Example sentences of "[v-ing] [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 | Do not make the mistake of reacting prematurely when a problem occurs . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Claudia , sleeping hardly at all and eating only when a worried Myra stood over her , got through them as best she could . |
| 5 | Bacterial spores can withstand extremes of hot and cold , not to mention the vacuum of space , for extended periods , germinating only when they attain more favourable environments . |
| 6 | Does it hold water and feel sticky when wet , cracking badly when dry ( predominantly clay or silt ) ? |
| 7 | Another racking fit of coughing seized him , doubling him over and ending only when he retched up a gush of phlegm and blood . |
| 8 | He stopped climbing only when he was too exhausted to climb any higher . |
| 9 | The shock of Charles and his army appearing suddenly when they were supposed to be usefully employed in far distant Italy filled the Saxons with fear , and they sued for peace . |
| 10 | Maybe because tonight the warning had been a long time sounding , had started its tormented wailing just when everyone began to think the bombers were n't coming . |
| 11 | He was on the point of returning downstairs when he noticed that the door to the rare book section was not quite closed . |
| 12 | Doreen Ditchburn , an eighty-three year old widow , was walking home when she was robbed by two attackers and pushed to the ground , breaking her leg . |
| 13 | Det Chief Inspector Neil McAteer said : ‘ The woman had got off a bus and was walking home when she heard footsteps behind her . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ Ken was returning home when the crash happened . |
| 15 | A row had followed : he had been returning home when he had heard a noise . |
| 16 | One raggedly clad individual shouted an incomprehensible greeting , cackling shrilly when Ellen quickly pulled Isabel away so the cart could proceed over the bridge . |
| 17 | The on-line help is once again beyond belief , appearing automatically when you are most likely to need it . |
| 18 | They were enjoying themselves and laughing loudly when suddenly the door opened . |
| 19 | Although the spectral index at phase 0.7 , close to the maximum , is about -2.0 between 606MHz and 1,660MHz and typical of most pulsars , at 408MHz the flux density is actually less than that at 606MHz and is lower than the extrapolated spectrum by a factor of about 4 ( Table 1 ) , indicating that strong absorption or scattering is occurring even when the companion is on the far side of the pulsar . |
| 20 | The most common is the all-too-familiar cystitis — the bladder could be inflamed and JoJo may think it needs emptying even when it is only partly full , with the result that she could be effectively ‘ caught short ’ . |
| 21 | On and on it runs , ranging from staccato to legato , and becoming fortissimo when anybody is about to leave the house . |
| 22 | ‘ Who is he ? ’ he kept repeating over and over again , stony-faced and disbelieving even when I had told him the truth . |
| 23 | It has , too , an inspirational engine : wailing gloriously when revved hard , yet still docile enough to pull the car along tamely in traffic . |
| 24 | So what 's happening then when you 're stressed . |
| 25 | They were laughing again when he said , ‘ Well , I 'd better not take the shag . |
| 26 | She was still shaking her head from side to side and laughing softly when she shooed him from the kitchen and returned her attention to her magazine . |
| 27 | And how about yourself , you obviously were n't that happy playing at left back for Oxford United , and you 've slotted into the central defence , playing a lot happier and of course , driving forward when you can for these goals ? |
| 28 | Fran turned and glared at Luke , feeling her heart thudding painfully when he smiled with an easy charm that sent little tingles shooting down her spine . |
| 29 | One voice followed another , and she had almost stopped listening altogether when a sudden difference jerked her back to avid attention . |
| 30 | Duke Hussey was chief executive of Times Newspapers and living locally when he became one of our " students " . |