Example sentences of "[vb base] when [pron] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | As someone once said : he 's the sort of player you cheer when he scores a try against your side . |
2 | As I say when you become a councillor you do not do it for money , I mean I think probably to be a better reason to become a councillor these days . |
3 | It 's not what you expect when you buy a bunch of bananas . |
4 | When the equivalence principle is applied to photons they are predicted to undergo a gravitational red shift when they leave a star , whilst a deflection is expected for light passing near to a massive body . |
5 | Andrew and Wendy will miss Pete in Hong Kong , but so intelligent and sensitive a canine is he , they can expect the warmest Yorkshire welcome when they pay a return visit . |
6 | Cause when you 've a bun in the oven , |
7 | What you 've got to take into account is that , an all , there 's an awful lot of things that you get when your unemployed that stop when you find a job . |
8 | He told me just to run around and do some starts , which is the way I guess most athletes begin when they join a club . |
9 | I always cringe when I see a lorry like that coming on the road when you ca n't see past it |
10 | And what 'll happen when you pass when you pass a current through hydrochloric acid ? |
11 | They ask me , Is that your writing ? and it is of course it is those are Despot control codes from when the computer 's mouse was misbehaving and that 's the way I always spell when I do a shopping list . |
12 | I snore when I get a cold . |
13 | Other birds , however , can be said with accuracy to weave , for they create the fabric of their nests using exactly the same principles as human weavers employ when they interlace a weft thread between parallel warp threads to create cloth . |
14 | Any insider who sets out to pursue a reflexive anthropology of policing eventually has to face difficulties which arise when he reaches an objective and analytic understanding of his society and its own specific versions of reality . |
15 | ‘ I was once on the receiving end of one I think when I bought a suit in Hong Kong . |
16 | ‘ Do you know what I think when I see a lad like you ? ’ |
17 | In your text book you 've got quite a lot of information in there about reinforcing , what we 're going to do in the practical session and it 's always a help I think when you have a lot of the , thrown at you to know that you can just put it up and there it is if you get a bit confusing or ca n't remember what 's what , so on page one six nine it starts telling you all about nursing and bandages and general hygiene which we 've already talked quite a lot about but it 's very useful for you to know , you can go there and look , and if you just go through the pages from there on one seventy , one seven one , one seven two , one seven three and then on one seven four it 's got the general rules for applying bandages apply bandages when the casualty is sitting or lying down , you always sit your casualty down and you work from the front of , I say why do you work from the front of the thing ? |
18 | So once you get towards , take a clock in , make sure you pace yourself , and say at the end of that just put in a sort of sentence to make it look as if it 's been finished off Erm , what I usually do when I do an exam is I spend the first five minutes actually looking at the questions because initially you look for the ones that you 've revised and you see but there may be others there , there 're you can do in a slightly different way than the way that they first appear and that might help you quite a bit , although there are no trick questions in this . |
19 | Write when you have a chance and I will too , if you pass through Toronto look us up . |
20 | We should be able to state which fuse we require when we buy a plug in the interest of safety and economics . |
21 | I mean when they find a bit here there 's all hell let loose is n't there ? |
22 | Well what they mean when they say a half of a quarter is that we had a a quarter and we 've shared it out between the two of it so we 've got half to that each . |
23 | I think also on the inherent fault situation , I mean when somebody buys a vehicle the vehicle has to be of a standard obviously and if there are problems there then obviously people appreciate the fact that they can go back and this is really the point of dealing with a reputable dealer from the word go . |
24 | Oh , absolutely , I mean when you say a trader we were talking about a repair shop here if we 're talking about servicing work and so on . |
25 | Bennett was also worried about the lack of allowance made for the impact that HMIs have when they visit a school ( the term for this is ‘ reactivity ’ , which will be discussed in Part Three ) . |
26 | It is possible that the subjective sensation experienced by a female bat when she perceives a male really is , " say , bright red : the same sensation as I experience when I see a flamingo . |