Example sentences of "and when a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when a female reporter asked about his remarks , he snapped : ‘ Which lesbian group are you from ? ’ |
| 2 | ( 1981 ) find that women 's explanations of their success are more modest when they know they will be made public , and when a liked other has failed . |
| 3 | Before 1869 , there was no Institution in England and Wales ( nor for that matter , in Scotland ) where deaf children of Roman Catholics could be educated in their own faith , and when a Belgian priest , Monsignore de Haerne , a deputy in the Belgian Senate , learnt of this , he came to Britain for the purpose of establishing one . |
| 4 | Each processor on the network runs its own copy of the 13Kb microkernel and when a new thread is started , the kernel on that chip compares its loading with its immediate neighbours . |
| 5 | Each processor on the network runs its own copy of the 13Kb microkernel and when a new thread is started , the kernel on that chip compares its loading with its immediate neighbours . |
| 6 | And when a new note does enter in , it sounds with despair . |
| 7 | There are occasions when after a long and difficult dig , and when a long time has elapsed before the recovery of the ferret and rabbit , you may discover that your ferret has scraped at the hindquarters of the rabbit for so long that it has broken the skin , drawn blood and started to eat the rabbit before it died . |
| 8 | The lesson was not heeded , and when a second call came Charlemagne decided not only to march into Lombardy , but to stay there . |
| 9 | The plaintiff drank the ginger beer , and when a second glass was poured for her by her friend a decomposing snail which had been in the bottle floated out . |
| 10 | She knocked down walls and when a young woman asked her to stop , she reached back and slugged her . ’ |
| 11 | After his death , his wife told of an occasion , when Higgins was at the height of his medical practice , and when a young woman was ‘ seized with such a violent haemorrhage that the only expedient was transfusion ’ . |
| 12 | You will be asked to confirm the details of the funds available to you if and when a firm offer of a place is made . |
| 13 | He left them in his wake and when a little distance separated them from him , he heard one call out to him . |
| 14 | He was distracted by the stragglers being rounded up , and when a little girl broke away to chase a pigeon , her small hands outstretched and her face uplifted with delighted laughter , he looked ready to sweep the child up in his arms . |
| 15 | And when a half-page profile of Jean-Claude appeared in Le Nouvel Observateur I really could not make up my mind whether he was more genuinely displeased than pleased . |
| 16 | The intention was to try to use tactical nuclear weapons politically rather than militarily — that is , as signals to the USSR if and when a conventional collision in Europe was reaching an unacceptably dangerous level . |
| 17 | Later , in March and April , de Gaulle approved ordinances specifying how liberated areas were to be governed and how and when a National Assembly would be convened . |
| 18 | I detest Picasso 's farsightedness when he declared : ‘ On my death , it will be like a shipwreck , and when a large ship is wrecked a lot of people go down with it ’ . |
| 19 | He himself would probably have claimed that his greatest achievement was to be able to predict accurately where and when a particular cuckoo would lay its eggs . |
| 20 | Serum triglyceride levels are more affected by the ingestion of food , but one quickly learns to gauge what amounts to satisfactory random cholesterol and triglyceride results and when a fasting specimen is required . |