Example sentences of "[adv] when they [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were all crossing together when they saw the skid , the boy on the motorbike , out of control and ploughing towards the sedate black Morris Minor . |
| 2 | Like ordinary people in general , old people usually show up vividly in the record only when they become a problem . |
| 3 | It was a wild time , and even the old women were poachers , he said , with the aid of a harmless looking dog that barked only when they reached the cottage with a fresh killed rabbit . |
| 4 | His tale was verified by another member of the party Hawick 's B international hooker Jim Hay , who recounted that his fellow Teri , Jim Renwick , had been so intent on chasing and tackling the electrifyingly quick Eric Rush that he had failed to notice a helicopter land on the pitch and it was only when they felt the down-draft from the rotor blades that they put on the anchors . |
| 5 | Heat pumps are economical only when they exploit a low temperature energy source costing little or nothing . |
| 6 | Only when they saw the hooded men with blood-covered knives approaching their cars did they realise what lay in store for them . |
| 7 | Will the Minister of State confirm that young people will be placed in secure accommodation only when they represent a real danger to the public ? |
| 8 | Multiple residential schemes work well only when they involve a total plan for the grounds and setting of a house , and provide for their continued upkeep . |
| 9 | It 's with an apostrophe is an abbreviation for it is , because you never , and I I think those three little rules there only apply only nouns have an apostrophe , pronouns never have an apostrophe and it 's only nouns ending in s , have an apostrophe and it 's only when they own the thing that follows , except when they , when they do n't end with an s , but you know the exception of men 's , women 's , children 's and sheep . |
| 10 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 11 | The inmates had rudimentary weapons for just this moment , and Fujimori backed down when they fought the troops . |
| 12 | I used to have three but I lost three sheep down when they built the university , and I have n't been able to find them , so I thought that they 'd be useful to try and locate them , you know . |
| 13 | See they ai n't got the concrete roads down to put them down when they bought the farm off Sam years later . |
| 14 | Is n't that what families look for in safes especially when they invite a lawyer to see fair play . |
| 15 | But the longer Ross remained unpromoted , the more offended his friends would become , especially when they saw the sons of other freeholders advanced in rank . |
| 16 | As you know , Piper , the staff at the Commando Camp have been accepting free board and lodgings at my Police Station for some time now , especially when they miss the last transport back to camp . ’ |
| 17 | really great it was , you know I did n't really think it would turn out as big as it has done you know , but it 's turned out beautiful has n't it really , yeah we was , I was thrilled especially when they built the new houses round the front we used to go and keep looking at them , little did I think I would get one , and the housing officer came one day and he said would you like one of the new ones , I said I would and it was four bedroom but we got , you see we 've got the other bedroom over my daughter-in-law 's , so me and hubby used to have the en right down a long passage and the bedroom was over like the sit you 've got a bedroom over the sitting room like see and she erm , we used to have so the children did n't make a noise to disturb her so my hubby and I had that room , yeah , it was quite nice it was , nice house , I erm , you know , enjoyed being there , bringing up the family , you want plenty of room you 've got a big family do n't you really ? |
| 18 | For some people this is very difficult , especially when they have no internal model from their early experience of family life to assist them . |
| 19 | Even so the courts should take some account of the costs of implementing their decisions when they sentence , especially when they have a choice of suitable penal ties . |
| 20 | ‘ The Maltese have improved dramatically and are gaining respect so it would be impossible to dismiss them , especially when they have a striker like Carmel Busuttil who has scored 16 goals for his country . ’ |
| 21 | This has serious implications for policy-makers , especially when they consider the future of the DRAs where the risks are greater and the margins more extreme . |
| 22 | Silicone particles have no affinity with themselves so when they form the ingredients of a conditioner , any particles not attracted to the hair are washed away and create no build-up . |
| 23 | So when they brought the seat back it was about quarter quarter to six I think . |
| 24 | Particularly s this so when they ignore the warnings of their advisors on matters like budget and timescale . |
| 25 | ‘ I had to spend a month in a cast , ’ he recalls , ‘ so when they set the cast , I had them set it so I could move my arm just enough to play . ’ |
| 26 | So when they see an apparent egg that is really a stone , the fact of its being a stone ( not that they have found a stone on the beach , say , which happens to look just like an egg ) swamps their judgement ; similarly when they see a white card changing colour — the blueness is salient not the fact that it started white . |
| 27 | And so when they changed the character to be twenty five in the film which w Mi Mike 's age , it totally changed the piece , totally and completely changed the piece . |
| 28 | One common feature is that the vowels in question are more like or when they precede another vowel , less so when they precede a consonant or pause . |
| 29 | They moved in when they outgrew a caravan on the site . |
| 30 | They managed to get away when they persuaded the man to stop for baby food . |