Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is rather like something that I used to do as a young groundsman coming up through the ranks , when I applied for vacant jobs all over the place , the bigger and more prestigious the place the better , and more often than not without the slightest intention of taking the job if it had been offered ! |
| 2 | My searches even led me to the absurdity of being directed to the deep freeze in one newsagent when I asked for Spare Rib . |
| 3 | I knew you 'd thought of something , and when you asked for extra milk it was n't hard to guess what it was . ’ |
| 4 | When you ask for some information from hard disk , the coaching controller grabs more information than you need from the same area of the disk . |
| 5 | FREE when you send for 112 ROCK'N'ROLL GREATS … |
| 6 | She was a little overweight , her hands a touch too pudgy when she reached for various books and took them from the shelves . |
| 7 | However , when we control for such views , the relationship between unemployment experience and preparedness to break the law does not disappear ; in fact , it is almost as strong as it was in the bivariate table : +0.175 among the unalienated and +0.144 among the alienated , or +0.159 on average . |
| 8 | This conclusion may not remain universally true when we allow for heterogeneous capital ; none the less , the possibility remains that shifting may take place and we need to check when considering policy proposals the likelihood of this actually happening . |
| 9 | or to Jesus and to confuse their language that they may not listen to one another 's language and accordingly Jehovah scattered them from there over all the surface of the earth so , and that was God 's purpose for them to be er spread out all over the earth cos God knew that city life would only break down and all these centuries have passed since then and there 's urgent proof throughout the year , the cities , the cities do n't work so God had his own way , give it , the one , his way is the only one that works and thus when we pray for this king of |
| 10 | And in , when we look for distinguishing marks on people |
| 11 | This frees journalists from some restraints when they write for foreign publications but has awkward consequences for those who distribute foreign papers in this country . |
| 12 | More and more they were now given the title of " extraordinary " , even when they remained for long periods at the courts to which they were sent : increasingly the term , applied to either an ambassador or an envoy , became a mere title of honour . |
| 13 | No doubt she will be hoping that The Corn is Green will draw more of her friends to the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre , when it opens for two weeks on Monday , April 27th . |
| 14 | Almost 20 people aged 16–25 attended the Young Persons ' Health Clinic at Park Place Health Centre when it opened for two hours on February 7 . |
| 15 | I was ashamed that I 'd written a reference for him when he applied for that job . |
| 16 | When he applied for judicial review he did not know whether his tariff exceeded 20 years , but on 10 April 1990 his solicitors were informed by the Home Office that it did not . |
| 17 | In 1920 Birkenhead put forward both lines of argument when he argued for greater coalition cooperation in the press . |
| 18 | He was drilling the car through a bend at 90mph when he went for third gear — and hit first at 7,000 revs . |
| 19 | Christopher Horn , 45 , of Hurworth Moor , near Darlington , sparked a police search when he vanished for several days in August . |
| 20 | The Wisconsin state authorities feel that they have lost enough money on Steve Chen 's dreams — his failed Supercomputer Systems Inc received $75m in incentives from to establish its operations in Eau Claire , and they showed Chen the door when he asked for another $5m to get his fledgling SuperComputers International Inc off the ground in Eau Claire . |