Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] ['s] [noun sg] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believe they entered into a sort of conspiracy to keep alive Montaine 's existence when no one else was around to dissi-pate her spectral control . |
| 2 | Keegan , though , declined to look beyond this afternoon 's match when he left St James 's Park with his 14-man squad yesterday . |
| 3 | K. Peacock , of Belgrave Terrace , Hurworth Place , Darlington , remembers the whole class stood for a few minutes ' silence when told the news at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School . |
| 4 | DROMORE High lifted their third successive High Schools ' Cup when they defeated perennial opponents Limavady High in yesterday 's final shoot-out at Ravenhill . |
| 5 | My master said : for my dear mother 's sake I will be a friend to you and you shall take care of my linen — God bless him — and gave me four golden guineas which were in my old lady 's pocket when she died . |
| 6 | ‘ That was the first High Queen 's instruction when it was being raised from the rock . |
| 7 | But a distaste for gossip should not be construed as a total reluctance to express the truth about another person 's behaviour when no possible alternative exists as a way of defending myself . |
| 8 | ‘ But a distaste for gossip' , he read , glinting with agreement , ‘ should not be construed as a total reluctance to express the truth about another person 's behaviour when no possible alternative exists as a way of defending myself . |
| 9 | What is an old woman 's heart when compared to the joys of dancing half naked down a catwalk while the world watches ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You 're so beautiful , how can you be so callous of another woman 's unhappiness when you look like an angel direct from heaven ? ’ |
| 11 | WOMAN doctor Shonagh Mitchell saved a newly-born baby 's life when their ambulance crashed . |
| 12 | It was usual for the Girls to stay at the English Girls ' Club when they first arrived . |
| 13 | They LIED last Tuesday in their weekly works ' newsletter when they said : ‘ Reprocessing has been temporarily halted because of maintenance work . ’ |
| 14 | It is a tribute to the smoothness of the operation that many private pilots do not realise that they have effectively moved into another country 's airspace when they enter the Jersey zone . |
| 15 | Stockholm-based DJ Dr Alban — who has shot to No 4 with It 's My Life admits : ‘ I was drilling this guy 's tooth when all of a sudden blood started spurting everywhere . |
| 16 | In the corner of the picture was a holdall , a scientist would say it was the same as that used to weigh down Chalky White 's body when it was found in the lake near Cirencester . |
| 17 | I 'd like to see the look on their top guy 's face when that happens . |
| 18 | Club managers are now hoping they will be entitled to an extra hour 's opening when the clocks go back in October . |
| 19 | It is so unlike Natalia 's reaction when finding the Tutor and Vera together . |
| 20 | Chief Supt Bill Hills , head of the force 's uniform operations department , will have completed more than 35 years ' service when he leaves the job . |
| 21 | I heard them no sooner I turned to walk away which I did after a brief moment 's hesitation when I wrestled with the foolish notion of somehow eliciting a confession out of the florid man that he was lying and that Leicester Square did indeed exist ; not realizing then that he was right , and that there really was no such place as Lei-cester Square . |
| 22 | Anyone who has peered too closely into a cut-throat finch 's nest when the bird is sitting on eggs will have experienced the disturbing feeling that , very suddenly , their eye is far too close to a snake for comfort . |
| 23 | That might help undo memories of living in or around Lucca in a displaced persons ' camp when they left Trieste ; a little cosseted security makes up for the times when there were seventeen families in one room . |
| 24 | Martin Foyle and Lee Nogan , dear oh dear , they got in each other 's way when there was an empty net in front of them . |
| 25 | A simple X-ray spotted an inch-long needle left in the 56-year-old mum 's bottom when she was giving birth to her daughter , Jane , in Rotherham , Yorks . |
| 26 | Trainer Jimmy Etherington , who submitted a ‘ friendly ’ claim of £9,354 to ensure taking the filly back to Yorkshire , is now looking forward to a long winter 's break when the turf season closes on Monday . |
| 27 | If you get a a pension based on the fact that you 're your late husband 's widow when you are no longer your late husband 's widow , but somebody 's wife they do n't have to pay you that pension . |
| 28 | It was very hard work but you felt , well I 've done a good day 's work when you 'd finished . |
| 29 | ‘ He is the late King 's son when all is said . |
| 30 | Imagine my poor Aunt 's reaction when told by a shocked neighbour that her eldest daughter was walking out with a Chinaman . |