Example sentences of "[adj] when [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The war was eleven days old when School opened again , " as usual " , on Thursday , 14th September , the only concession to the new circumstances being a change in the hours : the morning sessions now ran from 8.50 am to 12.15 pm , the afternoon from 1.30 to 3.30 . |
| 2 | I was not very old when Dad told me that if you stood under it for very long , it would attract the coins out of your pocket . |
| 3 | All a far cry from the practices of old when panel pressing was labour intensive and slow . |
| 4 | Lady after lady breathed heavier when Pen dashed in and out , and on the days when Wilson was a little late with the supper — which she now undertook to provide — on account of having been delayed taking tea with Mrs Browning there was not a word of complaint but only a diffident enquiry as to how the venerable poetess had seemed . |
| 5 | However , the situation is much clearer when dog occurs in a context where neither sense entails the other , as in 43 : |
| 6 | It was quite dark when Breeze let herself into the house , and for a second she was dazzled by the electric light , and failed to see the suitcases in the hall . |
| 7 | It had made the day perfect when Gran paid for her and Adam to have a ride ; she could still remember the glorious whoosh to and fro , the sense of riding in the air like the wheeling gulls , the bitter disappointment when the woman in charge came to catch their swing boat and tell them their time was up . |
| 8 | One does n't resent it so much when life does . |
| 9 | For too few directors does pay fall by as much when performance sags as it rises in good times . |
| 10 | Endill was secretly relieved when Mould pulled the hook from out the water . |
| 11 | I never thought it would work like this : having been a small child in the 50s when women dressed more or less identically and according to their age and class ( gymslip , good suit , housecoat , then cardigan and pinny ) , I used to think that it was beautifully liberating in the 60s and 70s when convention began to permit a woman of any age to dress in virtually any style , from hooker to schoolmarm . |
| 12 | It 's due to air being too warm when pollination occurs . |
| 13 | It is mysteriously sad when death severs a very happy marriage — you have to experience it before you can realize it … |
| 14 | There is considerable difficulty in getting shortlisted when job sharing , and consequently we have found that job applications need meticulous planning . |
| 15 | They were dismayed when news came that he was as close as Manz , less than a hundred miles from Addis Ababa , harrying the district with a vast army . |
| 16 | All in all , she was glad when morning came . |
| 17 | These figures were virtually unchanged when war broke out with Spain in 1739 ; but lack of maintenance under the Walpole regime meant that she had only 35 of the line fit for immediate use . |
| 18 | Youth was , for Conrad , a period all too brief when romance prevailed over practical considerations , when it flourished because of inexperience and for want of maturity . |
| 19 | She was sitting miserably brooding when Marguerite tapped on her door and came in as Jenna invited her . |
| 20 | She said : ‘ I felt better when Dad told me there was no chance I was going to have to go live them . ’ |
| 21 | Everyone was so kind and helpful when Copper had his accident , although they all thought I was mad , and I would like to take this opportunity to thank them all , especially Cooper 's vet . |
| 22 | Menstrual cycles can vary between 22 and 35 days , 28 days being taken as an average , which is why it can be difficult for an individual to be sure when ovulation has occurred . |
| 23 | On one type the switch-off is automatic when water ceases to flow and the proportioner must be re-set before more chemical can be drawn again . |
| 24 | The manager of the recruiting bureau may or may not be present at the interview , but may be present when discussion takes place afterwards , or may have submitted a written report on the recruit 's attitudes and progress so far in the bureau . |
| 25 | Several researchers joined the group , masquerading as believers , and were thus present when midnight came and went without the prophecy being fulfilled . |
| 26 | This is the relatively cheerful theory , because the damage done by unkind history can be made good when history turns kind again . |
| 27 | This obligatory military involvement , though a burden which some clergy would willingly have evaded , was for others doubtless a proud duty or welcome excitement ; not many of those assembled actually saw battle , but their association with this medieval ‘ home guard ’ must surely have blurred the distinction between clergy and laymen , with ambiguous and some unfortunate results : more popular they may have been , but equally more vulnerable when sentiment turned , as it did , against both war and the clergy . |
| 28 | The second session began in March and finished at the end of July , and this was called the Summer Term , though in fact it was still extremely cold and wintry when term began . |
| 29 | The approximation was ( and is ) used as a basis for calculating the date of the paschal moon and hence determining when Easter occurs . |
| 30 | Concerned when turnover did not match the grandiose scale of the shop , Bertelsen tried various tactics to get the merchandise moving , including putting on an early sale . |