Example sentences of "when [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah well when right at the beginning of the tape is Dave Allen , but that 's adult |
| 2 | She excused herself when halfway through the meal , and made for the ladies room . |
| 3 | There were red faces when halfway through an interview it was noticed that veteran Hal Roach , who produced the Laurel and Hardy movies , had not buttoned up his trousers properly . |
| 4 | Some two to three minutes later , when halfway between the RAF Wittering airfield boundary and the main runway , with the aircraft in a right turn at only 100 feet above the ground , the engine ceased providing power . |
| 5 | His principal endeavour was to stay off the subject of Islam except when alone with the children . |
| 6 | ( When alone in Tom 's attic recently , found his passport and discovered that when he was born I was already at Grammar School , doing Domestic Science — in vain , as it turned out ) . |
| 7 | A padlock was where the laces should have been to stop anyone taking them off when alone in the middle of the corridor . |
| 8 | Silence as though relief , when suddenly with a creaking and ghostly groaning the lid slid as if off and up sat a terrible apparition with outstretched hand screeching in a hollow voice , give me my gift with such violence , that some of the company fell into the water and had to be saved , and those on the shore scrambled in allways confusion was everywhere . |
| 9 | When Professor Hans Eysenck jumps up with his revised IQ results , 20 years on , still ‘ proving ’ that blacks are ‘ genetically inferior ’ , he calls himself courageous , a knight hunting for rational truths when all around him cling to myths ( the ‘ myth of equality ’ , in his words ) . |
| 10 | ‘ Why should we be comfortable when all around us are living in poverty ? ’ |
| 11 | And the time came when all round the world people started talking about the Costakis collection with reverence . |
| 12 | WHEN AWAY FROM HOME |
| 13 | Halliday and Kurzhals ( 1976 ) describe the value of specialist techniques for the child who ‘ learns the simple travel techniques of trailing in unfamiliar places , squaring off directly to go to a designated place , using the cross bar techniques when away from other children on a playground and retrieving dropped objects . |
| 14 | At the same time they had established bases in India in which they exercised some degree of local political authority , though only in the way that trading companies normally did when away from home , and with no idea of challenging the authority of the Great Moghul , the ruler of India . |
| 15 | He is now involved in full time pathology research , but with a schedule to suit the heavy demands when away from the books . |
| 16 | For a change the weather was fine , and when shortly after midnight the company second in command went round to visit the soldiers in the trenches , he found morale high . |
| 17 | I had gone to bed when shortly after midnight I was wakened by the teacher to say that one of the elders of the village was in great pain . |
| 18 | So it was quite an upset , though not quite a mortal blow , when shortly after Twomey 's departure , she took to having very funny turns , sometimes active , sometimes depressive . |
| 19 | My husband and I were very angry to receive from M.S.W. to contribute to Africa and Asia to assist their water flow , when just down the road from our house the same company had caused the flood meadows to dry up . |
| 20 | Five British soldiers were killed in Londonderry , 10 were seriously injured and about 18 residents of a nearby housing estate were treated in hospital when early on Oct. 24 a man was forced by the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) to drive a van packed with explosives into an Army checkpoint , where it was blown up by remote control . |
| 21 | When early in 1952 he held an exhibition of his work at the Archer Gallery in Notting Hill , he rang up Minton and invited him to see it . |
| 22 | that held me as a child , when home from term |
| 23 | Fourteen two , erm the great problem is it 's easier to get if an afternoon meeting can finish at a reasonable time , then I can probably but erm I think if you , if you 're looking at the clock when home in the evening for a number of reasons it might be then I would this and unless we can sort of put a restricted time on the agenda which is impossible , I can imagine coming down here at two o'clock for the meeting . |
| 24 | when rapidly over the rim |
| 25 | It drove Camille mad : she would lose her temper as she had lost it when still in her pram and would wave her limbs and bellow while furious tears fell to collect under her chin . |
| 26 | The gain required is rather high , and the circuit can easily become unstable , especially when close to the high currents flowing via IC2 . |
| 27 | Be careful how you react to QDM changes when close to ETA . |
| 28 | When later in 1823 he was once again arrested for debt , he watched fellow debtors in King 's Bench Prison perform a mock election which became the subject of a famous painting exhibited in 1828 and bought by George IV for £500 — ‘ baronets , and bankers , authors and merchants , painters and poets , dandies of rank in silk and velvet and dandies of no rank in rags and tatters , idiotism and insanity , poverty and affliction , all mingled in indiscriminate merriment , with a spiked wall twenty feet high above their heads ! ’ |
| 29 | When substantially into this period , the plan was mooted that TP280 also , with effort , might make the show , few in the Spitfire fraternity thought it possible . |
| 30 | Firemouths think about breeding when upwards of 2″ . |