Example sentences of "when [noun] [vb -s] [adv prt] the " in BNC.

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1 Women face impossible difficulties in trying to combine the roles of mother , paid worker and unpaid domestic worker , and when marriage breaks down the consequences are obvious in terms of the vulnerability of lone mothers and their children to poverty .
2 This happens when water leaches out the salt used to preserve the leather or when leather comes into contact with sea water or salt used to grit the roads .
3 But it still hurts when Gordon sits out the big Euro nights .
4 If the Foreign Secretary is still here — which I doubt — when Britain takes over the presidency of the European Community , will he insist that some race legislation is passed in the European Community to protect black and minority ethnic citizens when they move around Europe ?
5 The only breach in the silence comes when Anya raps out the occasional direction — turn here , take the first left off the roundabout , and so forth .
6 Although Ice Cube 's role as an agent provocateur is unequivocal , his future as a bankable revolutionary must be open to doubt , despite his assertion on the liner notes of ‘ Predator ’ : ‘ I will become an African-American when America gives up the oppression of my people . ’
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