Example sentences of "[conj] when [pron] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope that when we meet on the nineteenth Alan or Paul will immediately knock all that on the head . |
| 2 | All we have to do is print the design from the magnified screen , but in sections , and it is not purely by accident that when you click on the Magnify icon , the area shown in the design screen is exactly 45 squares wide , or one quarter of the needle bed width . |
| 3 | Therefore , it was not surprising that when I intervened on the hon. Member for Newham , North-East he was a little coy about referring to his party 's record on unemployment . |
| 4 | After a couple of days in his new home Skipper was much more relaxed ; he no longer jumped at every sound and soon learned that when I arrived on the yard in the morning , it meant food . |
| 5 | She allowed him to lead her back to the living-room , her defences momentarily lapsed so that when he paused on the threshold to slide an arm around her waist and draw her into his embrace she was too shocked to remonstrate . |
| 6 | They pop up and over it , and when they land on the other side and they slow down a bit . |
| 7 | If and when they work on the tacit assumption or make such a blatant assertion as that , that there is no longer any poverty , because it is not true and unless and until it is true neither they nor we have got any right to be content . |
| 8 | Right he sent only a very small army and when they arrived on the shores . |
| 9 | And when we prevailed on the prior to let us raise the stone , this is what we found . ’ |
| 10 | The men had been gone several weeks , and when we appeared on the beach , the bear was probably expecting us to produce food . |
| 11 | We 'd been drinking vin blanc and supping pork pies and and when we sat on the boat , sailor says , You 'll not there long , you know , we sat on the bow er on the from of the boat . |
| 12 | We led by two shots going into the last round , and when it blew on the last day , I did n't think anybody could beat Trevino . |
| 13 | The others went in the car and when I arrived on the bike a little later they 'd been down the 51 steps to the house and found it like the Marie Celeste , everything open , radio playing but no-one around . |
| 14 | And when you came on the scene , I started enjoying my winning even more . |
| 15 | When you are a small country as well as a special one , and when you live on the edge of things , it can be dangerous . |
| 16 | When Edward I , Langshanks , waged his wars against Wales and Scotland , his armies were paid for by loans from Luccan bankers and when he reneged on the loans , the bankers went bust and Florence became the international financier of the day . |
| 17 | Creed was inside the house for almost an hour and when he emerged on the steps it was n't Sir Charles who was with him , but Sir Charles 's wife . |
| 18 | It was red , and when she stood on the table and touched it , it looked like blood . |
| 19 | But when they moved on the school lost its reason for being . |
| 20 | We 've had a few scares from the lasers so far , but when we get on the scene there 's nothing to see . ’ |
| 21 | I hit the ball great on the range but when I get on the course it all goes wrong . |
| 22 | ‘ That 's just what I said to myself when I woke up this morning , but when I looked on the floor , there was the veil , torn in two halves ! ’ |
| 23 | But when I concentrated on the postage-stamp-sized photographs bearing his name that had started to appear , I could no longer be certain that he and The Fat Controller were one and the same . |
| 24 | As Charles limped along Praed Street , he began to regret dressing up for the encounter , but when he reflected on the exceptional violence of blackmailers in all detective fiction , he decided it was as well to conceal his identity . |
| 25 | But when he walked on the field you 'd think it was Goliath coming on there . ’ |
| 26 | But we are a few guys , not interested in politics , who will play golf with anybody as 50 per cent individuals and 50 per cent representatives of our country because when you stand on the 1st tee , they call … |
| 27 | It makes me cough a bit because when I came on the scene he was the one academically everything and she was the one who was academically rather disadvantaged but she , she was , you know , no not having the greatest of , of , of success but erm it was said that she would n't be able to be a student nurse because she was n't bright enough but you know she clocked up the O levels and A levels like guide badges and she went off on this pre-nursing course in South Notts you know and she was in and out of the Queens on a course and people and , you know , and she said I do n't know all the answers but I 've a rough idea about some of the questions , I want to be a nurse and off she went to , to , to Walsall and I 'm not saying she 's a brilliant student nurse but erm absolutely clear that she 's better than some of the others . |