Example sentences of "when [noun] [verb] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is obviously too painful to talk about it — especially when fingers point in the direction of City Hall . |
| 2 | When Parliament met in the autumn of 1381 , the Speaker expressed the view that the troubles had been caused by abuses in government , notably by purveyance for the royal household and by the levy of taxation for the defence of the realm , particularly as this did not prevent the King 's enemies from raiding England . |
| 3 | It knew somehow that it belonged there , not here , and when thunder boomed in the sky it heard that thunder in its newly transmogrified body . |
| 4 | When birds feed in the mud , they take in the bacteria which paralyzes their legs and necks . |
| 5 | They went to bed and when Lavinia woke in the night it was Timothy Gedge she thought of , not her lost child . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , it was no more than Scotland deserved for perseverance , and a fitting punishment for the obstinate Maltese when Nevin squeezed in a third goal in the 85th minute to ensure Scotland 's opening victory of this World Cup campaign . |
| 7 | It was just after nine the following night , rain pounding in from the Atlantic , when Asa stood in the control tower at Laville and watched the Dornier take off . |
| 8 | When ions floating in the water happen to bump into the hard surface of the crystal , they tend to stick . |
| 9 | And when racism exploded in the eighteenth century — to justify slavery — it wiped out any acknowledgement of African achievements . |
| 10 | The issue erupted again when asbestos spilled in the factory over the first weekend in June and Raybestos management announced it had closed down that section of the factory . |
| 11 | When Keating painted in the style of Palmer , he was picked up by the Fraud Squad . |
| 12 | When Spring came in the door . |
| 13 | It 's funny er when Richard came in the other day and said he 'd been he 'd been to the dentist and you said oh well they have n't been in touch with us yet . |
| 14 | I wept when Smike died in the television play , and I recall an incident of a nine-year-old girl turning to a particular page of Black Beauty , crying bitterly and explaining through her tears to her grandmother , ‘ It 's so s-a-d ! ’ |
| 15 | The only powers that control fate are the Gods , and so when Tamburlaine mentions in a conversation which he has with Theridamas that he controls his own fate , this implies that he believes he is a God : ‘ I hold the fates bound fast in iron chains , and with mine hand turn fortune 's wheel about ’ . |
| 16 | When Goldsmith writes in The Vicar of Wakefield ( 1766 ) of ‘ an elegant house , situate in a fine country , and a good neighbourhood ’ , or remarks of a room in an unusually magnificent mansion merely that it was ‘ perfectly elegant and modern ’ , he clearly feels that he has said enough , since every reader can gloss those adjectives himself . |
| 17 | ‘ I love the presence of death , ’ he remarked when Barker visited in the company of Colquhoun and MacBryde . |
| 18 | For instance , when golfers stay in the Forte-owned five-star Dona Filipa , one of the most luxurious hotels on the south coast , they can play , free , on the affiliated championship courses of San Lorenzo and Penina . |
| 19 | So , for example , when Barth came in a later volume of the Church Dogmatics to discuss the image of God in man , he did so in a fashion which led Brunner to assert that Barth had now changed his ground , and adopted Brunner 's own stance as developed in Nature and Grace . |
| 20 | When Wordsworth confessed in a letter of 1794 that " I am of that odious class of men called democrats " , what he was indicating was not so much that he was a supporter of a wider parliamentary franchise as that he was on the side of the people and that he was a social and political egalitarian , though not necessarily also an economic one : " … my heart was all/Given to the people , and my love was theirs " , recalled the poet in The Prelude ( 1805 , Book IX , II . |
| 21 | Caspar was peering along the darkened west wall , when Fenella said in a whisper , ‘ Caspar ! |
| 22 | According to this analysis regions such as Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Kent need to invest in education , training and infrastructure in order to maximise the potential benefits of the Channel Tunnel , particularly in the long term when congestion costs in the grands poles become insupportable and investors look elsewhere . |
| 23 | However , the strategy also has a longer term aim to upgrade the infrastructure and skills of the region to enable it to compete effectively for investment when congestion costs in the ‘ grand poles ’ become insupportable . |
| 24 | There was no escape when Rush struck in the 24th minute , though there was luck about the Welshman 's strike . |
| 25 | When Josie dies in a car crash Roth feels relief . |
| 26 | Emily rang the bell and when Letty bobbed in the doorway , she spoke coldly . |
| 27 | When deflation set in the previous gains were wiped out and more . |
| 28 | Up front United faded … they never looked like finding a second goal and there was no surprise when Albion ran in a third … |
| 29 | Yugoslavia faded after an imaginative start and did not offer a serious threat until late in the game , when Mladenovic curled in a free-kick . |
| 30 | When jealousy exists in a dog , there 's a greater risk it will bite someone . |