Example sentences of "when someone [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | When someone asks a government for bloodwealth , they not only threaten bloodshed if it is not forthcoming , but do so in an idiom which denies the government 's claim to superiority , puts it on an equal footing , treats it as just another tribe . |
| 2 | Individual deterrence occurs when someone commits a crime , is punished for it , and finds the punishment so unpleasant or frightening that the offence is never repeated for fear of more of the same or worse . |
| 3 | ‘ When someone loses a packet , they just creep silently away . ’ |
| 4 | Mother-of-three Dawn Ryan , of Wye Street , said : ‘ My daughter was knocked out when someone dropped a door on her head . |
| 5 | When someone eats a snack while mentally absorbed in other things — perhaps a mother grabbing her own meal in between attempts to coax food down a baby , or a viewer eating a TV snack while totally involved in the latest beastly plots of ‘ J.R . ’ |
| 6 | When someone gets a virus and becomes ill , the helper cells kill off the virus and usually they get better . |
| 7 | It may be indelicate of me , but I think that women will only be truly free when someone invents a … mechanism … which women can control . |
| 8 | It was spoiled when someone threw a glass on to the stage , stopping the band from playing an encore . |
| 9 | The Sharrock family know they 've had a lucky escape ; any one or all of them could have been injured , or even killed , when someone threw a brick at their car from an overhead footbridge . |
| 10 | And that is about what happens when someone leaves a job of their own accord . |
| 11 | So what happens when someone leaves a job of their own accord , what happens to their unemployment benefit . |
| 12 | On the other hand , there may be moments of real illumination and discovery , when someone makes a comment that springs from a quite different frame of reference from one 's own . |
| 13 | ‘ They will write slurry into the nitrogen bill only when someone discovers a really practical way of showing what 's in it . ’ |
| 14 | A lazy git , he awoke from hundreds of years of slumber when someone built a castle on his resting place ( I wonder if that 'd work with Corky ? ) . |
| 15 | The pike is perhaps in a similar difficulty as a human who is trying to hit a moving tennis ball when someone throws a second ball across his visual field ; it makes it more difficult to hit the ball . |
| 16 | It is often noticed that when someone has a close relative die , it seems to be not unusual that the family pet dies shortly afterwards . |
| 17 | In our situation we had an incident — trivial by comparison with Peter 's — which illustrates well what may happen when someone has a teachable spirit . |