Example sentences of "when [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He had entered into negotiations with the commissioners of His Majesty 's Victualling Office for the erection of an engine to drive a corn mill , and manufacture of the parts was well advanced , when for some reason they turned to John Smeaton [ q.v. ] for an opinion , and he recommended a pumping engine and water-wheel . |
| 2 | ‘ One day she had brought the dinners and started home , when for some reason she looked back . |
| 3 | But when in one class he had taken the register and pronounced their names correctly , there had been some laughter from non-Indian children ( who were a minority in the class ) but floods of embarrassed giggles from Asian children , who seemed to prefer their names to be mispronounced in school . |
| 4 | This can cause misunderstanding and conflict when in later life they talk to one another . |
| 5 | It has been suggested that suffering may be appropriate when in some way it contributes to learning and personal growth . |
| 6 | But there was also a sense in which he despised fame even as he obtained it , and when in this year he described Mark Twain as a man who wanted success or reputation and yet at the same time " resented their violation of his integrity " , there can be little doubt that once again he was expressing his own feelings through the agency of another 's . |
| 7 | When within binocular range it may be seen on the side of Theta opposite to the 6.5-magnitude star . |
| 8 | One old lady recalls her days as a midwife many years ago when on one occasion she had to deliver a baby in an old farm cottage near the works . |
| 9 | He has since , of course , achieved a political status by which presumably I ought now to judge him , but as a junior voice in a senior assembly I could not resist the conclusion that he was a little too forthcoming , particularly when on one occasion he outraged me by a suggestion that if a common waiting-list was established , consolidating both private and NHS priorities , the NHS patients should have pride of place before private patients came into the reckoning . |
| 10 | The 24-year-old , runner-up in the recent Welsh Amateur Championship , scored his best win to date by two strokes from MacPherson , when at one stage it looked as if he would miss the cut . |
| 11 | ‘ Your steak 's all right ? ’ he enquired courteously , when at one point he observed that she was n't making much headway with it . |
| 12 | The desert was an unforgiving place , but their training had equipped them to cope , when at any time they could have taken the easy way out and walked down to the coast road to surrender . |
| 13 | To worry that your brother might make an unfortunate marriage when at any moment he might be killed was something she found difficult to understand . |