Example sentences of "[conj] when [prep] [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was my home for many months , so much so that when at last I was discharged , I was loath to leave . |
| 2 | I knew that when at last I was demobilised from the Waaf I would have to return to my peacetime occupation as a secretary in London , for the simple reason that my employers had been paying me my full salary all the time I had been in the Forces , that is , making up the difference between my Waaf pay and what I would have been earning with them . |
| 3 | And when at last it drifts through the window and fluffs all round his feet and legs , even then he does not let himself be disturbed . |
| 4 | Alain was fascinated by the scheme and when at last it became a reality , he asked if he could take an active part . |
| 5 | Once , hearing an unaccountable noise in front of him , which ceased on the instant , he kept still for a long time ; and when at last he moved cautiously forward , found Silver crouching behind a tussock of cock's-foot for fear of the sound of his own approach . |
| 6 | The man went on waiting , almost as if he were teasing Stephen , and when at last he did move , it was suddenly and with a strange dancing skip . |
| 7 | Eventually he pushed his hand inside her brassiere and began kneading one of her breasts , but instead of responding she lay motionless and waited as she always did ; gradually the movements of his hand grew slower , the rhythm of his breathing more regular , and when at last he lay still she disentangled his hand from her twisted clothing and slipped out from underneath him . |
| 8 | As he watched them , he released the spell , and they began to rouse , and when at last he turned to Dierdriu , she was awake and listening to him . |
| 9 | And when at last he got a ringing tone , it was several minutes before it was answered . |
| 10 | She told herself not to let negative thoughts take over , but , night after night , her will-power dissolved into helplessness , and when at last she slept , her past life rose before her like a grotesque apparition . |
| 11 | Sarah was worried because it was getting late , and when at last she was out of the hospital she started walking quickly towards Clerkenwell , but she had n't gone far before a hackney cab drew up . |
| 12 | And when at last she emerged , beaten and dull , it was to find that her sister was waiting . |
| 13 | And when at last she fell asleep it was to find herself in the château , running endlessly through a labyrinth of rooms , searching for something that was always just beyond her reach . |
| 14 | Its grandiose modernization plan of the early 1980s was presented as its contribution to the ‘ struggle against unemployment ’ ( RENFE 1982m : 9 ) , and when in 1981 it negotiated with the unions an increase in staff of 7,000 , the chairman defended the agreement as ‘ an appropriate response to [ RENFE 's ] public service task ’ ( quoted in El País , 12 December 1981 ) . |
| 15 | His malevolence towards Pound , his friend since their college days in Philadelphia , is extraordinary ; and when in 1920 he amplified this piece in the prologue to his Kora in Hell , Williams compounded the offence by quoting selectively from a private letter that Pound had written him . |
| 16 | But when at last they halted in front of me , their eyes also held disappointment . |
| 17 | But when at last she spoke , she did so simply and directly , for although the moment was solemn , and although it was probably historic as well , these were not creatures who would react favourably to grandiloquence . |
| 18 | And during the years when Pound was most under Yeats 's influence , Pound too embraced this ideal — as when in 1912 he went with Yeats and some others to pay an act of homage to one of the last English representatives of the type , the Sussex squire Wilfred Scawen Blunt : |