Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] one of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd therefore grown used to getting a certain amount of respect from other drivers , so when I found one of the clapped-out Toyotas favoured by Asian families in my path one morning I expected a free passage . |
| 2 | You 'll need to use the claw when you pick one of the big pawpaws . |
| 3 | When you select one of the graphics chart templates , the data form that appears resembles a spreadsheet . |
| 4 | To emphasise this safety point , Qualcast is offering its Power-Safe RCD at half-price when you buy one of the company 's mowers . |
| 5 | But when you loosened one of the slate blocks from the castle walls — an easy job , as the castle was slowly crumbling away — and split it open , on every surface so exposed a series of cut or engraved figures was revealed , arranged in lines and columns , complete with word and line breaks and what looked like punctuation . |
| 6 | But , when she saw one of the tough , huge policemen casting his eyes up to the ceiling in exasperation , she hurriedly continued her story . |
| 7 | Nanny was humming softly to herself when she took one of the big tins from the shelf to make a meal of corned-beef slices and wedges of onion fried in batter . |
| 8 | If a defendant merely carries on a hobby , e. g. of buying , refurbishing and re-selling cars , a court might find that a transaction made in pursuance of the hobby , e.g. when he sells one of the refurbished cars , is not ‘ in the course of a trade or business , ’ Blackmore v. Belamy ( 1983 D. C. ) . |
| 9 | Martyn Colbeck , natural history film-maker , had been working by the Manu river in Peru for the BBC 's Trials of Life series when he feared one of the worst trials of his life was about to begin . |
| 10 | When he knocked one of the seats he heard paper shift on painted metal , and he grabbed for it . |
| 11 | One of Mr Kitchen 's victims was stretched on the turf awaiting urgent medical attention when he heard one of the Barnsley supporters shout at the trainer : ‘ Do n't revive him . |
| 12 | Albert was joking with the kids and grinning when he heard one of the porters talking , leaning on his luggage-trolley and speaking loudly . |
| 13 | It was after the Revolution that Gould first came to prominence when he became one of the largest suppliers of hemp , pitch , and tar to the Royal Navy ; and in this capacity , immediately before the War of the Spanish Succession , he played an important part in providing the navy with Russian hemp from Archangel in place of the supplies that could no longer be obtained from Riga ( beleaguered by the Russians ) . |
| 14 | In 1626 he reported to the Commons on the outcome of the York House conference , at which George Villiers , first Duke of Buckingham [ q.v. ] , had declared his support for Arminianism ; and when he delivered one of the Commons charges against Buckingham in the Lords he added his own gloss that he was ‘ the principal patron of a semi-pelagian , semi-popish faction , dangerous to church and state , lately set on foot among us . ’ |
| 15 | Gundobad had contemplated conversion to catholicism , and Sigismund was already a catholic by 515 , when he founded one of the most prestigious of early medieval monasteries , that of St Maurice at Agaune . |