Example sentences of "for [adv] when [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every castle mustered its defences and stood by to repel the normal sharp and brief attack ; for only when they were insolently sure of their supremacy did the Welsh assay a siege . |
| 2 | Nor can we fundamentally question the rules of logic , for only when we assume them can we ask a question at all . |
| 3 | For ever and for ever when I move . ’ |
| 4 | For though when I say Gold is a metal , I say by implication that if there be any other metals it must resemble them , yet if there were no other metals I might still assert the proposition with the same meaning as at present , namely , that gold has the various properties implied in the word metal … |
| 5 | But this does not explain the state 's overall function , ; for even when it is controlled by officials drawn from other classes , it continues to serve the political interest of the hegemonic fraction . |