Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] when [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other vulnerable lakes endure episodes of acidity in which pH drops below 5.6 when a rainstorm or snowmelt flushes acid , sulphate or aluminium into the catchment . |
| 2 | Smokey was only 18 when The Miracles made ‘ Get A Job ’ , and they had a million seller with ‘ Shop Around ’ less than two years later . |
| 3 | The difference between these conditions was striking : 154 passives were produced when the acted-upon was more animate and only 3 when the actor was more animate . |
| 4 | The young man , who is now 23 years old , was only 16 when a car ploughed into him and a couple of friends as they walked home from a party . |
| 5 | Werner Bischof died young : he was only 38 when the Jeep in which he and two companions were travelling plunged into a gorge in the Andes on May 16 1954 . |
| 6 | Janice was only 13 when the doctor first diagnosed her headaches as migraine . |
| 7 | That made me just seventeen when the War broke out . " |
| 8 | We were both still 16 when the doctor confirmed I was pregnant . |
| 9 | If you are under 60 when the advance is made your life is insured at no extra cost . |
| 10 | A If you are under 60 when the advance is made your life is insured at no extra cost . |
| 11 | Shanti was nearly three when the formalities of adoption were completed . |
| 12 | The most serious attacks occurred in the decade after 998 when the Norsemen set up winter quarters in what was to become their favourite location , the Isle of Wight , and ‘ lived off the land ’ by repeatedly plundering the south coast . |
| 13 | And I can only have been about nine when a schoolfriend proudly showed snaps of her mother fancy-dressed as ‘ No-one loves a fairy when she 's 40 ’ . |
| 14 | This continued until about 1939 when the ceremony passed into history . |
| 15 | The manoeuvre was almost complete when the car started weaving across the road . |
| 16 | It was around six when the party broke up in disarray . |
| 17 | What you are aiming for is something like Fig. 9.3 where the pitch is reduced to around zero when the model is on its side , goes down to negative when inverted , back to zero when the helicopter is on its other side and finally back to normal . |
| 18 | However , the evidence of the fireman who was on the footplate of the engine that was hauling the express disproved the allegations of the railway company , for he had seen them together on the train after it had arrived at Birmingham New Street Station around 2.30 when the children had waved at him . |
| 19 | One of the earliest documented encounters took place in AD 109 when a dolphin befriended a boy swimming offshore at the Roman settlement of Hippo in northern Africa , and thereafter returned day after day to play with other children , who slowly overcame their initial fear . |