Example sentences of "when [noun prp] [verb] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , it was no more than Scotland deserved for perseverance , and a fitting punishment for the obstinate Maltese when Nevin squeezed in a third goal in the 85th minute to ensure Scotland 's opening victory of this World Cup campaign . |
| 2 | The only powers that control fate are the Gods , and so when Tamburlaine mentions in a conversation which he has with Theridamas that he controls his own fate , this implies that he believes he is a God : ‘ I hold the fates bound fast in iron chains , and with mine hand turn fortune 's wheel about ’ . |
| 3 | So , for example , when Barth came in a later volume of the Church Dogmatics to discuss the image of God in man , he did so in a fashion which led Brunner to assert that Barth had now changed his ground , and adopted Brunner 's own stance as developed in Nature and Grace . |
| 4 | When Wordsworth confessed in a letter of 1794 that " I am of that odious class of men called democrats " , what he was indicating was not so much that he was a supporter of a wider parliamentary franchise as that he was on the side of the people and that he was a social and political egalitarian , though not necessarily also an economic one : " … my heart was all/Given to the people , and my love was theirs " , recalled the poet in The Prelude ( 1805 , Book IX , II . |
| 5 | Caspar was peering along the darkened west wall , when Fenella said in a whisper , ‘ Caspar ! |
| 6 | When Josie dies in a car crash Roth feels relief . |
| 7 | Up front United faded … they never looked like finding a second goal and there was no surprise when Albion ran in a third … |
| 8 | Shivering , she brushed a few drops of rain from her face , glad when Rune returned in a few minutes in the promised taxi . |
| 9 | Grobbelaar flapped at McGee 's cross and when Miller drove in a low shot Sanchez turned the ball into the net . |
| 10 | ‘ It would still be nothing special , but when Linford retires in a couple of years there is going to be a big opening in the 100 . |
| 11 | ‘ It would still be nothing special but when Linford retires in a couple of years there is going to be a big opening in the 100 . |
| 12 | I was poking in the drawer of a table when Connors said in a hushed voice : |
| 13 | As PostScript files can take an eternity to process — especially when PostScript resides in a cartridge — I 'd increase it from 45 seconds to maybe 450 or more . |
| 14 | But her annoyance returned when Jenny came in a little while later and told her that she had asked Matthew to dinner . |
| 15 | When EF lies in a Landau level ( Figure 4 ) , scattering is possible and the current flow comprises electrons with paths that are constantly modified at each collision . |
| 16 | Changing Places , published in 1975 , is set in 1969 ; when Zapp reappears in a later novel , Small World , set ten years later , he has changed his attitudes , in accordance with major shifts in the Zeitgeist . |
| 17 | When Macbeth returns in a trance , still grasping the bloody daggers , Lady Macbeth illustrates her strength by returning them to Duncan 's chamber . |