Example sentences of "and when [pron] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hon. Friend is right , and when one recalls that one of the world 's biggest employers was the Red Army , one can read a lot into that country 's full employment policy . |
| 2 | He got rid of oppositionists by proposing some impossible task , and when they failed or refused would move their expulsion , anyone who voted against automatically expelling themselves . |
| 3 | I think you have to look after people both at work and when they retire and we inflation-proofed our pension scheme during the whole of that pretty dreadful time when inflation was running at over twenty per cent . |
| 4 | And when they died and the fleas had finished feasting on their blood , which was by then putrid and crawling with the bacilli , the fleas looked round for another host , and if they could not find another rat , or any small hairy creature to their liking , they settled for the next best thing , which was usually human . |
| 5 | It is angering to meet with the retort from some doctors that this is so much mumbo-jumbo , when they have not themselves lived in malarial areas and when they know that the present anti-malarial drugs on offer are not failsafe . |
| 6 | When they heard that multitudes in Samaria had received the word of God , they gladly sent them Peter and John ; and when they heard that in Antioch a great number had believed and turned to the Lord , they at once despatched Barnabas who , when he came and saw , rejoiced ’ ( McGavran 1959:25 ) . |
| 7 | By comparison with the Greeks and Etruscans the Romans were slow to accept coinage and when they did so they began with copper . |
| 8 | Up to the early 1960s not many academic contestants had climbed into the ring and when they did so they most failed to deliver a telling punch and lost the fight in the opening rounds on a technical knock-out . |
| 9 | First he told them to lay off me , and when they sneered and said what would happen if they did n't , he merely replied , ‘ A series of inexplicable misfortunes . ’ |
| 10 | If social anthropologists are sincere when they say that their subject is a kind of micro-sociology and when they proclaim that they no longer feel themselves to be members of a culture/society which is intrinsically " superior " to that of the people they are studying , why do n't they study themselves ? |
| 11 | Erm , er we talked to the departmental transportation departments er attended and it is I think fairly widely open to members of the county council so that , these issues can be pursued as and when they arise or choose to comes along . |
| 12 | I ca n't do it , and when we try and do it , we 're no good at it , and we ca n't do it . |
| 13 | I really like my new jacket and hat and scarf , and when we stop and chat with a couple of people from the house , they say how smart I look . |
| 14 | And when we saw that we all started talking about what might be about to happen between these two . |
| 15 | And when we got and once we got that then |
| 16 | It was very confusing , key words , when we started using key words and when we asked because something was n't there , and we consulted the script , we were still cutting words out , but , at , the script was definite , but sort of like , two of them well they had doubts , and like we started cutting words out , and then like , the words that were out . |
| 17 | Professor Pearn and I had for the last ten years been interchangeably secretary and editor of the Burma Research Society , and when we discovered that the Society 's bank had been able to get our balance safely into India before the break-up , we conceived the plan of a series of Burma Pamphlets , describing various aspects of the national life . |
| 18 | The sun seared down on us through the thin air , and when we slowed and turned our own cloud of dust enveloped us . |
| 19 | And when we think that we saw it when it was new ! |
| 20 | But three of the poems which follow were published in 1807 — Alice Fell , Stepping Westward and Elegiac Stanzas — and when we consider that the major part of The Prelude dates from this time there seems no reason to challenge the usual critical dictum that this was Wordsworth 's major creative period . |
| 21 | It is designed to watch the life of an application continuously , and when it detects that the application has crashed or hung , it recovers that application at an initial internal state or at the point at which data was last saved . |
| 22 | After the dress , the child took off two white petticoats , and Aggie noticed that the material was quite good ; and when it seemed that the shift was about to be taken off too , she said , ‘ I would keep that on , if I were you ; you have n't got a nightgown . ’ |
| 23 | But MI5 deliberately ignored them as and when it suited because it believed no prime minister or Home Secretary would interfere nor would any member of the service break ranks and tell the truth about what really went on inside MI5 . |
| 24 | But I am sure that a dynamic system which is flexible enough to respond to congestion as and when it occurs and can cope over time with any land use intensity changes without modification , will be more acceptable to the travelling public than rigid systems . |
| 25 | Norfolk 's and Rent 's adherence to Lancaster was motivated by little more than expediency , and when it looked as though he was not going to win after all they defected to Mortimer . |
| 26 | Listen to a car passing on the road : as the car is approaching , its engine sounds at a higher pitch ( corresponding to a higher frequency of sound waves ) , and when it passes and goes away , it sounds at a lower pitch . |
| 27 | They can never win , and when it looks like they might , someone moves the goal post . |
| 28 | He would watch the notices in the papers , and when someone died and the widow was left alone , he would go there and think up some sort of lie — he lied always , as a boy , even when there was no need , and he looked so clean and innocent that if you did not know him you would believe him , every time . |
| 29 | But I mean he was very interested and when I said that we 'd actually done a recycling directory and that I was thinking |
| 30 | and when I said that to Penny she said well that 's nice she said you 've got ta lot of , a lot of friends at home , I said no , I have n't got friends |