Example sentences of "['s] [noun pl] when [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is wholly admirable that this country can provide research facilities and educational expertise to overseas students , but the value of their work to this country may consist solely of the funding which they bring with them , the esteem in which they hold this country 's institutions when they have returned home , and their subsequent contacts and consultancies . |
| 2 | It is wholly admirable that this country can provide research facilities and educational expertise to overseas students , but the value of their work to this country may consist solely of the funding which they bring with them , the esteem in which they hold this country 's institutions when they have returned home , and their subsequent contacts and consultancies . |
| 3 | Yet Brazil is fully capable of producing imaginative children 's programmes when it wants to . |
| 4 | As a former congressman himself , he was well acquainted with the dangers facing the executive 's proposals when they reached Capitol Hill . |
| 5 | Without the assurance that there will be a market of sufficient size for the company 's products when they eventually come on stream ( a considerable period may elapse between product conception and realisation ) , projects requiring major capital investment would be too hazardous to undertake . |
| 6 | It was like those you get in comics — over people 's heads when they are having a thought — only this one was a bit more real . |
| 7 | While they chastised multiculturalism for identifying racism as the ideas in people 's heads when it should be located in institutional structures , they themselves underestimated the resilience , malleability and power of ‘ race ’ as a discursive category . |
| 8 | Now I was conscious of Aisha 's words when we stood together in the storeroom and she tried to dissuade me from going to London : ‘ Go alone to London without an aunt or a husband or your mother and they 'll say you 've sold your soul . |
| 9 | This is surely a babyhood memory , slightly corrupted , of seeing the word ‘ toilets ’ reflected fleetingly in my nurse 's spectacles when we travelled from London to Dover to sail for the continent . |
| 10 | I 'm not a fifth-former , or everybody 's muggins when it comes to sorting out their Drama Practical , or an ace swimmer lately deteriorated , or a lapsed flute-player . |
| 11 | According to Bernard Asbell , author of The Book Of You , wedded couples do n't feel the need to look into each other 's eyes when they are speaking because they feel at ease with each other . |
| 12 | It circled round her as she moved through the house and sometimes it settled in the look of pure hatred that emanated from her mother 's eyes when they rested on her . |
| 13 | A flinch of recognition flits across women 's eyes when it comes to men and money . |
| 14 | But to the Lamarckians it seemed much more natural to assume that the wasting away of an individual 's eyes when there was no light would be passed on to the next generation , resulting in a rapid loss of eyesight in the whole population . |
| 15 | He thought of how she who lay beside him had locked in her heart for so many years that image of her lover 's eyes when he had told her that he did not wish to love . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'll sell Grandpa 's pictures when his reputation comes round . ’ |
| 17 | You are happily filling your basket with the week 's groceries when you turn the corner into the next aisle and suddenly you see a roaring lion , its teeth glistening , open-mouthed and heading straight for you . |
| 18 | I always enquired about Dorothy 's parents when we met . |
| 19 | Again , now that he is a man he is expected to observe those admittedly very minimal standards of decency which apply to excretion ( for instance , not urinating on someone 's feet when you are talking to them ) , and so to this very limited extent we can speak of initiation being like toilet-training . |
| 20 | And er some of us seemed to be more awkward than others , I mean some people 's feet when you look at them and , and areas like that , that , you think well why did Jehovah make them like that , they 're so ugly and yet without them where would we be ? |
| 21 | Meanwhile , the quality of golf from Cheshire 's youngsters when they only lost 9–8 to the experienced Bromborough seniors was testimony to the coaching they are receiving from the county 's two professional teachers Alan Thompson ( Heswall ) and Peter Barber ( Didsbury ) . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , the quality of golf from Cheshire 's youngsters when they only lost 9–8 to the experienced Bromborough seniors was testimony to the coaching they are receiving from the county 's two professional teachers Alan Thompson ( Heswall ) and Peter Barber ( Didsbury ) . |
| 23 | It was almost under the mare 's hoofs when it saw fit to leap into the air and then dart away at speed . |
| 24 | The working was booked to stop at Colwyn Bay , Llandudno Junction and Llandudno , and worked from block to block until Muspratt 's Sidings when it took the Down Fast line and having got clear signals , proceeded to try to make up time . |
| 25 | NEWARTHILL , the McAlpine family 's private construction group yesterday joined the sector 's casualties when it announced losses for 1991 totalling £72.2m . |
| 26 | However , we tend to only notice a horse 's emotions when they become excessive , and involve the entire horse . |
| 27 | She must have seen it on some of the murdered woman 's belongings when you first entered the priory but she probably could not place it immediately . |
| 28 | Marin Ceauşescu 's position at the Romanian Foreign Trade Mission in Vienna made him the provider of the family 's needs when it came to everyday items from razor blades to video films . |
| 29 | Think about the opposition 's needs when you do this . |
| 30 | Ryan was just putting the final touches of white emulsion to Tosh 's paws when his father came back , having had a quick break from painting the two-year-old 's room . |