Example sentences of "when [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I fourteen months ago . |
| 2 | Some 36 years later I was invited to become Patron of Vliegclub Grimbergen , which honour I took very seriously and when my Belgian friends told me of the threatened closure of this , one of the busiest of Belgium 's general aviation airfields , I could see no obvious reason for closure , other than what only seemed to me to be political bias . |
| 3 | When my two children are very naughty I also smack them , and I use a slipper because it 's the softest thing that comes to hand . |
| 4 | I first started to think about painting about ten years ago when my two children married and left home and I thought I 'd ‘ do ’ something at the local adult education centre . |
| 5 | He said I pays my poll tax he says and I am paying out of my savings he said now what the heck will I do when my bloody savings is gone . |
| 6 | When my feeble protests were ignored back there it hit me for the first time that I was n't a civilian any more . |
| 7 | Is not it extraordinary that Opposition Members are sanctimoniously concerned about leaks when their Front-Bench spokesmen live off leaks from Departments ? |
| 8 | But investment tax credits , combined with tax hikes , help only capital intensive companies , and do nothing much for profitable , labour intensive ones — the ones that need help most ( people are a luxury when their future benefits can push GM into declaring the largest corporate loss in history . ) |
| 9 | Both were England captains when their private lives were thrown into turmoil . |
| 10 | NOTE Many people can still hear , even when their other senses appear to be lost . |
| 11 | His brood are five love bird chicks He took them on when their real parents died of exhaustion . |
| 12 | Leave enough space between you and the vehicle in front so that you can pull up safely if it slows down or stops suddenly , the safe rule is never to get closer than the overall stopping distance shown below , but on the open road in good conditions leave a gap of one metre for each mile an hour of your speed or a two second time gap may be enough , they will also leave space for an overtaking vehicle pulling or wet or icy or the gap should be at least double that , drop back if you know that taking vehicle closing gap in front of you make way for ambulance , fire engines , police or van emergency vehicles when their blue lamps are flashing or their bells , two tone cones or sirens or . |
| 13 | The incomes of many disabled and elderly people are demonstrably inadequate , particularly when their extra needs are taken into account ( Martin and White , 1988 ; Walker , 1990 ; see also Alan Walker 's and Dulcie Groves ' chapters in this volume ) . |
| 14 | The women either screamed abuse down the line or remained chillingly silent when their former partners answered . |
| 15 | Even when their specific characteristics are recognized , they are given different interpretations and names . |
| 16 | Both National Westminster and Barclays said earlier this year that there would be significant manpower reductions when their annual results were published . |
| 17 | According to Vasily Kazakov , who led the study , the youngest children affected were contaminated in 1986 even before they were born , when their thyroid glands were already sufficiently developed to absorb radioactive iodine . |
| 18 | They did not ever smile — but you could tell that when their empty eyes opened they were alive . |
| 19 | Whisky , because of its strength , is ‘ nosed ’ rather than tasted and it 's Frank 's job to sniff his way through barrels when their ten years are up . |
| 20 | Accordingly , first up were East Village , Heavenly 's wild card from early on , when their timeless swoonings and groomings were seen as making some case for the plurality of the dance scene from which Heavenly first hatched . |
| 21 | Winning schools will collect a £200 cash prize when their editorial teams visit The Northern Echo 's head office in Darlington to learn how to edit their stories which will appear on the education page . |
| 22 | When their big friends get stuck into close combat the Snotlings throw themselves on the enemy , screaming and yelling crazily , waving their wooden clubs and biting the foes with their sharp teeth . |
| 23 | We concluded that women who are successful in political careers tend to come from middle- and upper-class backgrounds and from professional occupations ; they have either been able to rely on the resources and support of their families or to have minimised the handicaps deriving from women 's status within the family by remaining unmarried or childless or by entering public life later on when their familial obligations have , to a larger degree , been completed . |
| 24 | Attract birds to the garden by feeding them when their natural sources of food are scarce ; grow plants favoured by insect predators ( like limnanthes , cornflowers , eschscholzia , asters , chrysanthemums , robinia , philadelphus and spiraea ) , and respect the habitats of retiring predators such as beetles , frogs and bats . |
| 25 | Success has been own when we have given our people their head : when their natural skills , talents , energy , thrift and inventiveness have been released , not suppressed . |
| 26 | Our institutions were set up by middle-class people and the staff , even when their own origins are working-class , reflect those values . |
| 27 | Soon the Nez Perce were participating in Plains-style warfare , raiding for horses , and for scalps when their own herds were stolen . |
| 28 | For such times are not even necessarily the obvious ones , ‘ the visible sequences of events recorded by the chronicler ’ , they may be invisible , ‘ a complex ‘ intersection ’ of … different times , rhythms , turnovers , etc. ’ , only visible when their particular concepts are constructed and produced ‘ out of the differential nature and differential articulation of their objects in the structure of the whole ’ ( 101–03 ) . |
| 29 | Normally , financial troubles and scandals around money visit players late in their lives , when their playing days are over and they are rehabilitating themselves back into the real world . |
| 30 | Collective civic pride is celebrated there , and in other European countries like Holland and West Germany , when their national teams regularly play in the modern publicly-funded stadia of different regions and cities . |