Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] [adv] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | Building materials are currently running a small surplus , but imports far outstripped exports in the housing boom of the late 1980s and can be expected to do so again when the construction industry picks up . |
| 2 | Town planning needs and traffic needs clash most openly when it comes to squares and junctions , which is why the town at that point must reflect the needs of planning and give least consideration to the needs of traffic . |
| 3 | The database administrator has to think very carefully when setting up numerous lists as to whether their use will justify the overheads . |
| 4 | As Althusser put it ( 1969 : 113 ) : ‘ the economic dialectic is never active in the pure state ; in History , these instances , the superstructures , etc. — are never seen to step respect-fully aside when their work is done … |
| 5 | the economic dialectic is never active in the pure state ; in History , these instances , the superstructures , etc. — are never seen to step respectfully aside when their work is done or , when the Time comes , as his pure phenomena , to scatter before His Majesty the Economy as he strides along the royal road of the Dialectic . |
| 6 | the economic dialectic is never active in the pure state ; in History , these instances , the superstructures , etc. — are never seen to step respectfully aside when their work is done or , when the Time comes , as his pure phenomena , to scatter before His Majesty the Economy as he strides along the royal road of the Dialectic . |
| 7 | He 's probably also going to do very well when he gets there . |
| 8 | The fourth boy , however , slipped and fell to his knees and was only beginning to scramble upright again when the fender caught his chest with a thud that shook the vehicle . |
| 9 | You may well decide to twist even further when using the front punch , but beware that your situation is weakened should the opponent immediately counter — attack . |
| 10 | They continue to fall away alarmingly when it comes to formal examinations and so decrease their own chances of gaining stimulating and challenging employment . |
| 11 | Many mothers continue to work part-time even when their children start school , so they can be there when they come home in the afternoon and so holiday childcare arrangements are a little easier . |
| 12 | The Pittsburgh group also described a similar constellation of findings and noted that HBV infection seems to progress more rapidly when it recurs in a second allograft . |
| 13 | The visitors might have replied almost immediately when Mark Stepney rounded the defence but put his shot wide . |
| 14 | Half the squadron had a go at Woolley , popping off a couple of rounds in his general direction and then having to dive away fast when he swung towards them . |
| 15 | Instead of relaxing and letting nature take its course — it would probably have passed quite easily when he passed his water — he panicked and tried to remove the safety pin by not so gentle manipulations from the outside . |
| 16 | They became worried later on when Guy 's temperature went up dramatically , so he was transferred to a local major hospital . |
| 17 | The trousers are not water resistant , but do dry very quickly when wet . |
| 18 | Sometimes , Britten seems to have written more naturally when he did n't have words to set . |
| 19 | In such circumstances the state has sought to mitigate the consequences of recession on small firms although it seems to have acted more effectively when the existence of a larger company is threatened . |
| 20 | In such circumstances the state has sought to mitigate the consequences of recession on small firms although it seems to have acted more effectively when the existence of a larger company is threatened . |
| 21 | He had taken the money to pay off debts and had continued to do so even when bereaved relatives were desperate for cash to pay undertakers ' bills . |
| 22 | He had taken the money to pay off debts and had continued to do so even when bereaved relatives were desperate for cash to pay undertakers ' bills . |
| 23 | Never batted an eyelid when we were all wondering where Gebrec had got to … although she did react rather oddly when Dieter showed up , ’ she added thoughtfully . |
| 24 | She had marched indignantly out when the proposal had been put to her and the matter had remained unresolved ever since . |
| 25 | The restrictions of office life might have formed a permanent barrier to any expression of their feelings for each other , but their relationship had grown appreciably closer when they had both stayed for part of one summer at the home of a friend , Margaret Behrens , in Mentone — although even here Valerie Fletcher still called him " Mr Eliot " . |
| 26 | As the morning mist had risen long ago when I first left the forge , so the evening mist was rising now , and in the clear moonlight I saw no shadow of another separation from her . |
| 27 | I took her hand in mine , and we went out of the ruined place ; and , as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge , so , the evening mists were rising now , and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed me , I saw no shadow of another parting from her . |
| 28 | But in this period , his several talents which had shone so clearly when he was much younger and somehow been lost in the scrum of his long adolescence , began to regroup . |
| 29 | She knew she had gone too far when his eyes narrowed to glittering blue slits . |
| 30 | He was still shocked that he had reacted so strongly when that jovial Irishman turned up . |