Example sentences of "and when [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modigliani was plagued and anxious because of the difficulty of finding models , and when one had been found he waited in a state of tension for fear of being let down . |
| 2 | The teacher spoke to every child during the lesson and when one looked like being missed other children cheerfully pointed out the omission . |
| 3 | Freud 's comment on dreams of exposure was , … the dream of nakedness demands our attention only when shame and embarrassment are felt in it , when one wishes to escape or to hide , and when one feels the strange inhibition of being unable to stir from the spot , and of being utterly powerless to alter the painful situation … |
| 4 | It turns out that this does not have a simple answer , for there are many different kinds of ganglion cell ( as anatomists have long known ) , and when one records from them one finds that they carry different types of message . |
| 5 | And when one made it to the centre circle and started his own sit-in , to Speedie that was like a red rag to a bull . |
| 6 | And when one thinks of individual subjects , why is mathematics typically in the science faculty when it is not a science ? |
| 7 | The marital bed : the altar of marriage ; and when one says altar , one implies sacrifice . |
| 8 | He was perched precariously on the very edge of the precipice waiting for puffins to fly past , and when one came within reach he swung his long-handled fleygastong ( which is like a landing-net on the end of a four-metre pole ) to intercept the bird . |
| 9 | And when one came to think of it he did look a little like a clergyman in his dark grey suit , especially when he wore his spectacles . |
| 10 | They were things that you took to enhance your experience and to make it more intense — to make your personal development became part of your life , It was a very high-minded approach and when one looks at what has happened to the drug scene today and one looks back to the prevailing attitudes at the time , one can see the absolute , total abhorrence among drug takers that I knew in those days of amphetamines , heroin , barbiturates , mandrax — all those things that had an adverse physical effect which were considered to by highly dangerous to one 's personal development and to one 's daily living . |
| 11 | And when one looks at the individuals within the Royal Family , they are so magnificently unaccountably and unpardonably boring . |
| 12 | In particular , to be a " regular casual " working more or less continuously for one organisation is incompatible with working only as and when one chooses . |
| 13 | " So it 's gone on — always on one ship or another , and when one comes home without him , he 's transhipped somewhere abroad . |
| 14 | ‘ Such odd things determine why and when one makes that kind of decision . |
| 15 | I was in apartments for 10 years , and when one has lived under those conditions it makes one contented to know we can use plenty of water . |
| 16 | Guests were too frightened to call an ambulance straight away and when one arrived Suzanne 's brain had been starved of oxygen . |
| 17 | No I 'm not , I 'm not going to go into , into further detail until we 've actually got fuller detail , and , and when one 's got something firm to say , we , we will of course say it . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The software also computes the depth that the article will take , space can be added for photographs if needed , and when everything fits the article is queued for printing . |
| 20 | With me , I might have problems with Dad , but Mum is always positive , and when something does n't look good she 'll tell me the truth too . |
| 21 | You just stand up and get out , but h what happens if and when something happens with your legs and you ca n't do that , how would get out then ? |
| 22 | And when something goes wrong there 's recriminations and when there 's recriminations , people will crawl for ways out . |
| 23 | But now women are meant to go along on an even keel and when something upsets them they think tha e , I should n't be able to express this any more , so I 'll go to the G P and he 'll give me something and then the emotions will go away , but unfortunately they do n't go away , they just go wandering , they 'll come back again at another point . |
| 24 | All your life you live so close to truth , it becomes a permanent blur in the corer of your eye , and when something nudges it into outline it is like being ambushed by a grotesque . |
| 25 | There were things that you knew , and there were things that you only thought you new ; and when something happened to shock you out of your ignorance , then the change in your perceptions could never be reversed . |
| 26 | Gradually the feeling lessened and she crawled out on to the open deck , peering about , and when nothing happened , grew confident enough to begin to explore . |
| 27 | Still , they can all be altered to suit , and when somebody asks where you got that dodgy or otherwise guitar sound you can say |
| 28 | I was n't gay , and when somebody asked me I 'd say , ‘ No , I 'm not ’ , which was the truth . |
| 29 | And he sent them to Bethlehem and said , ‘ Go and search diligently for the young child ; and when ye have found him , bring me word again , that I may come and worship him also . ’ |
| 30 | And when ye have won the fight , and the Moors are discomfited , ye may spoil the field at pleasure . |