Example sentences of "[adv] when [pers pn] [vb -s] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to this view , the woman who agrees to have sex with D only when he promises to marry her ( never intending to keep this promise ) — and because he has promised to marry her — is a victim not of rape but of the lesser offence of procuring sexual intercourse by false representations . |
| 2 | The sound his long-toed riding-shoes made on the flags was not clumsy , and yet curiously halting , like the pace of a lame man whose lameness shows only when he forgets to brace himself . |
| 3 | In Germany a child proceeds to the next year only when he has achieved a satisfactory standard in every subject of the curriculum . |
| 4 | Only when he has drained ( killed ) a victim will he attack more logically ( with spells , etc. ) again . |
| 5 | Only when he has run away or been hurt and stopped , can you allow that determination , that anger , to drain away . |
| 6 | While research looks like taking more of a backseat in the new government , the extent to which Fabius will change research policy will become apparent only when he has begun to change the people in key staff positions . |
| 7 | He jumps at home only when he has had a long rest and needs a quick reminder of what the job is all about ; otherwise his jumping is confined to the shows . |
| 8 | He thinks he has saved for his holiday — a fallacy that is exposed only when he tries to redeem those bits of paper against an empty spending account . |
| 9 | For a statute or a past decision poses problems of consistency in strategy only when it has assigned people legal rights that a judge forming a new rule is for some reason powerless to change , rights that would work badly with the new rights he wants to create . |
| 10 | If the trouble has started and does not look like stopping , the best solution is to provide an immaculately clean tray of fresh litter , place it in a quiet corner , and then shut the animal up in that particular room , releasing it only when it has used the tray in the approved manner . |
| 11 | Ah but , but only when it 's realized it , it 's gone too far . |
| 12 | Furthermore when he does give way and claim it for his own , he loses it almost immediately to Gollum , who bites off Ring and finger with it . |
| 13 | Many people swear that their horse has a sense of humour , especially when it likes tipping them off ; but it is possible of course that these people actually have a considerable sense of humour themselves to put up with the vagaries of their horse ! |
| 14 | This work promises to be arduous , especially when it comes to deal with Jewish settlements in the territories , the future of Jerusalem , and security . |
| 15 | Despite these limitations , Rabbit can claim some advantages over other mobile phones currently available , especially when it comes to call quality and security , and international compatibility . |
| 16 | Especially when she happens to have a half-sister who can provide her with a stable and secure home in London ? ’ |
| 17 | Top Romford trainer Kenny Linzell says the fawn-and-white greyhound can only improve , especially when he learns to break from the traps a bit smarter than at present . |
| 18 | The kids , aged , typically , eight and nine , are baffled to receive the complete works of Shakespeare , especially when he starts reciting Hamlet over the Christmas pud . |
| 19 | Actually seeing her physically pregnant may increase this response , and so when she has had her baby and gone back to her usual size , it is easier to relate to her as a daughter again . |
| 20 | So when he claims to have had glimpses of absolute Truth , it may be reasonable to assume , not that he has caught a glimpse of some kind of hypostasized Ultimate or extra-mundane entity , but rather that through his participation in a particular form of life he is made aware of the need to live and act in accordance with certain religious and ethical criteria and is informed by the spirit of what might be called dharma ( law ) , or ta ( moral law ) , or tao ( way ) but which he prefers to call Truth ( Satya ) or God . |
| 21 | I can only get in when he forgets to lock the door . |
| 22 | Parsys does n't expect to have the SN9000 ready until ‘ late 1992 ’ — it will take three months or so to bed the new chip in when it does arrive . |
| 23 | They can be interested on the central questions , if the central questions are sent in a framework that they do understand , and perhaps it 's best when it 's done by somebody who is bold , not afraid of being amateurish , not afraid of being controversial , because theology erm is a world that can mean obfuscation . |
| 24 | There 's nothing difficult about a whole stream of , of er comments were raised by the inspector Mr team are , have addressed a large number of them , have told us what they propose to do to deal with a number of er and , and I believe that there will be things left over when he 's finished that , that he wo n't be able to resolve er perhaps er without the people that help the Committee er or some of us are always suggesting is that er those things that he is unsuccessful in resolving erm be identified and so that er when , when the er the Inspector makes his er his next report we can see just , just why that some of these other items there have were n't able to be addressed . |
| 25 | His credibility as EC President is at an all-time low just when he needs to tackle yet another crisis . |
| 26 | No not when it 's chopped off top and bottom like a stick from the fridge dear , it 's not a plant . |
| 27 | Not when he 's told me he was playing on somebody else 's table and not gon na have a game . |
| 28 | ‘ Then he may join me indoors when he 's had enough , as I already have . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Usually when she goes shopping … ’ |
| 30 | Moreover when he does refer to ideology it is not to develop the concept or incorporate it into his analysis of capitalism but to refer back to the tyranny of ideas and the emptiness of idealism ( e.g. in the Grundrisse , Marx 1973 : 164 ) . |