Example sentences of "[noun sg] when [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PowerGen , which along with the other English generator , National Power , makes up 50 per cent of BR 's freight business , said the contract would be cancelled from next spring when BR privatisation is due to get under way . |
| 2 | He was paving the way to amusing himself with me in the future when Mme Chaillot was out of town . |
| 3 | They won a penalty just after half-time when Martin Ling was pulled down , but Craig Maskell threw the kick away and with it went Swindon 's chances . |
| 4 | What is absolutely sure is that Montini , even during the first session when Pope John was alive , provided the plan that saved the Council from chaos and then , on becoming pope , saw it patiently through to the end despite formidable difficulties . |
| 5 | Probably the best illustration of the assisting method in action during the course comes in the fifth session when Somerset practitioners take the logic of working with the problem in the community to its ultimate conclusion . |
| 6 | But it all got a bit too much at one late night plenary session when Graham Thompson was challenged about his language . |
| 7 | When she was a girl of eight , she witnessed the horrors of war when Apley Castle was stormed and partially burned down by parliamentarian troops . |
| 8 | The Jeep Wranglers receiving so much stick last week were the direct descendants of the vehicle which first surfaced in the Second World War when Ford mass produced the Jeep ( GP from General Purpose ) runabouts to take the invading allies to Berlin just as fast as the film crews could follow the generals . |
| 9 | Their silence during the war when Winston Churchill ordered they could only be rung as a warning of invasion . |
| 10 | One such association was with R.A.F. Medmenham , the origins of which perhaps date to the early part of the last War when Danesfield House at Medmenham was taken over by the R.A.F. as its photographic unit , although the first reference in the Minutes is October 1953 . |
| 11 | At 3.30 on the 25th , almost the precise moment when Sergeant Kunze was leaping into the moat of Fort Douaumont , de Castelnau was telephoning his conclusions to G.Q.G. Verdun could be saved . |
| 12 | We are here at the moment when Iran news it pledge to History to bear witness to the immense gratitude of an entire people to you , immortal Hero of History , founder of the worlds oldest empire , great liberator of all time , worthy son of mankind . |
| 13 | Amazingly , the euphoria of the moment when Jim Milligan secured his vital ½ point is still there to be savoured . |
| 14 | I did n't actually see anyone touch their forelock , but from the moment when Mrs Field accompanied the entry of the turkey with blasts of a hunting horn , to shots of Hannah primly seated , timidly moving one foot to the music , I knew this was a world far removed , not only in distance but in time , from the pace of urban life in which I move . ’ |
| 15 | Observers of the DHSS 's Medicines Division , including former employees , see nothing but panic at the moment when Kenneth Clarke , the new health minister , decided to suspend Opren 's licence . |
| 16 | Hilary lingered , and managed to seize on a moment when Bill Clough was talking to Greg to exchange his low words with Rose . |
| 17 | This is the moment when Francis Tuthill conquered the world . |
| 18 | There are Billie-Jean King 's skills on display and that magical moment when Virginia Wade finally won the title for Britain . |
| 19 | Up to 10,000 armed Palestinians live in Sidon and the surrounding hills , and the PLO is bound to be accused by its enemies of involvement in the kidnappings at the very moment when President Mubarak of Egypt is trying to involve PLO supporters in peace talks with Israel . |
| 20 | Especially the moment when Sir Edward Parkes , surveying university gloom , announced : ‘ Unknown genius must be allowed to flower . ’ |
| 21 | One commentator described it as the moment when de Gaulle 's spell was broken . |
| 22 | Some time between the moment when John Bright indignantly denied being a democrat and the early twentieth century there was a reversal of official and public attitudes towards democracy . |
| 23 | They almost achieved the former on the stroke of injury-time when Kevin Ball headed against the underside of Jim Leighton 's bar . |
| 24 | Tynemouth went further ahead after the interval when Jonathan Thomson found himself with a scoring opportunity after a rare mistake by Lee . |
| 25 | After going 2–0 up in 32 minutes through a goal by Lesley Hobley and a penalty by Denise Shorney , Hightown reduced the deficit a minute before the interval when Jackie Crook scored from the penalty spot . |
| 26 | Next year 's swimwear recalls an era when Deborah Kerr frolicked in the waves with Burt Lancaster in From Here To Eternity , and Esther Williams was the original bathing beauty . |
| 27 | They managed to part that night with no more than a friendly kiss , but the following evening when Mrs Wallington again went early to bed was more difficult . |
| 28 | But Jane had always been close to her mother and , almost inevitably , there came an evening when Mrs Connachan inadvertently prised open the floodgates . |
| 29 | They had been at supper on that far-distant evening when Mr Curdle , white with panic , had drummed madly on the glass of the hall door . |
| 30 | On Thursday 14 February the Cabinet had had its annual pre-Budget meeting when Nigel Lawson warned that public spending was still too high . |