Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [noun] when [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I 'm a Summer Exhibition veteran , my heart sinks when the letter from the Royal Academy arrives . |
| 2 | I knew he was trying to cheer me up but I was determined to go back to my knitting lessons when the vultures had gone . |
| 3 | So when I was confronted by the station warrant officer ( SWO ) in my very best turnout I was somewhat aggrieved at his tirade about my flouting regulations when a strange apparition approached , an airman acting as the station Postman . |
| 4 | There is a package holiday that runs steam trains up and down the line during the summer , carrying rich tourists dressed in dinner-jackets and gowns , who scowl sternly from their carriage windows when the train is stranded at obscure little Scottish stations . |
| 5 | Census-takers have already trudged across Alaskan snow to count the Aleuts and Eskimos who quit their winter villages when the spring comes . |
| 6 | They are a mix of ordinary working-class people and affluent business families who were trapped in their town flats when the fighting started and now know they have lost their country homes for ever . |
| 7 | The two standby men would then take their rest days when the main body of the crew returned and the cutter operated during their absence . |
| 8 | Soon after the war ended it trebled its student members when the Ministry of Education issued grants to ex-servicemen in an attempt to prevent a recurrence of the disillusionment that had set in after the First World War . |
| 9 | Barrister David Ashton , acting for the liquidators of the Isle of Man Savings and Investment Bank , told the court that good news was on the way for the mostly small depositors , many of whom lost their life savings when the Douglas-based bank collapsed seven years ago . |
| 10 | Inadequate timetabling , the organisation of lessons during lunchtimes and instead of normal lessons or assemblies , the allocation of unsatisfactory classrooms , the poor arrangement of furniture for learning purposes , the lack of suitable materials — all these factors tend to discourage learners of community languages , especially where they have had little influence on the choice of their subject options when a community language is involved . |
| 11 | I was explaining this to your door porters when a most helpful youngster kindly took me in his charge and escorted me into this room . ’ |
| 12 | Where will you keep your house deeds when the building society returns them ? |
| 13 | Why rely on such a volatile source of fuel for our power stations when a steady supply could be obtained from the magical uranium ? |