Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] the [noun] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | If your bitch is not neutered , you should be aware of the possibility of this behavioural change occurring soon after the time when she would normally have given birth , just over two months after her last heat . |
| 2 | Then he 'd been walking back to The Randolph when he suddenly felt he just could n't face his excessively sympathetic countrymen , and he 'd called in a pub and drunk a couple of pints of lager . |
| 3 | A number of the men absconded during the week , returning again in the evening when they said that they had been Christmas boxing . |
| 4 | But if film executives were to be believed , the majority of the audience was less interested in salving their fears about wars and conflicts ahead than in looking back to the time when Britain had a role to play in the world . |
| 5 | Looking back to the time when she could n't find reverse on her company car , Alison contrasted this with her new job responsibilities : ‘ Now I 'm driving over 2,500 miles a month , much of it spent on the M25 . |
| 6 | Looking back on the period when he was seriously searching as a fourteen-year-old ( and for a man with a mind of Russell 's breadth this was no ‘ mere adolescence ’ ) , he described it like this : |
| 7 | ‘ Looking back on the time when I was really big , around 1979 , I was the saddest and most miserablest I 've ever been . |
| 8 | People did broadcasts , and if they wrote books , or gave talks on books , these books were all to be found in the BBC Library , along with a fine technical collection and an unrivalled political section , dating back to the days when Guy Burgess ran their first Parliamentary programmes . |
| 9 | After violent storms the haul will often include valuable items dating back to the days when drowned sailors on the local beach was commonplace . |
| 10 | ‘ Of course , Taiwan has a Portuguese connection dating back to the days when it was Formosa , but you wo n't have found any opportunity to air it these days . |
| 11 | He also thinks it is important to build such a museum , as Japan and Britain have a long historical relationship dating back to the seventeenth-century when William Adams came to Japan on a Dutch ship . |
| 12 | She is full of admiration for the care and attention she is receiving at the hospital but is already looking ahead to the time when she is strong enough to go on to a convalescent home . |
| 13 | Clearly , the writer is also looking forward to the day when the Word of God will become flesh and live among us . |
| 14 | My reason for not having done it myself and my father 's reasons for not having done it with the National Gallery is that , in the case of Yale , I 'm looking forward to the day when there 'll be other people interested in English art who will give paintings or money to the Center for British Art just because it is the Center for British Art , where they would n't do it if it was the Paul Mellon Center for British Art . |
| 15 | Helen is looking forward to the day when Jenny can also be treated but this ca n't be done until she stops growing . |
| 16 | Even though he was looking forward to the day when she moved on , he was already beginning to sense that her leaving would be something of a wrench . |
| 17 | But I 've been just as happy lying , through the long June evenings , on her mother 's grave , and looking forward to the moment when I can join Catherine there ! |
| 18 | The time and effort demanded of them may put a strain on their relationship with a partner , who may have been looking forward to the years when they could be alone again as a couple . |
| 19 | Memories came rushing back of the night when Johnny had described this room ; the night she had told him about the time hiccup . |
| 20 | Well , at about half-seven he 'd gone into a restaurant in St Giles ‘ , Browns ; had a nice steak , with a bottle of red wine ; left at about half-nine — and was strolling down to The Randolph when he 'd met Mrs Sheila Williams , just outside the Taylorian , as she was making for the taxi-rank . |
| 21 | Do you often feel like dozing off during the day when you need to be awake ? |
| 22 | I left him to his problems because it was coming up to the time when Emil had said the crew should board the train , and I was due back in the coffee shop . |
| 23 | But in the meantime the food awaited her attention , and the two rafts containing eighteen hungry men were riding the white foam , every minute drawing closer to the time when they must be fed . |
| 24 | ‘ She comes whistling out of the dark when folks is in their beds and the most they 'll see of her is her green eyes and the red fires blowing up her smoke . ’ |