Example sentences of "[noun] when [pers pn] [verb] [pron] in " in BNC.

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1 Ironically , it was the motor car which saved Huntercombe — not just as a means of travel but because the wealth of car maker William Morris , later Viscount Nuffield , secured its future when he bought it in 1925 .
2 The words are almost worth committing to memory to serve as a warning light when you find yourself in danger of making use of a similar situation .
3 We may get more from Dr. Bonnard when we question him in depth .
4 In 1968 the Government introduced the Newspaper Ordnance ( Amendment ) Bill , which empowered the president to order a newspaper to cease publication when he considered it in the public interest to do so .
5 Mind you , some do a double-take when they see me in the flesh .
6 The hon. Gentleman can raise those matters when I call him in the debate , as I hope to do .
7 So , if you receive the also-enclosed £30 in Bank-of-England notes safely , perhaps you could share the draft money with Robert when you see him in Prague .
8 We listen and pay attention when it says something in such a way as to attract our attention .
9 Catchy slogans and jingles Words and phrases that stick in your mind may well prompt you to buy a product when you see it in the supermarket .
10 And they were still chatting comfortably with each other when she rejoined them in the living-room , feeling very much like a spare part .
11 He also injured Thomas 's common-law wife when he hit her in the legs with the stick , Teesside magistrates heard .
12 How the spelling of the word changes when we use it in a sentence .
13 To Timothy his dear dad great mercy and peace to you from God the father and Christ Jesus our Lord I give thanks to the God of my forefathers who I worship with a clear conscience when I mention you in my prayers as I do constantly night and day .
14 Surere was already looking sleeker , Huy thought , as he tried to banish the servile feelings which still rose to the surface when he found himself in the company of his former superior .
15 The cooking , which could n't be done before the day of the party , looked like an insurmountable mountain to Paige when she presented herself in the kitchen to help .
16 But it explained the 100-franc note I 'd seen at Ma Scamp 's and , come to think of it , the wad of francs I 'd spotted in Bill Stubbly 's wallet when I met him in the bank .
17 I was a student in London but I was at home on this occasion when I met someone in the park .
18 He gave me a hint when I interviewed him in Helsinki not long before he also was murdered . ’
19 I trekked the length and breadth of Charing Cross Road and the surrounding area when I bought mine in ‘ 68 , and I still remember it was in a different league to everything else , although it crept into the £50 plus bracket , rather than the £40 I had saved .
20 What words of greeting did the angel give to Mary when he visited her in Nazareth ?
21 It floats in your bath when you put it in the plug .
22 Mainly , I think , because he finally established the explanatory power of functionalism ; he showed more clearly than any of his predecessors how much more profoundly we understand man 's social life when we see it in all its functional complexity .
23 Anthony Honoré , retiring Oxford Regius Professor of Civil Law , had just been canvassed by the appointments secretary when I visited him in his panelled rooms at All Souls .
24 She 's a big woman who 's always in a green housecoat when I see her in the evenings after the pub when , as often happens , her son and I end up at her house .
25 I said he 's my father and then he falls out the fucking bed when they put him in it because they admit negligence , they forgot to put the cot side up , dad has got lack of oxygen to his bra brain , he thought it was the Battle of Hastings going on but they said there was nobody there , well surely they must have known Joy he fell out the bloody bed because he 's laying like this and he 's falling and he 's falling and bang come out , he split all his bloody head open , do you know the blood was there from the night he fell out , he fell out at half past ten at night and they never informed us , which is against the law and the blood still sat there at quarter to four the following day , all over the floor , he 's got a bloody stitch in his head which they done to him while he were in the bed , and ripped three tubes out of his arm , split all his bloody arm open
26 Mike Widmer , group managing director for Caldaire , said yesterday that a deputation from the firm would ask Mr Freeman to waive the clause when they meet him in London on Thursday .
27 But it is pure silk encrusted with sequins and it did give Yul Brynner a regal air when he wore it in The King And I in 1956 .
28 She could hardly bear to think she would never see this pretty place again , nor speak with the cheerful villagers , drink beer in María 's café and get hugs from the children when she saw them in Miguel 's clinic .
29 Hudson , who had played the most fluently for his 30 from 54 balls , was caught behind trying to cut Harper , who was also rewarded with the wicket of Rushmere when he beat him in the flight .
30 If all these gorgeous chaps are going to rally to the standard when we stick it in the salt pot , then I , for one , am going to be as fragrant and petal-soft as a lady in a soap commercial .
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