Example sentences of "[prep] what [verb] when [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Elizabeth Wilson recorded once realising that she was more than usually anxious about the question of what to wear when she was going to talk to a feminist group . ) |
| 2 | Clearly , though , the use of observation schedules is putting more control on the behaviour of the observer , so we may now turn to a consideration of what happens when we go further along that axis . |
| 3 | ‘ I think a lot of what happens when you play solos has to do with what you 've been listening to lately . |
| 4 | This is not to say that selling public sector assets is an unwise activity ; only that cash accounts do not provide the complete picture of what happens when you do . |
| 5 | I knew nobody and had no idea of what to expect when I presented myself to the new teacher in my new black overall and white collar . |
| 6 | It was disturbing to hear the manager remind questioners of what happened when he made ‘ sensible ’ experiments in Saudi Arabia late last year : ‘ We got a 1-1 draw and a nasty headline . ’ |
| 7 | Donald Griffin tells a story of what happened when he and his colleague Robert Galambos first reported to an astonished conference of zoologists in 1940 their new discovery of the facts of bat echolocation . |
| 8 | Normally , one would assume that the particle will move on a straight line away from A. However , according to the sum over histories , it can move on any path that starts at A. It is like what happens when you place a drop of ink on a piece of blotting paper . |
| 9 | Before the maths master started on what to sacrifice when you could n't lay your hands on a goat , or how to cope with Ramadan in a modern technological society , Robert , muttering something about the need for discipline , marched off towards Mahmud . |
| 10 | An article which appeared in the paper contained comments by three jurors on what occurred when they retired to consider their verdict in one of the most complex trials in British legal history . |
| 11 | " I did , doctor , " I said demurely , not elaborating on what happened when I got there . |
| 12 | Economists can then theorise about what happens when we remove those assumptions one by one . |
| 13 | I mean as regards I agree with the woman when she was saying about she wanted to tell her husband about what happens when he comes home from work , but I think she wo n't need all those bulletins to tell him what 's happening , she can tell him the latest bulletin before he comes in the door , could n't she ? |
| 14 | Because students felt that they could not approach staff , they often had problems about what to do when they could n't understand the work : |
| 15 | Sitting down between two piles of books Endill began to read Useful Tips on Flying , but it was more about what to do when you had a plane rather than how to make one . |
| 16 | Howard smiles , and frowns , and thinks about it seriously as they all have tea in the orchard , and Miriam , in her dark glasses and clothes for motoring out to the country in , smokes furiously to keep away the insects , and chatters on about what happened when they went to dinner with the Chases the previous week , and Michael Wayland forgot Prue 's name . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm sorry about what happened when you came to the house , ’ she said . |
| 18 | He gave a succinct judgment about what happened when he said : ’ We have got to stamp out this sort of thing or it will spread like wildfire and become a new craze for the yobs . |
| 19 | Alright , and then there 's this extraordinary bit erm , that George has in the middle of page thirty , about what happened when he did run the history department for four years during the War . |