Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore , it was not surprising that when I intervened on the hon. Member for Newham , North-East he was a little coy about referring to his party 's record on unemployment . |
| 2 | I was often to think of them when I reflected on the career of Portia Forbes . |
| 3 | I hit the ball great on the range but when I get on the course it all goes wrong . |
| 4 | And when I t when I got on a Friday and and paid me wages over to me Mum , which was natural for you to do , I always got th thre three pennies back . |
| 5 | When I got on the edge of the road I said to them , ‘ Who 's winning ? ’ |
| 6 | Anyway , when I got on the scales I 'm ten stone three . |
| 7 | I like to understand the meanings of words and always refer to a dictionary when I come on a new word . |
| 8 | Mm Forgetting all about oh dear I 've got a frog when I go on the air I 'll clear that . |
| 9 | Whether , of course , I would have taken this view were I to have had someone in my squadron who turned LMF is open to question , When I reflect on the young aircrew that I helped to train in 1940 at Kinloss , some 10 years younger than myself , I marvel that the conversation stage was the last stint before they were to confront a highly lethal opponent . |
| 10 | It makes me cough a bit because when I came on the scene he was the one academically everything and she was the one who was academically rather disadvantaged but she , she was , you know , no not having the greatest of , of , of success but erm it was said that she would n't be able to be a student nurse because she was n't bright enough but you know she clocked up the O levels and A levels like guide badges and she went off on this pre-nursing course in South Notts you know and she was in and out of the Queens on a course and people and , you know , and she said I do n't know all the answers but I 've a rough idea about some of the questions , I want to be a nurse and off she went to , to , to Walsall and I 'm not saying she 's a brilliant student nurse but erm absolutely clear that she 's better than some of the others . |
| 11 | I needed to earn a bit of extra money when I went on the tour and so I became a professional wrestler in my spare time . |
| 12 | But as i told you before , when the council started preparing for Hitler , in when I went on the council work in nineteen thirty six I had to fill the ditches in there . |
| 13 | Inspector , but anyhow , now when I went on the detective staff I 'd only been on the force just over three years |
| 14 | over subscribed courses as well , I mean when I went on the language and , and the national curriculum and that other thing that I did on the national curriculum , masses of people there . |
| 15 | ‘ The guides claimed to have taken us to the edge of the Sahara but when I looked on a map it was the Atlas mountains , the bastards . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ That 's just what I said to myself when I woke up this morning , but when I looked on the floor , there was the veil , torn in two halves ! ’ |
| 17 | Mm , when I looked on the other page there was more . |
| 18 | When I turned on the dishwasher or washing machine , the power required was taken out of the underfloor heat and returned to it immediately the machines were switched off . |
| 19 | ‘ When I stood on the first tee in the morning I could hardly see the fairway , ’ said the Atherstone club-mate and friend of Paul Broadhurst , the Ryder Cup player . |
| 20 | After a couple of days in his new home Skipper was much more relaxed ; he no longer jumped at every sound and soon learned that when I arrived on the yard in the morning , it meant food . |
| 21 | When I arrived on the scene , Joe was trying to come to terms with the situation but it was a difficult time all round . |
| 22 | The others went in the car and when I arrived on the bike a little later they 'd been down the 51 steps to the house and found it like the Marie Celeste , everything open , radio playing but no-one around . |
| 23 | But when I concentrated on the postage-stamp-sized photographs bearing his name that had started to appear , I could no longer be certain that he and The Fat Controller were one and the same . |
| 24 | I had a feeling it would be for the best , I said , when I stopped on the hard shoulder that day . |
| 25 | So when I appeared on the scene and there were things about me which did n't stack up … well , it was a reasonable conclusion to arrive at . |
| 26 | But he corrected me when I mused on the potency of class hatred and class anger in the Sheffield meeting . |
| 27 | When I emerged on the other side , our little game of hide-and-seek was over : he had vanished , taking the girl with him . |
| 28 | ‘ I was in a difficult situation when someone passed on the news Boro had won . |
| 29 | If she ever saw her , she thought worriedly ; she always seemed to be rushing off somewhere — and then she jumped when someone tapped on the door . |
| 30 | Two floors above , Jude heard what she took to be a domestic argument , and not wanting somebody else 's marital strife to sour her fine mood , was crossing to turn up the soul song on the turntable when somebody knocked on the door . |