Example sentences of "just [verb] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1798 the threat of military invasion from Napoleonic France had only just ebbed when the Bishop of Durham announced to a startled House of Lords that it had come to his attention that the only reason the enemy forces had backed away from military invasion was because they had hit on a more sinister method of bringing Britannia to heel . |
| 2 | There were occasions when we were watching TV or just eating when waves of regret rippled across his face . |
| 3 | ‘ I have n't actually fixed a time when I will return , it just depends when I am made some offers . ’ |
| 4 | Yeah i er , just depends when you wan na do it . |
| 5 | it just depends when it stops weeping you see |
| 6 | I 'm reading him the Greek myths at bedtime and I just hope when we get to Oedipus the penny will drop . |
| 7 | Just speak when spoken to , that 's all . |
| 8 | ( The directory is updated with the length of the new file you have just written when you close the file . ) |
| 9 | A British team managed to reach one that , although it had been hooked several hours before , was still just living when its captor got it ashore . |
| 10 | Aged twenty-one and just commissioned when the Cigognes moved to Verdun , he had first leapt to fame the previous summer when , as a Corporal , he had despatched three German planes in a morning . |
| 11 | Research has only scratched the surface of the paranormal and supernatural phenomena , so we are left with odd cases of happenings that just materialise when least expected . |
| 12 | And the old just applauded when he finishes . |
| 13 | Yeah I 've just got When |
| 14 | On one occasion he was about to go on board a ship that had just anchored when unforeseen business detained him . |
| 15 | ‘ It just happened when we were half asleep . |
| 16 | Politics , he remembers , was ‘ just beginning when I was at Bristol . |
| 17 | Gabriel popped up out of his barrel to see the brawl which was just beginning when suddenly everyone froze , as if a wizard had cast a spell over them . |
| 18 | Mary Olpin from Stroud had just retired when she contracted the disease . |
| 19 | I 've seen an American training video where a policeman 's legs just buckled when one was used on him . |
| 20 | It did n't take long , and she was just finishing when Bill arrived , bearing a large picnic hamper . |
| 21 | ‘ The girl 's allowance must have just arrived when this happened , ’ the Captain said . |
| 22 | But you know , the tragedy is that this does n't just happen when we 're non Christian , it ha can happen when we 're Christians as well . |
| 23 | He told him not to do that , he said just pay when you got some and |
| 24 | I think he just dematerialises when he feels like it . ’ |
| 25 | In the 1950s the redoubtable Eva Crackles , a Yorkshire teacher , was gathering grasses at the point where the Leven canal crosses the site of an ancient lake , now long vanished , but clearly just surviving when the canal was cut in 1802 . |
| 26 | In a couple of months , they will be moving to larger premises , which Walker had just found when I visited him . |
| 27 | " My husband just crumbled when I felt it was me that needed to crumble and somebody to help me . |
| 28 | Well I just keep when I sit down , I 'm tired all the while and I 've got no appetite whatsoever . |
| 29 | She was just debating when the door opened and he came in . |
| 30 | But then something just clicked when he was about 15 . |