Example sentences of "when [noun] [verb] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , it was no more than Scotland deserved for perseverance , and a fitting punishment for the obstinate Maltese when Nevin squeezed in a third goal in the 85th minute to ensure Scotland 's opening victory of this World Cup campaign . |
| 2 | So , for example , when Barth came in a later volume of the Church Dogmatics to discuss the image of God in man , he did so in a fashion which led Brunner to assert that Barth had now changed his ground , and adopted Brunner 's own stance as developed in Nature and Grace . |
| 3 | Up front United faded … they never looked like finding a second goal and there was no surprise when Albion ran in a third … |
| 4 | Shivering , she brushed a few drops of rain from her face , glad when Rune returned in a few minutes in the promised taxi . |
| 5 | Grobbelaar flapped at McGee 's cross and when Miller drove in a low shot Sanchez turned the ball into the net . |
| 6 | Type 4 represents the flying apart of the liberal democratic systems , which Lijphart expects to occur when elites compete in a fragmented culture , creating ‘ centrifugal ’ tendencies , in which the state disintegrates . |
| 7 | When dog occurs in a sentential context in which the specific interpretation entails the general interpretation , we can not be sure which sense is operative when reference is made to a male dog : the two senses under these circumstances are effectively inseparable . |
| 8 | When people meet in a social situation , they assess each other visually . |
| 9 | Such a thing is certainly not to be found on this earth ; yet those who pick to pieces the open texture or verbal infelicities of an international Convention rarely pause to consider how , when legislation prepared in a single legal system is generally so verbose , obscure , and generally badly drafted , one can reasonably expect more of the product of many hands drawn from widely differing legal systems with different cultures , legal structures , and methods of legal reasoning and decision-making , entailing maximum flexibility , co-operation , and compromise . |
| 10 | I was poking in the drawer of a table when Connors said in a hushed voice : |
| 11 | But her annoyance returned when Jenny came in a little while later and told her that she had asked Matthew to dinner . |
| 12 | Changing Places , published in 1975 , is set in 1969 ; when Zapp reappears in a later novel , Small World , set ten years later , he has changed his attitudes , in accordance with major shifts in the Zeitgeist . |