Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the torpedoes were built from fibreglass and cardboard tubing and weighted to fall properly when dropped . |
| 2 | who wants to go somewhere when the channel tunnel |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Players will tend to perform better when they are among friends than when they are placed in unfamiliar surroundings . |
| 9 | In the middle and upper classes at least , children stayed " children " for longer ( it was harder for a child to remain so when it was working at the age of 12 or 13 ) ; girls and young women were more shielded from experience outside the home ; parents were , on the whole , stricter and more repressive . |
| 10 | Pelargoniums seem to flower better when rather pot-bound , so keep their roots restricted . |
| 11 | It 's kind of late now and I 'm in no condition to drive so when I get the 205 I only take it as far as the outskirts of Inverness where I stop at the first lit Bed and Breakfast sign I see and talk politely and slowly to the pleasant middle-aged couple from Glasgow who run the place and then say goodnight , close the door of my room and fall fast asleep on the bed without even taking off my jacket . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , if incidence starts to fall while outcidence remains stable , prevalence continues to rise , albeit at a decreasing rate , and begins to fall only when incidence drops below the level of outcidence . |
| 13 | And then , of course , I was n't able to attend much when I was left on my own after Mother and Uncle Tommy died and I had all the milking and farmwork to do myself . |
| 14 | Because of its reduced jaws , its teeth often fail to meet properly when the mouth is closed . |
| 15 | She turned on the charm to all she met and grinned at cameramen , seeming to know instinctively when the best pictures were being taken . |
| 16 | They soon learned not to talk when just a look would do , and even when separated , each seemed to know instinctively when the other was in trouble . |
| 17 | They tend to work effectively when a balance of roles is present in their composition . |
| 18 | Those areas which had shown the greatest price increasing during the boom tended to suffer most when the boom ended . |
| 19 | Although I did not get this trouble with my machines , we used to suffer badly when we first got our computer . |
| 20 | Derek said : ‘ We do n't want to wait to find somewhere when we are homeless . |
| 21 | This has 20 , then 16 , then 12 then eight passes with the lace carriage , although to compensate somewhat when this marathon task has been undertaken , one knits eight rows with the main carriage . |
| 22 | This can also be seen with evening primrose oil ; though not an essential oil , it appears to work better when applied externally for the treatment of hyperactivity in children . |
| 23 | Now you see why I 'll be quite content to slip away when God calls me to go . ’ |
| 24 | Smaller animals on the grasslands prefer to hide away when they are not feeding ; so the prairie dogs , which are rodents , live in vast , colonial underground burrows in North America ( with burrowing owls for occasional company ) , and the sousliks do the same in Asia . |
| 25 | She began to hide away when State banquets were in progress . |
| 26 | Wild animals tend to hide away when they fall ill or are injured , and those in captivity try to do the same , but it 's almost impossible for them . |
| 27 | Ruth sat down on the edge of the bed after he had left her , instructing her to come downstairs when she was refreshed and join him outside by the pool for a drink . |
| 28 | He is perching on the railway , six stops down the line , with a stationmaster he got to know somehow when he was on the town in Petersburg — the Dostoevsky no-home at its most stripped and strange in this novel of aimless movement . |
| 29 | It is important to know exactly when a contract is made because until that time either party is free to back out . |
| 30 | Two- and three-year-olds seem to know just when throwing a tantrum will leave you embarrassed and uncertain and undermine your authority . |