Example sentences of "when [noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others could not wait to merge into the New World and when marriage seemed to an easy route , they were soon sporting engagement rings off-stage but definitely not when Mary was around . |
| 2 | When work ceased at an industrial estate near Liverpool ( within daily travelling distance of Leyland ) , Mr Stevenson was offered work at a number of other sites : Northumberland , Anglesey and Manchester . |
| 3 | When deflation set in the previous gains were wiped out and more . |
| 4 | When traffic increased from the late seventeenth century onwards , usually only one of the various alternatives was improved . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The villagers were still talking about the servant-girl 's revelations when dawn broke on a grim picture . |
| 7 | Ten minutes later , when silence reigned from the other side of the flames , she sat up to add more fuel to the fire . |
| 8 | When death came from the long-range German counter battery guns , it came with frightening suddenness . |