Example sentences of "[adv] when [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | I have almost no social life , free only when my disabled mother can manage my child for a few hours . |
2 | Only when his first movement unleashed the pounding headache bequeathed to him by half a bottle of the college 's specially shipped port did he begin to regret the decision . |
3 | Only when his third child was born severely handicapped did his potency fail . |
4 | Picasso falters only when his colossal talent is hampered by the inadequate instruction of his teachers or by the limitation of his pictorial sources . |
5 | Tribesmen might indeed be benighted savages , but they could still stir the liberal conscience — especially when their very primitiveness and simplicity made them all the more vulnerable to exploitation by unscrupulous Europeans . |
6 | Publicity is no good for my business , especially when its bad publicity . |
7 | Especially when my own husband has only been dead for just over a week . |
8 | It 's said John Wayne started his acting career as an extra , so when you next watch Inspector Morse , look out for the people of Oxford who could be stars of the making . |
9 | Er obviously when you first start and Kim found this as well , when she first started |
10 | Pressman , understudy to Wednesday 's England keeper Chris Woods , looks certain to quit Hillsborough anyway when his present deal expires next summer . |
11 | Things got off to a bad start anyway when my Reliant Robin was crushed by Pahdra Singh 's Bentley as we jostled for a parking place . |
12 | Can we really trust Mr Kinnock to handle them responsibly when his recent positions have been so erratic ? |
13 | But there 's many a missus as needs to be home when her old man comes in from work on a Thursday , if she 's to get her proper share of his pay-packet . |
14 | He then compounded that error six months later when his undeclared policy of shadowing the German mark , at a time when sterling was in high demand , resulted in a reduction of interest rates unwarranted by domestic conditions . |
15 | Mr McWhinney ( 55 ) , of Drumhark Road , Comber , died instantly when his single-engined Pulsar plunged to the ground in front of horrified spectators . |
16 | And now when we first start off er I know what it 's like . |
17 | The status which nuclear power achieved because of its link with the defence of the realm was also retained even when its day-to-day operations were more involved with producing peaceful electricity . |
18 | To begin with , it is more likely to get an early warning of the cheetah 's approach , for even when its own head is down grazing , other heads are up and scanning the surrounding country ready to sound an alarm with a snort . |
19 | Once these conditions were altered , children clearly contrasted the meanings of more and less even when their lexical knowledge was still imperfect . |
20 | NOTE Many people can still hear , even when their other senses appear to be lost . |
21 | Even when their specific characteristics are recognized , they are given different interpretations and names . |
22 | Our institutions were set up by middle-class people and the staff , even when their own origins are working-class , reflect those values . |
23 | Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine , they still think that he or she is wonderful . |
24 | However , in real life such referentially obscure and ambiguous material is rare and Thorndyke therefore investigated memory for passages which were relatively coherent even when their precise theme was not specified in advance . |
25 | Even when what few benefits might exist were pre-empted over my head by two strangers . |
26 | Even when our conscious feelings are not in a state of conflict , it is difficult to portray them relatively accurately in words , but it is much more so when they are . |
27 | Even when your growing brain |
28 | He caused more suffering among his allow drivers than any other man I ever saw race and the only man who could possibly come closer to him as a road-hog , even when his own position was hopeless , was Riccardo Patrese , a far more refined driver than Clay in every other respect . |
29 | In our day and age , can you think of someone who has been so full of the Spirit that he 's had the courage to preach even when his own life was at stake ? |
30 | The 42-year-old sports writer interviewed the Chelsea boss six weeks ago when their blossoming affair was still a secret . |