Example sentences of "[adv] when [pron] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps when I get a minute to meself we can have a picnic of our own , ’ he suggested . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , because … well , naturally when I took the job I did n't realise that I would come to dislike him so much . |
| 3 | I allowed you to ride alone when I had no knowledge at all of your ability . |
| 4 | John Giacobbi sums it up quite nicely when he portrays the average A&Rs as narrow-minded lemmings worried about job security . |
| 5 | They were all crossing together when they saw the skid , the boy on the motorbike , out of control and ploughing towards the sedate black Morris Minor . |
| 6 | It was lucky you were together when you found the bodies . |
| 7 | ‘ You 'll be able to get a flat and all when you get a job . ’ |
| 8 | Constance asked timidly when she heard the voice at the other end . |
| 9 | Like ordinary people in general , old people usually show up vividly in the record only when they become a problem . |
| 10 | It was a wild time , and even the old women were poachers , he said , with the aid of a harmless looking dog that barked only when they reached the cottage with a fresh killed rabbit . |
| 11 | His tale was verified by another member of the party Hawick 's B international hooker Jim Hay , who recounted that his fellow Teri , Jim Renwick , had been so intent on chasing and tackling the electrifyingly quick Eric Rush that he had failed to notice a helicopter land on the pitch and it was only when they felt the down-draft from the rotor blades that they put on the anchors . |
| 12 | It 's with an apostrophe is an abbreviation for it is , because you never , and I I think those three little rules there only apply only nouns have an apostrophe , pronouns never have an apostrophe and it 's only nouns ending in s , have an apostrophe and it 's only when they own the thing that follows , except when they , when they do n't end with an s , but you know the exception of men 's , women 's , children 's and sheep . |
| 13 | But she said she does n't need them for Monday because it 's only when she takes the tests she gets in a panic not when she 's she said she can do it in the practice classes . |
| 14 | Only when she saw the outline of a man 's head in a peaked cap sitting in the driver 's seat was the mystery explained . |
| 15 | Only when I ordered the boatman to take us to Syon did my master break free of his reverie . |
| 16 | only when I like a D is that pardon me , ah pardon me no oh er , er Margaret Thatcher knocked at the door the other day |
| 17 | I was so caught up in what I was seeing that it was only when I reached the top of the close where they lived that I started to think again about what I was doing there , and it was then that my feelings of fear started . |
| 18 | You talk to me only when I ask a question . ’ |
| 19 | Only when I had the body in my hand did see it was a goldcrest . |
| 20 | I learnt to do arithmetic only when I opened the tea stall . |
| 21 | I 'd read about this technique in my books , but it was only when I did the course that I realised that , although it would work for sparrowhawks and most other hunting birds , Dawn 's hunting did not depend on speed . |
| 22 | The front of the machine sports some graceful curves , but it 's only when you take a peek round the back that you get some inkling that this one is different . |
| 23 | Fish , only when you have a bit of sex in n it ? |
| 24 | The other option is to have it resident at all times but is activated only when you want a fax converting . |
| 25 | Only when he had a rope in his hand was he cruel . |
| 26 | Prior Robert was conscious of his shadow only when he had an errand for him to run , or need of his obsequious presence to restore a balance when someone had managed to scar the priorial dignity . |
| 27 | In the violent argument which followed , Coleridge was prevented from running at his brother with a knife by the return of their mother , and then fled from the house , still in an ‘ agony of passion ’ , stopping only when he reached a hill overlooking the River Otter a mile from the town . |
| 28 | Then he darted out of the room , pausing only when he reached the barn , to lean against the door and breathe deeply . |
| 29 | It was L-shaped and only when he reached the comer of the ‘ L ’ could he see the whole of the room . |
| 30 | Thus the farmer on whose land the first find was made discovered his land was being prospected only when he found the prospectors sampling streams on his land . |