Example sentences of "of a [noun sg] [adv] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Saturday morning I am woken up by my children , Jack , three , and Molly , two , they are quite energetic so that stops any chance of a lie in when they start jumping up and down on my bed . |
| 2 | In France , the one country that had developed a strong tradition of vernacular opera with its own different aesthetic , it needed only a visit of an Italian company playing a repertoire of opere buffe to spark off one of the most celebrated of musical civil wars , the querelle des bouffons , a war which was renewed a quarter of a century later when the pro-Italian faction set up Piccinni in rivalry with the now gallicized Gluck . |
| 3 | That was three-quarters of a century ago when most of those who fought here were not much more than boys . |
| 4 | That supply will be determined by , not current market prices but prices of a year ago when you made the planting decisions right . |
| 5 | I 'm a bit of a bore really when it comes to food . |
| 6 | Another Saturday came round with no prospect of a night off when it began to rain in the afternoon . |
| 7 | The second is that the British colonial rulers did not genuinely believe in independent , publicly owned public service broadcasting because when in government they made sure that they had full control and tolerated the idea of a corporation only when their rule was coming to an end . |
| 8 | The unique promise of television is of an availability which is not dependent on the presence of the image as is cinema 's , but derives from its ‘ endless flow ’ , available at the touch of a button even when the set itself is off . |
| 9 | ‘ I was thinking along the lines of a family home when I bought this , ’ he said abruptly . |