Example sentences of "[noun pl] when [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | • Marlon Brando became a star to underwear manufacturers when he greatly boosted their sales by appearing in a vest in the film ‘ A Streetcar Named Desire ’ . |
| 2 | In and among these foot-in-mouth moments came David Coleman 's finest hour … the day at the 1972 Munich Olympics when he truly showed his class . |
| 3 | The surprises when I actually checked . |
| 4 | Hard as he is working on the switch , it may be that Bayfield is being groomed in the rigours of international rugby so as to be better able to step into Dooley 's shoes when he finally retires , probably at the end of this season . |
| 5 | The CAT scan apparently showed no damage to the brain , so it was something of a shock to the doctors as well as to Dawn 's parents when she finally came round from the coma after about a week with a left hemiplegia . |
| 6 | You 're high all the time except for those periods when you just crash because your adrenalin has left you . ’ |
| 7 | They have good days and bad days : days when things seem relatively easy , they are on the ball , and a lot gets done , and days when they just ca n't face it and phone in sick — only to feel much perkier half-an-hour after putting down the phone , and a little guilty that ‘ I could have gone in if I 'd really had to ’ . |
| 8 | As in Matthew , the isolated promise of the Spirit in the Mission Charge points beyond the resurrection to the days when they really are engaged in the mission . |
| 9 | I 'm in the easy stage , the first few days when you just sleep and eat , but quite soon I 'll be in the hell of denial , Mr Breakspear . ’ |
| 10 | There were days when you just could n't talk to him , when he stared at you as if what you said made no sense , and then gave you answers you could n't understand . |
| 11 | There were days when I never even saw you ! |
| 12 | Forever on the move , meeting new faces , constantly in demand socially whenever she was off duty , Liza Tremayne found that there were longer and longer periods between the days when she still suffered black despair over the thought that she would never again see the man she so resembled in character and who had given her , had she known it , more love than he had ever bestowed upon any other woman . |
| 13 | I only eat at the Vetch-Retch these days when someone else is paying , which is much the same as saying when England wins at cricket . |
| 14 | Le Pen sparked protests when he recently flew to Britain at the invitation of the right-wing Western Goals group . |
| 15 | They wiggled their hips when everyone else was too self-conscious to sniff on stage . |
| 16 | The connection time was very tight and there were some weeks when I rarely caught the 7 o'clock bus to Ferryhill and had to wait for the 7.15am bus which takes a longer route and delayed my arrival even more . |
| 17 | HENRY WHARTON set up the biggest fight in Yorkshire for years when he successfully defended his Commonwealth super-middleweight title by stopping Australian Rod Carr in eight rounds at Leeds Town Hall on Wednesday . |
| 18 | I caught up , did my A levels when everybody else did them . |
| 19 | The Officer had gone a few yards when he suddenly fell to the ground . |
| 20 | One mentioned her skill at communicating with patients who had had a tracheostomy and another found that she could lip-read patients when nobody else could understand them . |
| 21 | So unfortunately Geoff wo n't be able to repeat the service he has given other friends when he eventually retires . |
| 22 | She was thinking about pigs and children when she suddenly saw the Cheshire Cat in a tree . |
| 23 | Women who told me that their partners accused them of using tears to manipulate them agreed that there were times when they deliberately wept , but said that it was often the only way they could get their partner 's attention . |
| 24 | There are times when they almost entirely break surface and re-enter the water with a resounding slap of their tails . |
| 25 | In spite of having a range of injected plastic mouldings , there are always times when there just is n't anything for the size of a spar , the angle of fit , or sufficiently shock-absorbing to accept a crash , or to permit a kite to be folded . |
| 26 | ‘ There were times when it certainly seemed to be more important than our marriage . ’ |
| 27 | There are times when you just need your husband . ’ |
| 28 | THERE are times when you just want to give up , lie in bed or in the garden and let someone else do all the work . |
| 29 | Being an honest man , he tried to answer honestly , ; and there were times when he clearly found it difficult to reconcile the absolutism of his Church 's dogma with the dictate of his own conscience . |
| 30 | There were times when he almost believed that Luther feigned his disability . |