Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lack of money prevents us eating properly when we are children , ruins our health , rots our teeth , makes our parents quarrel and take to drink , stops us having the clothes we want , the friends we like , the parties we long for , stops us having the tuition which would enable us to get an education — makes us end up street sweepers and not doctors ; induces women to have babies because there is no money for travel or entertainment , or to leave the parental home any other way : lack of money humiliates us all our lives : lack of money makes us live with husbands or wives we no longer love : lack of money makes us age earlier than we need : makes our hands rough with toil and our brows creased with anxiety : keeps us weeping by day and sleepless by night : the terror in our lives is the bill through the door which ca n't be paid : our lives close in the knowledge of failure — we failed to make enough money . |
| 2 | She supposed she was perfectly entitled to do that , since she had been his secretary for more than ten years , but for some odd reason it had still made her nerve-ends prickle antagonistically when Eleanor had said his name . |
| 3 | Most of the torpedoes were built from fibreglass and cardboard tubing and weighted to fall properly when dropped . |
| 4 | who wants to go somewhere when the channel tunnel |
| 5 | Both can be presumed to matter most when and where they are most influential — as in the charting of the interests , concerns and methods of analysis that make up a new academic discipline . |
| 6 | What is likely to matter most when someone is buying your product is a quite vague general impression that it is familiar and that they have heard good of it somewhere : not an explicit memory of an ad . |
| 7 | Bill Murray spent £50,000 on setting up his restaurant at Telegraph Hill , near Exeter , Devon , two years ago but said the business started to go downhill when he handed it over to a manager to run . |
| 8 | We are , he observed , only too willing to make this sort of leap , and not only in the field of theology ( Hume was also very critical of what he saw as the pretensions of the science of his day to uncover the ‘ hidden springs ’ of things ) , but we need to be much more modest and cautious , to realise how limited the scope of our experience and knowledge is , and how liable our minds to go astray when they over-reach themselves and fish in waters too deep for their lines to plumb . |
| 9 | Children suffer most when Dad beats Mum |
| 10 | It is , however , the direct producers , not the capitalist class who usually suffer most when this occurs as , for example , the tin miners of Bolivia and the rest of the world found out when the London Metal Exchange terminated its tin contract in 1985 ( Crabtree , 1987 ) . |
| 11 | Mrs Carson asked crossly when Ruth appeared . |
| 12 | Very often the chair in which the dead person used to sit most when they were alive , becomes a chair in which no-one else sits . |
| 13 | Wrung bitterly when life seemed Hell . |
| 14 | I know this might sound obscure , but erm , I read somewhere when that erm , if you actually bring in protectionism , it sounds like it could actually increase trade . |
| 15 | The old girl may have updated her image and cleaned up her act , but those eyebrows still crash together when she frowns . |
| 16 | I should think so when there are eight fascinating female forms in it , turning , twisting , pirouetting and corkscrewing about the stage at any one time . |
| 17 | I do n't think so when I went to let him in he 'd pulled himself up round the patio and looked as though he expected to be walloped for being silly he 's taken us this morning . |
| 18 | Do not make the mistake of reacting prematurely when a problem occurs . |
| 19 | Does the Minister agree that the best prospect of reaching and sustaining adequate inward investment will arise only when right hon. and hon. Members representing the people of Northern Ireland put aside their petty differences and continue talks with the Secretary of State to bring the violence in the Province to an end ? |
| 20 | Chaotic behaviour can arise only when the governing equations are non-linear . |
| 21 | They relented only when Branson , who had spent three sleepless nights preparing the club for opening , burst into tears of frustration . |
| 22 | Players will tend to perform better when they are among friends than when they are placed in unfamiliar surroundings . |
| 23 | The Utopia that has eluded humankind for so long , and which has so frequently been proffered as a possible gift from ancient ‘ gods ’ , has always been attainable , it became so when that first ‘ good ’ event in the far-off beginning took place . |
| 24 | Thus conditions not in themselves inhuman or degrading became so when they were combined with other bad conditions . |
| 25 | Use kicks only when you are well outside punching range |
| 26 | Moreover , management issues do arise naturally when clinicians work together in teams , perhaps with nurses and other professional staff . |
| 27 | Unfortunately a cold home , heated only when there are wet clothes around , causes damp and consequently health problems . |
| 28 | Born in 1903 , a year before Graham Greene , they met only when Orwell was dying ; and only a few letters are known to have passed between them , all composed in polite terms , as if to strangers . |
| 29 | Feeling the heat of his gaze right through the thin material , she folded her arms protectively , realising only when she saw his mouth curve into a mocking smile that she had merely pushed her breasts upwards , making them clearly visible above the ribbons and lace of the bodice . |
| 30 | But if he lied , saying that he came to Parfois with no felonious intent , and attacked only when he was surprised and frightened , Isambard would have won a better victory . |