Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] a [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , when I tabled a question to that effect , the Under-Secretary of State , the hon. Member for Wells ( Mr. Heathcoat-Amory ) , answered by stating that , before the position could be changed , primary legislation would be required . |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps when I get a minute to meself we can have a picnic of our own , ’ he suggested . |
| 3 | A nagging doubt began to affect me when I observed a signpost to Cape Town . |
| 4 | ‘ Usually — on the rare occasions when I take a woman to bed . |
| 5 | It 's nicer still if the table changes in the word processor when you make an alteration to your original spreadsheet . |
| 6 | When you put a stop to all that , when the place is silent and empty , all that is left is a large , ramshackle shed — cold , filthy and depressing . |
| 7 | Yet I still do n't understand you — remember when you put a stop to my having dinner Chez Auguste ? ’ |
| 8 | That is precisely what happens when you become a subscriber to Microsoft Systems Journal . |
| 9 | ‘ Every time ’ — she bobbed her head at him ‘ especially when you have a room to yourself and a decent job ahead . |
| 10 | When you send a reporter to a festival , why do n't you send one who knows a little about it ? |
| 11 | But one of her proudest moments as an ambassador came when she gave a lecture to 2,000 fellow scientists in Kyoto — and there was only one woman in the audience . |
| 12 | The ones that gave of carbon dioxide when we put an acid to them . |
| 13 | When we ascribe a quality to an object we intend to assert that the object affects us in a manner similar to that in which we are affected by a known class of objects . |
| 14 | When they applied a voltage to the grid , the pyrole polymerised onto it . |
| 15 | The giving of often lavish presents to diplomats when they left a court to which they had been accredited , when a treaty was signed between two states or a special embassy of congratulation or condolence was sent , still a widespread practice in the first years of the nineteenth century , fairly soon became unimportant . |
| 16 | A group of Scots taken prisoner at Solway Moss , the earls of Glencairn and Cassillis , lords Fleming , Maxwell , Somerville and others , obtained their release and were sent back to Scotland when they signed a request to Henry that he should take Mary into his care , with the intention of marrying her to his son , the future Edward VI ; their offer that they would help to bring him to power in Scotland , should Mary die , was kept entirely secret . |
| 17 | None of these eternal operators faired very well when they had a posting to a training unit . |
| 18 | POLICE faced a pack of 30 dogs trained to attack when they answered a call to a sudden death at a cottage yesterday . |
| 19 | When they suggest a dance to my companion , Wesley , there seems no harm — but it turns into a smooch . |
| 20 | When they suggest a dance to my companion , Wesley , there seems no harm — but it turns into a smooch . |
| 21 | When they suggest a dance to my companion , Wesley , there seems no harm — but it turns into a smooch . |
| 22 | The management company makes an initial investment charge when it sells a unit to an investor and makes an annual charge on the value of the fund . |
| 23 | Embodying the alienation of the Westernized Latin-American intellectual , the protagonist of The Lost Steps , a musician resident in New York , recovers his lost identity as a man and as an artist when he undertakes an expedition to the jungles of the Orinoco , a journey that takes him backwards in time to a prehistoric world ; but his eventual return to civilization implies a recognition on Carpentier 's part that , for a twentieth-century Latin American , going back to one 's roots has to be compatible with the realities of the modern world . |
| 24 | He would pace the floor at meetings , pleading " Lord save souls " and leap over the seats shouting " Glory " when he saw an answer to his prayers . |
| 25 | So having got back to Egypt ( and he was being harried from one end of the Western Desert to the other by Rommel ) Boyce found himself in a caravan which was his headquarters and also where he lived when he received an order to hare back as fast as possible to El Alamein . |
| 26 | When he wrote a letter to the college newspaper criticising the compulsory chapels and boring sermons , he was expelled . |
| 27 | Mr MacGregor rejected Opposition charges that the Government 's plans had been torpedoed by the banks ' withdrawal when he made a statement to the Commons yesterday . |
| 28 | But when Kenneth Bowler was treated at hospital and when he made a statement to the police he said he had fallen on a fishing knife when he was drunk . |
| 29 | The potential for violence during Mr Mandela 's visit was illustrated when he cancelled a visit to a township outside Ladysmith yesterday after an ANC supporter in the township had been shot dead and another seriously wounded by unknown gunmen . |
| 30 | Indeed , Kenny only missed one match in three seasons 1976–79 ( when he missed a train to Bristol Rovers ! ) , and altogether had a run of 156 league games with just that one omission . |