Example sentences of "[pron] when [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scene is a farmyard where an empty , two-wheeled farm-cart or tumbril is standing under an open cart-shed , its shafts in the air : the chain , which when in use fits across the horse 's wooden pad or saddle , is hanging loose between the shafts . |
| 2 | The Opposition tell half-truths because Labour is the only party which when in office cut national health expenditure . |
| 3 | Get any repairs done before your packs fails you when in use . |
| 4 | Its particular advantage to the marketer is that it may be used without extensive training in mathematics or computer programming , since programming is done by the package itself when in operation . |
| 5 | The Labour party should know about the cost of restructuring because it did so itself when in government . |
| 6 | Is the wife 's duty to support herself when in desertion ( Cf. |
| 7 | the only erm problem I had I think with the basic er terms as outlined in this document are the fact that I 'm going to be wor erm intending to work for fif at least fifty of the fifty two weeks in the year at it when of course erm certainly as we 'd already agreed on my erm business plan within the summer month from the the end of July until the beginning of September |
| 8 | 7 Explain how to care for themselves when at home and who to contact if problems are experienced . |
| 9 | There is a compromise on the way on the question of admitting gays into the military , which goes by the nickname ‘ do n't ask , do n't tell ’ : recruiting officers will not screen candidates for homosexual tendencies , and homosexuals will be expected to keep their preferences to themselves when on duty , as heterosexuals are supposed to . |
| 10 | He reached inside his tweed jacket and passed across a Security Service pass — the sort used by MI5 officers to identify themselves when in trouble . |
| 11 | What formulae do you recite to yourself when at stool ? |
| 12 | For the young , there must have existed an inherited inborn enjoyment of life , for it can fairly safely be assumed that the pleasure experienced by them when at play , so obvious to modern man , must have been observable all through evolution . |
| 13 | That scourge of the garden , the greenfly , produces them when under attack , particularly from ladybirds . |