Example sentences of "[adv prt] when a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the system breaks down when a company has only branches in other countries , whose assets are often seized by the local authorities . |
| 2 | And hardly had the congratulations died down when a bronze awards for safety performance arrived from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents . |
| 3 | He was eventually calmed down when a doorman sat on him . |
| 4 | do n't look at him , I 've written the answer down when a country buys the two , Mark take your coat off , give me your walkman , not suppose to bring to school |
| 5 | 14 ( 14 ) BEETHOVEN : The house is turned upside down when a puppy comes to stay . |
| 6 | But within hours , police were called in when a row between the couple got out of hand . |
| 7 | Many thanks , Vic , both for stepping in when a gap had appeared in our programme , and for providing a stimulating look at an area most of us had n't seen , and indeed some views that we now never shall see . |
| 8 | CASE 1 : when a headword has been specified in the Start column a two possibilities arise as to how the form should be filled in when a number of subsequent entries are also requested to be proofed : |
| 9 | CASE 1 : when a headword has been specified in the Start column two possibilities arise as to how the form should be filled in when a number of subsequent entries are also requested to be cross-referenced . |
| 10 | They live in perpetual hope of persuading some head of chambers to take them in when a vacancy occurs ; meanwhile , to confer with a client they can only occupy someone else 's desk , by his good grace , when he is not using it . |
| 11 | At the lowest level , symptoms to which network managers are alerted include such things as a file re-transmission , while the diagnosis module steps in when a symptom repeats itself frequently and triggers a threshold , or when there is a single instance of a major network problem . |
| 12 | SHOPPERS cashed in when a power cut shut down a supermarket 's electronic tills . |
| 13 | He made his worst start for years , found himself jammed in fourth place and then thought his race for the title might be over when a warning light flickered in the cockpit of the 200mph Renault-Williams . |
| 14 | Maybe it 's not activated — by which I mean ready to go off when a vessel passes over it — until the ticking stops . |
| 15 | Parental leave — which would allow either parent to take time off when a child is born — has been blocked by Britain for several years . |
| 16 | Laidlaw trailed off when a car suddenly came into view at the other end of the dimly lit street . |
| 17 | Some of this pollen is inevitably brushed off when a bee visits another flower , but bearing in mind that only a few grains are needed to bring about cross-fertilisation , and that a bee on a single journey may collect two million , it is clear that the price a plant pays for this transport is a very high one . |
| 18 | Six and a half thousand homes had their power supplies cut off when a fire broke out at an electricity sub-station . |
| 19 | Residents and shoppers in Girvan were recently confronted with a very smelly problem , as hundreds of fish were left to rot in freezers that had been switched off when a shop closed down and the previous owners omitted to tell the managing agent . |
| 20 | Four years later , his head was smashed and his ear partly ripped off when a horse ducked under the starting stalls . |
| 21 | He had almost decided to hang up when a man 's voice came on the line , sounding muzzy and oddly worried . |
| 22 | Great cheers went up when a hit was scored , or when the police dragged someone out on the opposite side . |
| 23 | Thus when you are the only person to get up when a lady comes into the room , or when everyone has half finished their food and you are still waiting for Grace , by standing up , for failing to lift fork and knife , you are drawing attention to the sins of omission of the others and silently rebuking them . |
| 24 | I usually stand up when a lady enters the room ( if the lady in question is one of those battling Berthas from Bermondsey who staff the Informer office , her subsequent confusion delights me ) , and I have always been anxious to place my education and superior talents at the service of the Radical Left . |
| 25 | Basically what happens when you start signing on is you go into a national unemployment computer , and that national unemployment computer will pick up , as long as you 've got the date of birth and the national insurance number , you can pick up when a person started signing o and where they 're signing , you then check with the local office to see what address they 're claiming from and what their claiming for and everything else . |
| 26 | CHART stars Pop Will Eat Itself blew up when a mix-up stopped them appearing in Sweden . |
| 27 | Petitions were sometimes drawn up when a need was felt to comment on official club policy . |
| 28 | Arizona was hit first and blew up when a bomb hit near No 2 turret exploding the magazines . |
| 29 | In September 1912 a record for fast travelling was set up when a turn-out was made in 30 seconds to a big fire at the foundry at Deanshanger . |
| 30 | Luckily his depression passed before he started offering to clean the blackboard or standing up when a teacher entered a room . |