Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] in [art] [noun] when " in BNC.

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1 The first prisoners had come here in the days when the state of war between England and Germany was still largely theoretical .
2 A number of the men absconded during the week , returning again in the evening when they said that they had been Christmas boxing .
3 Where in the 1930s the mother was given solemn warnings as to what would happen if she disobeyed the rules , the mode now is to refer her , with continual reassurances however , to what might possibly result from some mistaken handlings : ‘ Here 's what happens once in a while when the needs of the child are n't recognized ’ ( Spock , 1946 , chapter on ‘ The Two Year Old ’ ) .
4 Regular breathing exercises , especially done early in the morning when the air is fresh , will clear the mind and invigorate the body .
5 Spring snow , as you might imagine , occurs late in the season when the offpiste is covered with a fall of snow too heavy to ski as powder , which remaining untracked , freezes into a firm — but not rock solid ( because it has not been compressed by skiers ) — cover .
6 In that moo , Jinny caught an echo of the bellowing noise Florence had made earlier in the year when they took her calf away .
7 The word ‘ plague ’ was used loosely in an era when medical knowledge was rudimentary .
8 However , if sown later in the spring when the soil is warm , it will germinate within two weeks or less .
9 A further irritant had occurred earlier in the month when talks scheduled for Aug. 17 to create a joint Korean Olympic team were called off by the North .
10 They were very naïve , as was proven later in the season when Jeff Gutteridge , the pole vaulter , was found positive after a random test taken at Lanzarote .
11 Canvassing on his behalf appears to have indicated , however , that many MPs would remain loyal to the Prime Minister in a first ballot , switching only in a second when , of course , there might be additional candidates .
12 The issue of abortion had been raised earlier in the month when , on June 23 , Bush vetoed legislation which would have lifted the federal ban on funding medical research which used tissue from abortions .
13 I used to walk between the two parts of the building — that is between my studio/study and the main house — and stare up at the pulley that hangs over the hall , an imitation of the one that hung there in the days when a real miller hoisted his sacks of grain .
14 The same was true of cattle in much of Europe at the time , and probably reflected neglected animal husbandry and a failure to breed selectively in a period when crop-growing was far more important than livestock .
15 It worked earlier in the season when we beat Rugby . ’
16 If he finds it amusing that he did not unfreeze acquisition grants even in the years when he had the money to do so , he is in a bad way .
17 This had been proposed in an earlier draft which was condemned by journalists as seeking to introduce " curbs … such as journalists did not experience even in the days when the CPSU was all-powerful " .
18 He finished sixth in his first Grand Prix , the South African , but enjoyed his first win later in the season when he won the Italian Grand Prix at Monza , and eventually finished the championship in third place .
19 The hay , silage and barley provide extra feed which farmers use mainly in the winter when the grass stops growing .
20 The lira ended the day up around 965 to the German mark from the 976 opening and well clear of the record 980 lows it had touched earlier in the week when the vote was announced .
21 Instead of these days being taken together in the spring when the estimates were published , ‘ supply days ’ were scattered throughout the session so that the Opposition , which is allowed to choose the subjects , could always have some time available should it wish to raise some immediate aspect of government policy .
22 X11049 was also lost later in the year when the propeller threw a blade , and the engine fell out .
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