Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] in [noun] when [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gary helped him with his chemistry and deserves much of the credit for the good grades William got in tests when he got back ( the teachers were amazed ! ) . |
| 2 | This intimate connection between the metaphysics of death and the politics of life is precisely what Nizan has in mind when he refers to revolutionary literature as " the modern form of tragedy " . |
| 3 | We have already seen something of what Hobbes has in mind when we considered his idea of the generation of a circle . |
| 4 | I know for a fact David confided in Keith when we split up and told him everything . |
| 5 | It 's easy enough to make a little girl believe in religion when she 's in a convent . |
| 6 | Ulbricht died in office when he was gone eighty , did n't he ? ’ |
| 7 | We encourage parents to stay in hospital when their children are sick . |
| 8 | Certainly , this is not the sort of behaviour that modern judges have in mind when they refer to young thugs as behaving ‘ like animals ’ . |
| 9 | Another point to bear in mind when you are taking a camcorder away with you on holiday is that you may wish to do check replays of your recordings on a colour set as you go along . |
| 10 | Erm the remaining seventy two percent are entirely separate from this and obviously that 's a a very important point to bear in mind when you consider the level of allocation that 's been made first of all , and secondly the likelihood that if that is successful , first of all if it 's approved , if it 's recommended by the panel and eventually taken on by the county , and secondly if happens , then it is likely that it will result in skewing of the workforce even more towards the manufacturing sector of the economy and would in our view be contrary to the aim of diversification of the economic base . |
| 11 | This is a particularly important point to bear in mind when it is realized that many technological developments operate at the edges of life , whether they be ventilators or incubators . |
| 12 | Here are some attractive places to bear in mind when you feel like a day 's outing . |
| 13 | It seems that this dynamic view is closer to what Brooke-Rose has in mind when she describes her use of metaphor in the novels as recontextualization through the fusion of discourses . |
| 14 | Before sleeping I wonder what Pascal had in mind when he wrote in the Pensées : ‘ Time heals griefs and quarrels , for we change and are no longer the same persons . |
| 15 | All this , but with examples drawn from chess instead of from whist and bridge , is what Wittgenstein has in mind when he says that the term ‘ language-game ’ is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity . |
| 16 | In his haste to get away he grated the gears and the wheels shrieked in protest when he failed to balance the-changeover between clutch and accelerator . |
| 17 | One persistent question that intrigued those working on this study during the past four years was , ‘ Why do small farmers continue in agriculture when they achieve such small financial rewards for considerable expenditure of effort ? ’ |
| 18 | South Africa 's Andre Joubert , running spiritedly from full-back , collected three smartly-taken tries before retiring at half-time , and stylish Jeremy Guscott , England 's Grand Slam centre , had friend and foe gawping in disbelief when he strode some 70 yards to the try-line . |
| 19 | Speaking of that , I wonder just what the hon. Gentleman had in mind when he tabled this question . |
| 20 | It was the second major blow in a week for Sampras , who failed to live up to his top seeding in Paris when he lost in the quarter-finals of the French Open . |
| 21 | It was the second major blow in a week for Sampras , who failed to live up to his top seeding in Paris when he lost in the quarter-finals of the French Open . |
| 22 | It is not clear what Croom-Johnson J. had in mind when he said that there was a requirement of ‘ hostile intent , ’ and the observation has been doubted and explained subsequently . |
| 23 | On the other hand , I have discoed the night away in Marina di Massa and had payment waived in Copenhagen when I was visibly kroner-less . |
| 24 | As you can see , there are a lot of features to keep in mind when you are choosing a camcorder . |
| 25 | Hundreds of trippers who had paid for a front-row seat in a grandstand overlooking the departing flotilla left in anger when they were told the scaffolding viewpoint was potentially unsafe and would not be used . |
| 26 | It may have been this group Professor Ashton had in mind when he drew attention to the way in which London banks played a role in making available the " savings of agriculturalists ' to provide " much of the investment in manufacture " . |
| 27 | He tried very hard not to cough like he 'd seen people cough in westerns when they tried whisky for the first time , and got away with just clearing his throat rather loudly ( he looked round at the curtains , afraid somebody might have heard ) . |
| 28 | Pound had known Phyllis Bottome between 1905 and 1907 , when they were fellow students at the University of Pennsylvania , and it 's not clear whether it is that early association , or a period later when she had caught up with him in London , that Phyllis Bottome had in mind when she wrote of how Pound tried to transform her as a writer from a talented amateur into a professional : |
| 29 | But his three-second , 89-metre flight ended in disaster when his £700 glider was wrecked as it crashed into the sea . |
| 30 | It 's never tobacco or alcohol , the most dangerous addictive drugs around , which people have in mind when they refer , whether in jocose or deadly-serious vein , to a ‘ drugs problem ’ : it 's illegal drugs they are on about . |