Example sentences of "[noun sg] when [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the undercard on Thursday Darlington welterweight Charlie Moore will have his third professional contest when he meets Alfreton 's Joe Corcoran . |
| 2 | They were looking for food , of course , and would suddenly plunge downwards at lightning speed when they spotted something . |
| 3 | For a big man , he could move with surprising speed when he wanted to . |
| 4 | The auto gearbox refuses to take the revcounter needle anywhere near the red line ( and that 's set only at 4500rpm ) , which means the chances of kicking down into a lower gear are limited , making A-road overtaking manoeuvres more ponderous than they should be and knocking a substantial hole in the cruising speed when you meet a hill . |
| 5 | I suspect that I am not the only hon. Member in the Chamber with a sense of de ja vu when we debate European affairs . |
| 6 | She caught Urquhart 's glance when she looked up , a musing and erotic stare that swerved away . |
| 7 | The Tory government contributed to proliferation when it permitted the supply of nuclear weapons material to Saddam Hussein . |
| 8 | My last boss used to fumble under my skirt when I took dictation . |
| 9 | ‘ Nothing in this marvellous list ’ says Milton ‘ was as fine as Eden ’ and of course it hurts him to say it , and I do n't think it 's far fetched to detect that hurt and pain of that great sacrifice that John Milton is making in the rhythm when we read ‘ Might with this paradise of Eden strive ’ , or in the fact that he ca n't stop there , because I did n't — as you will have realized from Bentley 's comment — I did n't read you the whole passage . |
| 10 | She publicly commented on the rift when she spoke to newspaper columnist Jean Rook : ‘ I 'm absolutely sick of the ‘ Wicked Stepmother ’ lark . |
| 11 | You might have an animated kangaroo as a cursor , the sound of a horse when you open up your word processor , and the sound of bursting bubbles when the screen saver comes on , for example . |
| 12 | You might have an animated kangaroo as a cursor , the sound of a horse when you open up your word processor , and the sound of bursting bubbles when the screen saver comes on , for example . |
| 13 | Uncle brought his own horse when he took over at Low Birk Hatt , an old grey mare called Madge . |
| 14 | William claimed that Richard cheated by plunging his sword into William 's horse when he found that he could not win by fair means . |
| 15 | IF MARTIN Pipe has a Gold Cup horse in his yard this season it is probably Rusch de Farges and there will be plenty of interest in this exciting young horse when he reappears in tomorrow 's A.F. Budge Gold Cup at Cheltenham . |
| 16 | IF MARTIN Pipe has a Gold Cup horse in his yard this season it is probably Rusch de Farges and there will be plenty of interest in this exciting young horse when he reappears in tomorrow 's A.F. Budge Gold Cup at Cheltenham . |
| 17 | Mary fell off her horse when it bucked . |
| 18 | He rubbed the muzzle of a horse when it nosed up to him , and scratched its ears . |
| 19 | BABY-SITTER Joyce Cotton had to call the fire brigade when she got stuck in her own front room after putting her twin grandchildren to bed upstairs . |
| 20 | A disabled man who is unable to speak typed out a message on his computer to call the fire brigade when he woke to find a candle had caused a small fire in his bedroom . |
| 21 | Described as " quiet , genteel and beautiful — a real aristocrat " Maria can only have compounded her family 's displeasure when she eloped with a volatile Irish sheep shearer . |
| 22 | She had started the second stage of labour when they carried her into the Rotunda and hurried her away into the labour ward . |
| 23 | Even among the former they failed to make a decisive impact upon the labour market before 1914 , due partly to workers ' suspicion of bureaucratic intervention in the labour market and to the indifference of employers , who had little difficulty in finding labour when they needed it . |
| 24 | Dr Chris Wells , director of one of Europe 's largest pain clinics at Liverpool 's Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery , says many people lie down in the dark and withdraw from circulation when they have a bad headache . |
| 25 | It has even refused to injunct a magazine which had published an allegation it could not justify , where it might succeed at trial for other reasons : Soraya Kashoggi sought an injunction to withdraw " Woman 's Own " from circulation when it published a statement that she was having an extra-marital affair with a Head of State . |
| 26 | erm towards the end of the century it was just about possible for middle class girls , or a few middle class girls to get a reasonable academic education at one of the G P D S schools — we 've got one in Hove , you know the girls ' public day school trust foundations — but only very few went there and got what would be equivalent now to a kind of secondary education and a very , very , very , very tiny minority of those girls could go on to university if they faced an enormous amount of opposition when they got there and also to get there in the first place , but for most girls there was only a basic elementary education , which increasingly stressed the sort of domestic side of a girl 's vocation . |
| 27 | Guernsey made short work of the opposition when they won the event on home soil in 1990 . |
| 28 | England 's Player of the Year was not really timing the ball , but heaven help the opposition when he does . |
| 29 | But one League chairman told us : ‘ I think Gordon will have quite a bit of opposition when he stands again . |
| 30 | The Princess 's face went a little pink when she heard this . |