Example sentences of "[noun sg] when [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , Peggy remembered her own mam saying as how there were certain folk , including herself , who believed it were Luther Reynolds ' fault when his second wife died of the fever . |
| 2 | The child was only freed from a fume-filled car when her frantic mother began knocking on the locked garage door . |
| 3 | It would be unthinkable for you to consider David here , who has been more of a son than you ever deserved … the stepson who stayed by your side when your own son deserted you ; and who even forgave you when his beloved mother died because of your neglect . ’ |
| 4 | John Hey 's eldest son , Melling ( 1808–65 ) , was described as a fancy weaver when his elder children were baptised between 1836 and 1842 , but when his last child was baptised in 1846 he was working as a labourer and in the 1851 census returns his occupation was given as groom . |
| 5 | Refusing to accept defeat when his early pamphlets were legally declared immoral in 1909 , he continued his writing and distributed his ‘ Books of the Nameless Love ’ underground . |
| 6 | But what better way of fooling the enemy when your Prime Minister was going to one place than by having a double suggest he was somewhere else altogether ? |
| 7 | It told how an empire of six hundred miles wide and nearly three thousand miles long , so big the Incas called it Tahuantinsuyo , the Four Quarters of the Earth , had been engaged in a fratricidal war of succession when its miserable future was planned by two uneducated adventurers , Francisco Pizarro and Diego de Almagro , and by a priest , Father Hernando de Luque . |
| 8 | It is no accident that the liberation of women , such as it is , should form part of a wider movement of liberation in general ; liberation for one part of the ‘ not-men ’ is bound to have a knock-on effect when your fellow groups are sometimes quite literally identified with you . |
| 9 | I did n't wonder why she 'd taken to using a typewriter when her last messages to me were handwritten , and I did n't ask myself how Edouard could have talked to me all that time without mentioning there was an envelope for me . ’ |
| 10 | I have got two children and I 'm hoping to go to college when my youngest daughter is three cos I ca n't get her , ca n't go until she is three cos the creche wo n't take them until they 're out of nappies and three year old . |
| 11 | But investment tax credits , combined with tax hikes , help only capital intensive companies , and do nothing much for profitable , labour intensive ones — the ones that need help most ( people are a luxury when their future benefits can push GM into declaring the largest corporate loss in history . ) |
| 12 | A road tanker driver had a miracle escape when his fuel-laden vehicle collided with a freight train on an unmanned level crossing near Billingham . |
| 13 | They report that 9 out of 31 divorced women and 11 out of 33 divorced men returned to their parents ' home when their first marriage ended . |
| 14 | Such occasions are not the rule though , for their whole design suggests a fish that is more at home when his hollow belly is gripping the bottom and the surging current is pushing down on his drooping snout and coursing past his streamlined body . |
| 15 | The arbiter of taste in this instance has to be parents themselves , and much can be done to avoid unhappy experiences from the outset by determining preferences and approaches to the care of your child when your childminding arrangement begins . |
| 16 | Item 5 includes remembering that items are of different sizes , and may sometimes be shelved in different sequences : a simple enough thing when known , but the cause of much misunderstanding when its full implications ( including the need to consult catalogues ) are not realized . |
| 17 | My proposal would be that general practitioners continue to provide 24 hour availability by telephone when their particular knowledge of an individual patient is needed . |
| 18 | Wells was on the brink of death by consumption when his early work appeared . |
| 19 | He was not exactly the Australian Rugby Football Union 's pin-up boy when his Italian club Milan initially refused him permission to participate in the parade . |
| 20 | If you suffer loss as a result of the manner of an unfair dismissal , for example because you lose the chance of another job when your prospective employer learns that you have been sacked , you will be compensated for that loss . |
| 21 | Mrs Scorgie , a Darlingtonian whose grandfather , Frederick Markham , had a wine and spirits shop in the Market Place , returned to the town when her only son was ten . |
| 22 | In 1940 the old Burwell drainage commission finally accepted voluntary dissolution when its ancient pump engine collapsed beyond repair . |
| 23 | Brief Ecstasy ( 1937 ) , for example , is a powerful drama centring on a woman who has married her professor and abandoned work for a life ‘ sitting all day knitting jumpers for my husband ’ , who is then thrown into a whirlpool of desire when her one-time lover arrives at the marital home . |
| 24 | I 'll leave you to fathom that out I know you do n't like me in the room when your fathomering things out |
| 25 | City 's attackers The signs were already there for City that they might be in for a spanking when their formidable attack of Andy Cole , Leroy Rosenior and playmaker Jacki Dziekanowski were held in a tight grip in a first-half an opening 45 minutes that was marked by a spectacular 30-yard goal from Justin Channing , in the final week of his loan spell from QPR . |
| 26 | A TEENAGER who broke almost every important bone in his body when his speeding car collided with a van escaped being locked up yesterday . |
| 27 | An Imperial Fist thinks and plans his every deed meticulously , even in the crucible of combat when our spilt blood hardens like cinnabar , thanks be to Larraman 's Organ . |
| 28 | I might be able to make use of them and train to be a teacher when my own child was at school . |
| 29 | One of them recently ran out of petrol and had to do a 45-mile round trip for fuel when its total allocation for the whole shift was only 28 miles . |
| 30 | In Cuba the Communists ' early association with Batista did them great disservice when his second regime ( 1952–8 ) became increasingly corrupt and unpopular . |