Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [verb] one [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I fire one gunshot , they go . |
| 2 | I tried the back again , he bladdered it and he bladdered the f front , but says he was just about to go when I opened one eye . |
| 3 | When I learned one day that an amateur American flyer had set ‘ the world 's record ’ in altitude for a single-engined aircraft , carrying two to a height of more than 18,000 feet , I saw the possibility of a news story if I could beat that record . |
| 4 | When I finish one colour I cut it from under the yarn guides at the back of the machine , leaving the yarn threaded through the assembly . |
| 5 | And you will when you wake one day |
| 6 | Yet , you may well be doing just that when you write one press release for the former magazine and another on the same subject for the latter because both publications are on your public relations media schedule as targets . |
| 7 | When you have one wheel stuck in bent tramlines while the other is banging through mud-filled , cobble-strewn potholes the size of small mineshafts , it sharpens up your steering technique no end . |
| 8 | Doing them altogether , I find difficult to do , apart from the weather point of view , if it could be fitted to two maybe , you know you co you go to somewhere in Church Stretton okay , it 's distant enough when you have one place to go , when you do the Wellington section , you 've got four , and I find it very difficult to work and chase round to children 's homes , to give it any . |
| 9 | So what is the best way to do , that where you ask the questions , now they did if you could help me out is the when you do one section an you hand all your papers in somebody else marks them |
| 10 | shows you a little tiny picture of the calculator and when you press one button it presses the button on the thing and then he showed me the clock |
| 11 | You an also bed the crazy paving or slabs directly on to the surface of wet concrete , but you will have problems in achieving a completely level finish , because when you tap one piece down level it will force one of the previously laid pieces upward . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , but you do n't want to … ’ she began to deny , but her voice faded when she saw one eyebrow ascend — as if it was unheard-of for anyone to tell him what he wanted or did not want to do . |
| 13 | Isabel could have bitten her tongue when she saw one corner of fitzAlan 's mouth kick up . |
| 14 | Bush vetoed the measure , and said he refused " to be part of business as usual when we have one deficit after another piling up " . |
| 15 | More subtle effects occur when we compare one complex with another , so ligand-ligand transition energies will vary with the nature and charge of the central metal atom . |
| 16 | Tension is also created when we expect one thing , and something else , quite different , occurs . |
| 17 | This is the reason why toads , when they seize one end of a worm , methodically rake the length of it with their forefeet to remove any bits of sticks or earth that might be stuck to it . |
| 18 | You see , I was with her when they met one day in the rose-garden and I watched their faces as they talked together . ’ |
| 19 | Now er I could make a point here that when they introduced one man operated buses , they thought they were on to a new thing but one man operated buses were in this town before the war . |
| 20 | A man never thinks , when he undertakes one journey , that he may not return from it to contemplate another . |
| 21 | Or , if he really wants to worry aloud , he recalls the time not long ago when he woke one morning to find a black man looming over him in his bedroom carrying most of the clothes from wardrobe in one hand and the family carving knife in the other . |
| 22 | Stark 's confidence appears to have been at a low ebb but the Scotland manager , Duncan Paterson , has been reminding him of his form earlier in the season : at the Dubai Sevens , which the Scots won ; in the A international against Italy in Melrose when the Boroughmuir winger had a hand in both tries ; and in his senior international debut against Ireland at Murrayfield , when he scored one try and was heavily involved in the other from Tony Stanger . |
| 23 | When he opened one eye the light was so bright he closed it again hurriedly . |
| 24 | I got some more sedatives in anticipation , and eventually had to turn him out when he decided one night that enough was enough and kicked several large holes in the stable wall . |
| 25 | His large , gnarled hands had very gently stroked the soft flannel over the protesting muddle of arms and legs on his towelled lap , and when he held one leg by the ankle and it slipped from his grasp as the baby kicked , his sudden exclamation of horror had started a loud wail and reduced Carrie to a fit of laughter at her husband 's awkwardness . |