Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , I began playing guitar professionally when I was about 15 or 16 years old , and was recording albums by the time I was 17 . |
| 2 | My mum right when I put my make-up on in the morning my mum said oh erm she went to the phone box and she phoned up the specialist and they said so I 've got ta go . |
| 3 | This may be the case literally when a French speaker has to communicate with a non-French speaker but , even within a common language , usage varies enormously . |
| 4 | This was a bar that er went under the bomb like that when they fastened them up , and then when they dropped the bombs this bar was in a clip , like where me finger is , i in a clip so when they released them it dropped out of this clip the bar went as well of course , down that went down went the bomb drop bars with it used to be make them day and night and things like that and er of course there was er Bloxwich Lock and Stamping we used to do odd stamping , odd forgings and things li and er that was other part of the war work . |
| 5 | The practice in medieval times was to house all of the grain crops in the barn , using ricks as a last resort only when the barns were full . |
| 6 | We were in the kitchen together when Caroline said I should meet Colin . ’ |
| 7 | The Criminal Law Revision Committee , Eighth Report , Theft and Related Offences , Cmnd 2977 , para. 123 , goes against Lambert in that it would have given a defence only when the accused 's act was " morally and socially acceptable " . |
| 8 | Indeed , some ( Bhatt and Wasserman 1989 ) have argued that the ability of an animal to respond in the same way to a range of different stimuli should be ascribed to the operation of a conceptual category only when mediated generalization can be demonstrated among these stimuli . |
| 9 | He told them that he was answerable to Parliament alone when he made decisions and that it was his duty to take into account the wider interests of the public . |
| 10 | It is a bit much when you think , you know , hot on the heels of Will Carling 's erm , you know , accusations about the All Blacks , and , and what they 're er , er , alleged to have got up to on their tour of England and Scotland . |
| 11 | It 's a bit much when you come |
| 12 | I mean , it 's a bit much when the gas board is there showing us |
| 13 | I 'll I think it 's a bit much when you have highway engineers there and really they were showing us how it should be done . |
| 14 | Well anyway Wen , Wen was in bed with flu , he was with mum so when we went up to pick him up about ooh twenty past twelve I said to and Rudy , I said to Rudy I 'm , I 'm worried about Wendy , he said are you ? |
| 15 | The major opposition to the poll tax came to the fore only when people realised how much they would have to pay . |
| 16 | OUR old friend John Dawson can show a clean heel , or pair of them , to all the hoppers in Christendom , of course especially when given a week off from Hartlepool post office . |
| 17 | Three horses were being led down the lane opposite when one bolted across the road . |
| 18 | The Princess proved to be fitted for her post by her loyalty as well as her dignity , for she remained with the Empress until the end came on the morning of 4 September 1870 , leaving her mistress only when so commanded . |
| 19 | Best friends and next door neighbours Jason Blakelock , 11 , and Neil Holmes , 15 , of Millfields , Fishburn , were riding a bike together when the accident happened on Monday evening . |
| 20 | He thought that in principle the plaintiff 's right to compensation came into existence only when she was born with the bodily disability from which she suffered . |
| 21 | I started using cow much when I did n't have any plaster or cement . |
| 22 | Mr Delors claims that ‘ binding procedures ’ do not break the principle of ‘ subsidiarity ’ — the idea that decisions should be taken at EC level only when it makes sense to do so . |
| 23 | When children acquire more than one language at once , they too begin by acting as if Contrast applied at one level only when they themselves are speaking . |
| 24 | We head back to the apartment only when the day folds in around us for good . |
| 25 | Current thinking is that the chromosome of E. coli meets all the microbe 's ordinary domestic needs , which rarely change , and that plasmid-borne information comes into play only when the microbe encounters a stress — a changed nutrient , an antibiotic or competitor . |
| 26 | That incident appears to be behind the decision by golf 's ‘ Wild Thing ’ to clean up his act , and he said last night : ‘ I will check into an alcohol rehabilitation unit and return to tournament play only when I am comfortable my life is in order . ’ |
| 27 | The formalised and structured use of a variety of books to support learning in schools came into play only when the school population had been weeded down to less that 10% of the state school population . ’ |
| 28 | One other possible objection is that the difference which we are describing may be real but should not be regarded as part of syntax , rather as a variation that comes into play only when we focus on the correlation between linguistic expressions and external non-linguistic phenomena . |
| 29 | The Voice is a very important aid especially when training the young horse . |
| 30 | In the third , medical advisers have developed a management role in the family health services authority , addressed wider health strategy , and planned practice development ; pharmaceutical advisers have led in all aspects of prescribing , involving the medical adviser only when the issue is whether to prescribe rather than what to prescribe . |