Example sentences of "of a [noun sg] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , he celebrates the great house at Allington , which is early Stuart and built next to the road , with the comment : ‘ To be near the village , so as in some way to afford comfort , protection , and patronage , and perhaps also with a view to the pleasantness of neighbourhood for its own inmates , seemed to be the object of a gentleman when building his house in the old days . ’ |
| 2 | What 's the point of a heart when it 's lost its dreams ? |
| 3 | He 'd brought home some hairs from the cross on the back of a donkey when she was cutting her teeth , and Ma had made a little black silk bag to put them in so they could hang round her neck to keep the funny turns away . |
| 4 | There 's a close-up of a guitar when someone 's playing the piano , and a close-up of the back of someone 's head when someone else is f—ing flying over the other side of the stage . |
| 5 | ‘ I had one hell of a hassle when I first came out . |
| 6 | ‘ Everything 's going fine , ’ the girl said , not quite so much of a girl when Diane looked at her close-to . |
| 7 | The fee was 25,000 — and Collins ignored the advice of a friend when he signed . |
| 8 | So it came out of a budget when we were all ratepayers , it did n't come out of poll tax payers ' budgets okay ? |
| 9 | Manager Goodman quickly spotted that Harry 's lack of inches ( he only stood 5ft 6in ) were something of a handicap when playing down the middle in Second Division football and successfully transferred him to the outside-right spot . |
| 10 | The Primo Levi who is read by Fernanda Eberstadt is a man who is unable to write about Jews — though he does in fact write about them with great sympathy , believers and unbelievers alike — and who has no feeling for people whose background and abilities are different from his own , though the joy of Levi 's work , for other readers , is very often that he has such feelings , that he knows himself to be , while also knowing himself not to be , an ordinary man , a worker , a man who worked as an industrial chemist and who was no less of a worker when he wrote books . |
| 11 | It was n't , it was n't much of a subject when I was young , is it , is it a necessary part of the school curriculum ? |
| 12 | The implications of the Government staying out of a union when they had decided , on the basis of convergence , to form one , are serious and potentially disastrous . |
| 13 | He dressed from the Pinner charity shops , and was widely regarded as a gentleman , who wittered on rather too much about himself and could be a bit of a nuisance when he was drunk . |
| 14 | I tried to I probably made myself a bit of a nuisance when I came in last time but , |
| 15 | And there 's certainly no end of a palaver when a patient ‘ takes matters into his own hands ’ , with the electrified fence , for example . |
| 16 | The standard molar enthalpy of combustion of a substance is the enthalpy change per mole of a substance when the substance in its standard state is completely burnt in oxygen at 298 K and a pressure of one atmosphere . |
| 17 | Swindon 's 75th minute effort came at the end of a spell when they were getting on top of a hard-working Rovers side in a lack-lustre derby . |
| 18 | If we rely upon the sound of a word when attempting to spell , then errors will range from the gross " autograph " outergraff " to the more subtle " honest " " onist " . |
| 19 | THOSE who are struck all of a heap when faced with a bill from British Telecom for some trifling work carried out in their homes may like to know that there is a Telecom instruction sheet about charges . |
| 20 | But it was a bit of a coincidence when she walked out that day and er she did n't come for a week ! |
| 21 | The castaways were lying together in the bilges of a cockboat when Sam Gristy and Harry Pascoe came alongside . |
| 22 | The body of a cat when hunting takes on a quite different demeanour to that of the same pussy when out for an idle stroll or with some other intention in mind . |
| 23 | It is important to recognise that this should not be an absolute proscription : some fine writers of English use and at the beginning of a sentence when it suits their purposes , e.g. : |
| 24 | Just the flicker of a smile when he thought that nobody was looking ( but Jed had practised the deft glance in the mirror and he did n't miss much ) . |
| 25 | ‘ You feel good being nominated for an Oscar , then you get turned into some kind of a loser when you do n't win . |
| 26 | On a more mundane level , I have felt delight in contemplating some phenomenon of nature which I have seen and felt with the emotions of a child when I have escaped from the prison house of our habitual thoughts . |
| 27 | Instead , they should refer to SCOTVEC 's criteria for approval of a centre when setting up their systems and should discuss the systems that they intend to implement with their systems verifier . |
| 28 | Michelle added : ‘ She looked a bit of a sight when I got to the station but she 's always trying on my clothes . |
| 29 | ‘ I fell out of a tree when I was four years old . |
| 30 | It was like holding the twig of a tree when there 's no wind blowing . |