Example sentences of "[verb] when [pron] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we 've actually given you the full thing in , the minutes , the mights , and where and whatever , you can look at it and say hey , there 's too much of that but what we 're addressing is the moral aspect of a child 's upbringing that perhaps we should be and say well right fine er , it might , I 'm just taking on environmental , right , now the year children to do environment there , but it 's really happening down there , I feel that these children in the past have n't he so can we take that out this year and bring in something totally new , totally different that you feel should go in erm so that it is more rationalised it 's not just my people doing what they want when you see the , the whole thing you can make suggestions and we come back and go back through it again we actually say to the form teachers this is what this will definitely happen for this term but when we 've looked at the whole five year sa side we might change some things . |
| 2 | They used to giggle and splutter when they saw the old man , thinking of him sitting on a toadstool in the moonlight . |
| 3 | He presented the music box , which was received with every expression of pleasure by Isobel , and the monkey to Dorothy , who could not help laughing when she saw it , because it was so typical of a craze for stuffed animals amongst the girls she had met in Tollemarche . |
| 4 | No wonder that we cheer when we see older generations giving it just one more go , not because they expect to hear bells ringing or lights flashing , but because they want to reach out and feel that reassuring touch or see that reaffirming glance which means they have an ally in the world who uniquely cares that they thrive . |
| 5 | He was frightened and trembled when he saw iron bars because of his earlier experience of detentions . |
| 6 | As George Graham put it : ‘ The day has come when we see that the country has gone to the dogs . |
| 7 | Thereafter , prune when you see long growths taking the goodness out of the tree ; in late summer cut back all whippy shoots to 4in , then in February or March cut back again to two buds . |
| 8 | Any vestige of friendship Grassi might have retained was to disappear when he saw a letter from Florence claiming that the Jesuits would be powerless to answer Galileo 's arguments . |
| 9 | They began to scream when they saw me , and their mother fainted . |
| 10 | But we all change , and I changed when I saw you . |
| 11 | The Imperial troops posted to defend the river gates from Kislev fled when they saw the green horde stretched out across the horizon and advancing at full speed towards them . |
| 12 | Maggie exclaimed when she saw her sister framed in the kitchen doorway . |
| 13 | Lawler exclaimed when he saw her . |
| 14 | Patrick pretended to hide when he saw Rain was after him . |
| 15 | They stopped when they saw him , then dived right and left , but at fifty yards the rifle was lethal and Sharpe saw his bullet lift a man clean off the ground . |
| 16 | The others pushed on past him in the doorway , but they too stopped when they saw what was revealed on the other side of the windows . |
| 17 | They would start to jeer at the company , but stopped when they saw the Hearthware sashes and the Myrcan staves and whispered amongst themselves . |
| 18 | She was scribbling a note , but stopped when she saw Alice , with a smile that was both severe and weak , telling Alice that Pat had not wanted to face the business of goodbyes , and would now hurry through them . |
| 19 | Mrs Joe was saying as she came out of the kitchen , ‘ The pie — has — gone ! ’ but stopped when she saw the soldiers . |
| 20 | She stopped when she saw me , wound the window down . |
| 21 | He stopped when he saw Katherine sweeping down the stairs . |
| 22 | He stopped when he saw the twisted grin on Luther 's face , and it made him remember with a falling heart that this man was not his real father . |
| 23 | He came after me , but he stopped when he saw me go inside ( as I instinctively knew he would — the only safe place from him was down here ) . |
| 24 | He stopped when he saw Jotan and Jehan sitting there , and then bowed hastily . |
| 25 | He stopped when he saw the car and made as if to turn back . |
| 26 | He stopped when he saw them and asked if they wanted to come with him . |
| 27 | Stapleton stopped when he saw us , and then walked forward again . |
| 28 | I began to laugh but stopped when I saw my uncle 's white face . |
| 29 | I never before worked with such complete belief in and admiration for any man or any government and one 's faith in democracy is apt to be shattered when one sees a man like S.B. defeated by falsehood and misrepresentation . |
| 30 | He dreamed of going out in glory , winning the best-platoon prize — a dream that appeared to be shattered when he saw Ken and his barrack mates arrive . |