Example sentences of "[noun pl] when [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police were still clearing the hotel and nearby homes when the bomb , abandoned in a Volvo car , partly exploded at 1.20am . |
| 2 | The degree of involvement varied greatly — from genuine joint consultation on all the farm business to the handling of emergencies when the husband was away . |
| 3 | and picking out the winners when the going gets rough at Ascot . |
| 4 | The tranquiliser and the bottle are poor comforters when the time comes to part for ever from those we love . |
| 5 | The parent company , perhaps in France or in the USA , will probably have taken a portfolio of beauty pictures when the products were initially launched in their home country . |
| 6 | Video pictures are recorded in the form of overlapping magnetic signals which can not be cut and respliced without severely disrupting the pictures when the tape is played back . |
| 7 | We were always led to believe there were no survivors when the Lorelei blew up . |
| 8 | But the words had hardly passed his lips when the shot struck him . |
| 9 | I was within half a mile of Darrowby with the lights of the little town beginning to wink between the bare roadside branches when a car approached , went past , then I heard a squeal of brakes as it stopped and began to double back . |
| 10 | In 1874 Beecher 's career received a setback of sorts when a newspaper editor with whom he had worked sued him for alienating his wife 's affections . |
| 11 | At PC World , Mr Murray is conscious of the need to allay misgivings about after-sales care voiced by computer manufacturers when the superstore concept was mooted in the UK . |
| 12 | They were speedily , if only temporarily , relieved of their worries when a head appeared amidst the gently rolling waves a short distance from the beach , which soon resolved into the — quite pleasing — shape of a woman struggling exhaustedly out of the sea and up the beach beside the jetty . |
| 13 | Suddenly the senior courtiers who had sniffily averted their eyes when the Princess approached were forced to treat her with more respect . |
| 14 | She leant her head back against the hard cushion on the swivel chair , not bothering to open her eyes when the door opened again . |
| 15 | I could n't believe my eyes when the consultant in charge of my pregnancy came round the antenatal ward in my local hospital , puffing away on a cigar . |
| 16 | They are asked to open their eyes when the sound stops . |
| 17 | Another theory was that the tusks protect the eyes when the babirusa is hunting for food among thorny undergrowth . |
| 18 | Remarkable results have been achieved with children from mainstream and special schools when the teaching of mathematics has been opened up in order to allow pupils to find their own strategies and solutions to problems . |
| 19 | Views on the tests were also sought from the teachers and their pupils in these second phase schools when the tests were administered . |
| 20 | Two passengers were operating lap-top computers when a Boeing 747-400 started oscillating left and right during flight . |
| 21 | Even before this time , the cost of war was beginning to sap enthusiasm for it : loans on wool and in wool , accompanied by embargoes and dubious credit arrangements , were testing the patience and loyalty of more than the merchants who assented to these measures ; purveyances , now being collected with a frequency and ruthlessness to match the 1290s , were provoking deep unrest in wide sections of the community , lay and clerical ; efforts to muster arrays for defence against the Scots and French antagonized the clergy when the requests for support were directed to diocesan , instead of provincial , synods . |
| 22 | Aged 18 in 1932 , Alf Jnr was on Sunderland 's books when a motor accident put an early end to his career . |
| 23 | An American editor deleted a comment from one of her books when a father tells his daughter : ‘ Do n't bother about school because you 're a pretty little thing and will make someone a good wife . ’ |
| 24 | Thus much of the ‘ business ’ is taken out of worship , without numbers to be announced , places to be found , rustling of papers and shutting of books when the music is finished . |
| 25 | The FRED proposes that warrants are credited to shareholders ' funds and that a gain is recognised in the statement of total recognised gains and losses when a warrant lapses unexercised . |
| 26 | Since the winding resistance contributes 1 ohm to the total phase resistance : Forcing resistance = 19 ohms This resistance must be able to dissipate the power losses when the phase is continuously excited by the rated current ( 2 A ) . |
| 27 | It could offer opportunities for embarrassing independent lords , as Alphonse Jourdain of Toulouse showed when he assisted the rebellious inhabitants of Montpellier against William VI ; but his own financial losses when the right to take tallage or forced loans from Toulouse escaped his grasp in 1147 , outweighed any advantage elsewhere . |
| 28 | The driver lost his legs when the vehicle hit a motorway bridge . |
| 29 | In the video ‘ Soccer 's Hard Men ’ Jones talks about players ' illegal use of the elbow , the gouging of eyes , punching , pulling hairs under the armpits and deliberately studding opponents legs when the ball has gone . |
| 30 | He suffered serious injuries to his arms and legs when the dog bit him while they were playing . |