Example sentences of "[coord] when [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the Labour government unable to control a majority of seats in the Commons , it was occasionally vulnerable to policy defeats on the occasions when the other parties were able to unite or when its own backbenchers staged guerilla attacks . |
| 2 | We shall be delighted to receive your order by telephone or when our representative visits you . |
| 3 | Problems of this kind arise when a partner is not so doing — or when our own conception of our own sexual needs is inappropriate . |
| 4 | And when they silver plate things what they tend to do I mean first th the thing When you plate something erm it follows the shape . |
| 5 | And when their great Emperor Gia Long finally rose from the Mekong delta a century ago to unify all the peoples from Saigon to Hanoi , had n't he triumphantly renamed his new empire " Viet Nam " ? |
| 6 | ‘ She was running up debts , and when her full-time employment ceased not only did she have her alcohol problem but also had a number of clothing clubs pursuing her . ’ |
| 7 | Social work came naturally to an intelligent unmarried Edwardian middle-class young woman , especially when her mother visited the local workhouse once a week for half a century and when her elder sister Olive was the warden of the Lady Margaret Hall settlement in Lambeth . |
| 8 | However , she needs to ask evil spirits for strength , but this power can not be maintained and when her true emotions permeate her denial of her own conscience they completely overwhelm her and she is punished with madness . |
| 9 | And when your surviving spouse has finally run his or her course and the life interest comes to an end then the remaining half will go to the children as well . |
| 10 | Some 36 years later I was invited to become Patron of Vliegclub Grimbergen , which honour I took very seriously and when my Belgian friends told me of the threatened closure of this , one of the busiest of Belgium 's general aviation airfields , I could see no obvious reason for closure , other than what only seemed to me to be political bias . |
| 11 | Yeah cos I I fucked her and when my big dick went inside it stretched it , it stretched it . |
| 12 | And when my knightly stomach is suffic 'd , |
| 13 | Now he can see a little , and when our first child was born and put into his arms , he was able to see that the boy had inherited his fine large black eyes . |
| 14 | At a time when the largest nuclear power in the world is in the process of disintegration into separate republics , when that massive nuclear arsenal is under some central control of the remaining central authorities , and when our keen concern is to ensure that that security is real , it seems absolutely unthinkable that we should not have our own protection and the ultimate assurance of an independent deterrent . |
| 15 | When this country is already committed to the highly expensive Trident ( which , from changes in global politics , has become a complete white elephant ) ; when the need for the EFA is also , to say the least , questionable , as recognised by all the partners in it and particularly Germany ; and when our own government accepts that public spending cuts are essential ; then surely the EFA should be the prime target for those cuts . |
| 16 | So we took out a Share Protection policy — and when our senior partner did die , we were both secure . |
| 17 | But in France and England , by the early twelfth century , it was generally expected that the vassal would pay an ‘ aid ’ when the lord was captured in war and had to be ransomed , when his eldest son was knighted , and when his eldest daughter was married . |
| 18 | Denis Cannan 's Dear Daddy ( 1976 ) , again , another successful stage comedy , tells of a virtuous middle-aged family man whose life is triumphantly self-organised down to its last petty details — exactly one-third of a bottle of wine at dinner every evening — until the comfortable domestic order he has created in his second marriage turns into an object of irrational despair to those around him ; and when his first wife , ruined by alcohol , abruptly re-enters his world , he is forced to accept a share of deferred responsibility for the wreckage of her life . |
| 19 | She had n't expected his kiss at all , and when his warm lips closed over her tight , trembling mouth she gasped , stiffened , felt her defences crashing , and found a tremulous yet passionate response all in a matter of seconds . |
| 20 | She felt the tight leather skirt being wriggled upwards to bare her scorching behind , and when his cool fingers touched her hot flesh she realised just how hot she was for him . |
| 21 | She glanced round as his footsteps grew louder , and when his tall figure loomed up out of the gloom she frowned , because she had discovered she was pleased to see him . |
| 22 | ‘ He 's admitted passing himself off as the Prince 's chef , and when his dastardly plan to assassinate His Royal Highness by poison did n't work , he kidnapped him . |
| 23 | Once , that was after Maman had gone , and when his own mother was distant , she had compelled him to eat a whole snail , slashing his legs with a nettle till he obeyed , and the stinging of the nettle really enlivened his dancing . |
| 24 | Music and horse racing are Quinn 's great passions outside football and when his playing days are over he would like to make a new career on the turf . |
| 25 | But when their own country ( the country of Lord Nuffield and Montague Norman ) was in danger , their attitude was very different . |
| 26 | But when its current owners moved in in 1970 the kitchen was still very much the same . |
| 27 | I do not want to be harsh , but when I first set eyes on him I knew the type at once : the big , gangling provincial , so eager and relieved to find himself at last in artistic circles . |
| 28 | it does n't , but when he first sort of put it up , I thought oh crumbs look at that |
| 29 | But when his second wife Wendy became ill , incurring extra expenses , that was cut to a nominal five pence a year . |
| 30 | Lloyd had persuaded Coleridge to take him as a pupil at £80 a year ; but when his wealthy father , a member of the banking family , insisted that the arrangement could last only for a year , Coleridge 's expectation of a regular income suddenly vanished , and Lloyd eventually settled with him as an occasional lodger , not a pupil . |