Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [vb -s] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are glad that she will be revisiting college when she comes to direct archaeological investigations at nearby Eynsham . |
| 2 | Should the British Gas Corporation be attempting to boost its share of the UK energy market when it plans to import high cost foreign gas in order to achieve it ? |
| 3 | Therefore we have a control mechanism to bring down blood-sugar level when it begins to reach unhealthy peaks . |
| 4 | Each currency is allocated a maximum percentage deviation against its ECU central rate , and when it has reached this limit there is the presumption ( but not an obligation ) that the domestic government concerned will undertake remedial action . |
| 5 | When he does specify precise quantities or times he is often wrong . |
| 6 | When he does produce these propositions he does so through ironic positive politeness , more precisely through superficially observing the approbation maxim : Anderson 's irony here is much more successful than that which he uses when arguing with the captain in scene six ( where his ironic statements concerning human rights in Czechoslovakia actually prompt the captain to ask further awkward questions ( pp. 70 – 1 ) ) , because he exploits the potential ambiguity of the academic discourse appropriate to a lecture . |
| 7 | He thinks he has saved for his holiday — a fallacy that is exposed only when he tries to redeem those bits of paper against an empty spending account . |
| 8 | Oh we want him to do that , our front wall when he 's got five minutes . |
| 9 | ‘ When he attempts to arrest disorderly persons who have the active sympathy of a crowd of roughs ’ , it added , ‘ a policeman 's lot is not a happy one . ’ |
| 10 | But his value could rocket when he starts winning big races and , later , at stud . |
| 11 | When he has inspired sympathetic coverage , the results tend to be not so much an exposition of Gironella 's achievements but belong to that particular branch of literature which uses works of art as a starting point for literary excursus . |
| 12 | When he has answered that question , he will no longer feel the need to control others . |
| 13 | Although the Commissioners are committed not to be swayed by the national interests of their own countries , it is clear that Sir Leon Brittan , the Competition Commissioner , has come up against stiff opposition from his colleagues when he has investigated anti-competitive behaviour in some of their countries , most recently over his veto of the Franco-Italian takeover of De Havilland in October 1991 . |
| 14 | When he has had quiet periods one simply got the feeling that he was having a rest , a feeling reinforced by his ability to produce a big innings apparently at will , especially on the grand occasion or when his team is struggling . |
| 15 | When he has mastered this type of movement kneeling , more advanced work might involve sitting on his heels and then shifting his weight towards his hemiplegic side to practise controlling his arm and the side of his trunk while some of his bodyweight is transmitted from side to side . |