Example sentences of "when a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a flash of lightning lit up the sky to the south we decided we 'd better go now ! |
| 2 | When a quarter of an hour had passed the Brigadier poked his head round the door , wondering if the Captain had gone off somewhere , it was so quiet . |
| 3 | Among the overseas sporting awards is an OBE for Ewen Chatfield , the veteran New Zealand bowler , who was saved by the prompt action of Bernard Thomas , the MCC physiotherapist , when a ball from England 's Peter Lever knocked him unconscious in his maiden Test match at Auckland in 1975 . |
| 4 | The problem arose when a ball from Aqib lifted sharply and lobbed off batsman Andrew Jones 's glove to be caught at slip . |
| 5 | And when a tune like that comes along , it 's as if they 've always known that song , and so then you tap in the song and that 's why you 're doing the record . |
| 6 | But she suffered a setback when a bout of glandular fever looked like bringing her season to an abrupt halt . |
| 7 | When a clerk of the course comes out with a statement like this it seriously weakens the case of those , like myself , who would like to see transport allowances reintroduced . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , when a minister with a firm grip on government patronage was involved , a refusal to offer such a return would effectively deprive the member of parliament of further opportunities to aid his own constituents . |
| 9 | The last reverberations of the gong were still vibrating on the still air when a door down the corridor burst open and young girl raced out onto the landing , heading for the stairs . |
| 10 | In one case , noted earlier , an order was made when a child from a good home was kept away from school because of the parents ' opposition to comprehensive schools . |
| 11 | This is quite important because when a child in the third form the kids are making up their mind whether to do science or not . |
| 12 | When a flurry of snow lightly dusts the roads and pathways of the urban and suburban areas you can be sure that Baldersdale and the rest of the high Pennines will be thigh deep . |
| 13 | He once lost £80,000 when a tour of Japan was cancelled suddenly and he had to pay the cost of transporting the show 's equipment back to Britain out of his own pocket . |
| 14 | Liverpool left-wingers protested when a call for a court which disabled people can get in and out of was rejected . |
| 15 | Although fingerprinting was not officially adopted in India until 1897 it was Herschel who , when a magistrate in Hooghly in 1877–8 , instituted the first known system . |
| 16 | The curve in the middle shows what happens when a mixture of benzene and naphthalene is cooled . |
| 17 | Because of its scope , readers must not be surprised when a description of an industrial application switches , say , to a research application in fundamental physiology or pharmacology . |
| 18 | When a spill of asbestos occurred shortly before 3 a.m. on Tuesday 27 May , workers stopped work immediately . |
| 19 | But not so terribly easy when a folder of crime-fighting guidance is left propped against every front door . |
| 20 | Between 38 to 20 million years ago large sections of the present-day west coast were formed when a chunk of a long-vanished continent adhered to the coastline . |
| 21 | Within a few months these hopes were dashed when a majority of the Manchester committee insisted on recognising an American evangelical , the Rev. Fred Hemming , as an official agent to raise money for the anti-Garrisonian abolitionists in America although he only had the general support of Lewis Tappan and apparently regarded the Garrisonians and their British sympathisers as ‘ infidel abolitionists ’ . |
| 22 | What do you think the impact is on erm you know a community such as Flats when erm you know , when a majority of the people in the flats , are living on the poverty line , or below it ? |
| 23 | An example that pinpoints the problem was exposed when a map of all trees over 20 cm diameter at breast height in 2 sq km of the semi-deciduous forest of Barro Colorado Island was made . |
| 24 | The formula attains a high mark when a diversity of variables is woven into a unified design . |
| 25 | According to official accounts , Spartak Okopyan , 39 , was shot when a column of soldiers returned fire after coming under attack as it patrolled Stepanakert , now exclusively populated by Armenians . |
| 26 | With a grimace she started to toss the paper down , then stopped when a column on the opposite page caught her attention . |
| 27 | The number of cases have more than tripled in a week , registering the highest increase since the 1975-76 epidemic — when a peak of 350 cases per 100,000 were recorded and 1,283 people died . |
| 28 | The Health chairman was unmoved ( leading Awlad Amira to remark later that everything had already been decided , there was no true democracy ) and was about to raise another aspect of the question when a speaker at the public microphone began to talk about the roads , mentioning the present high cost of transport across the Sahara . |
| 29 | In psychological terms , when a speaker of one language learns a second there is a tendency to generalise some of the rules of the first language to the second language ; when these rules conflict with the correct rules for the second language there is interference , sometimes known as L1 interference or mother-tongue interference . |
| 30 | A senior Australian UN officer was wounded when a helicopter of the UN advance mission in Cambodia was hit by gunfire on Feb. 26 while flying over Khmer Rouge-controlled territory in Kompong Thom Province . |