Example sentences of "[adv prt] when [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was as surprised as he was at what time had revealed but I did not join in when his boyish enthusiasm took hold . |
| 2 | The best compromise is to disguise surface-run cables with paint , and chase them in when you next redecorate . |
| 3 | So do n't be put off when your first attempt does n't work . |
| 4 | Clive Greenacre was not only put out when his agoraphobic wife started to express her anger about his callous behaviour , but also amazed by the sexual demands she then started to make on him . |
| 5 | I was just getting out when his left hand closed like a clamp on my arm . |
| 6 | On the other hand his advantageous position at the rear of the knightly column which Chrysophlax decimates came about when his grey mare went lame , ‘ As luck ( or the grey mare herself ) would have it ’ . |
| 7 | His brood are five love bird chicks He took them on when their real parents died of exhaustion . |
| 8 | We concluded that women who are successful in political careers tend to come from middle- and upper-class backgrounds and from professional occupations ; they have either been able to rely on the resources and support of their families or to have minimised the handicaps deriving from women 's status within the family by remaining unmarried or childless or by entering public life later on when their familial obligations have , to a larger degree , been completed . |
| 9 | She had to be a prop for him to lean on when his own despair grew too great . |