-out on the pitch before the match but when the games starts I 'm on the sidelines , ’ he says .
7 When the goalposts move
8 When the navvies turn up for their wages on a Friday afternoon after a hard week of digging up roads , try presenting them with a handsome bound volume of Gaelic poetry .
9 There would be even more noise when the navvies moved to their next camp closer to Swinbrook and beside a stream that flowed through the village and on to the river Windrush .
10 Groups of sensilla at the base of the halteres are stimulated by deformations of the integument when the halteres vibrate and the resulting pattern of nervous impulses is modified by the addition of torques due to the turning movements of the fly .
11 When the goslings hatch , they will recognize the first moving object they see as the creature to follow around for the next few weeks .
12 Autumn was already approaching when the horses returned .
13 Frequently when the horses had finished eating they would get the bucket out of the tire and search for any grain that might have spilled underneath .
14 He was still in the middle of the road when the horses thundered up to the inn .
15 Those who had carried on far enough reached South America , which much later became cut off when the seas rose across the isthmus of Panama .
16 The Miami Cubans are flexing their wallets for the return to a country whose people are healthier , better educated and less racially divided than when the exiles left .
17 When the pressmen started on sheet C , the compositor washed and distributed type from the two B formes just finished with ( keeping the running titles safely , though ) ; he prepared inner and outer D , which the pressmen would call for next , fitted the B running titles neatly in place , and again got on with something else .
18 When the revisionists looked into the pigeon-holes without preconceptions , surprising novelties stared back at them , some with five eyes , some with none .
19 When the gods created heaven and earth — according to an old Eastern story — they were left with just one problem : where to hide Truth .
20 Ekādaśi , duadaśi , tetradaśi , chaturdaśi : the days of the karāti , when the gods dance at night .
21 The twist to this story is that it was only when the gods lost patience and threatened to draw a veil of darkness across the proceedings , leaving me stranded high and wet ( and rather chilled ) on one of the most rugged landscapes in the land , that I at last took the chance and accepted the offer that had been proffered .
22 IT 'S THE TIME OF THE karāti , THE NIGHTS LEADING UP TO THE full-moon festival , when the gods enter the dhāmis and use their bodies to dance among the villagers .
23 The Prince had had an inkling of what was to come in Wales , when the crowds had been so eager to see Diana that they could scarcely hide their disappointment if Charles and Diana took one side of the street each and they were on the side of the street he took .
24 When the crowds had left after the second home match , Chapman met the helpers in the stand and asked them to take him on trust , asserting that the changes were in the club 's interest .
25 When the crowds stormed the Palaţul Primaverii on 22 December , they were astonished by what they found : The lavish — if ugly — real and imitation Louis-Quinze furniture ; the use of marble and gold for everyday objects ; and , most striking of all , was the presence of a large Philips colour television and videotape recorder in every room .
26 This completes the circuit in the switch so a current flows to the lamp 's electrodes and heats them , The glow discharge stops when the contacts touch ; the strip cools off and the contacts reopen .
27 When the explosions eased off a bit , I bade farewell to Pat and got out of the big house as quickly as possible .
28 He had been locked in a cabin , a prisoner with the officers when the bombers came on a low-clouded November afternoon .
29 A common result of this is that when the philosophers deny autonomy to women , they do so for the same sorts of reason that they deny it to children and cite lack of rationality , capriciousness and vulnerability among their characteristics .
30 But this fundamentally depends on the level of output of the economy when the savers reach old age .
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