Example sentences of "[verb] when [pron] [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.

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31 It is not unlike the feeling a good scientist gets when he senses he is within range of something interesting .
32 Well Yvonne went into the private to get er a sister 's post and sh but she knew she was gon na do her midwifery , so she knew she was n't gon na stay there but when she went it 's become when she does her midwifery for the sister 's post , ah but she 's got experience has n't she when she 's
33 Deconstruction is the form it takes when it turns its attention to specific texts .
34 What a voter is saying when he gives his first-preference vote to a particular candidate of a particular party is , " I want this candidate , of this party , to be elected " .
35 Mrs Thatcher , though , is there , and triumphantly there , and will be triumphally acclaimed when she has her say tomorrow .
36 If only she could understand the excruciating pain her boys are suffering when she treats them like this , and realise that they will carry that pain for the rest of their lives .
37 Mr Nicos , the manager of the Kamara , will be welcoming Club guests for the sixth summer running when he opens his doors in Summer '90 and once again he is looking forward to dealing exclusively with us .
38 She starts crying when she sees my expression .
39 Although insistent scolding , nagging and criticizing may be counter-productive , the effects of a really loud , convincing ‘ No ! ’ — the kind of short , sharp verbal ‘ shock ’ which a mother can produce when she sees her child about to poke her finger into her baby brother 's eye — may well be highly successful .
40 Inside the little shop , a doleful Asian youth wearing finger mittens , walled in behind racks of cheap digital watches , ballpoint pens , sweets , and music cassettes , shakes his head and shrugs when she asks him the name of the street .
41 She 's going to die when she sees him .
42 But I thought when he puts his mind to it he can really try ca n't he ?
43 What does it mean when it says it is the last time .
44 What does it mean when it says you know all things .
45 doubt when he gives them to thingy me bob
46 He speaks when he has something to say , I 'll talk about anything with anyone .
47 All that changes when she meets her match in Doug .
48 I have a great respect for the floating voter and I am confident he will see which side his bread is buttered when he casts his vote this time .
49 so they 're trying to corner it and it 's munching on grass quite happily , you could see it was watching a minute , but it was watching them away and I think er any minute it 's looking out the corner of its eye and then it 's just gon na go when he sees it getting closer .
50 When leaving the hospital , parents are loaned a rear-facing car seat for the baby , which the midwife collects when she makes her first home visit .
51 Obviously there are other aspects of intelligent behaviour , some of which Bali may discourage ; perhaps a time will come when he tells himself ‘ I 've run away from a big world to a little one , I was wrong ’ .
52 Sun is clearly demonstrating to Bill Gates some of the black arts on which the Unix industry has cut its teeth — more of which Microsoft can undoubtedly expect to face when it launches its Windows NT challenge .
53 In his chapter , ‘ Building on the class reader ’ , Foggin echoes the views of many of the English teachers to whom I spoke when he describes his English teaching as being substantially class reader based for the reason that :
54 I think when somebody teaches it they teach it in the premise that everybody they 're talking to is heterosexual .
55 It 'll all be changing when she owns her flat .
56 What one means when one calls something ‘ white ’ , according to Mill , is that one 's present sensation resembles a past one .
57 Others say that the resemblance one notices is between sensations , and that what one means when one says something is white is that a sensation one has on looking at it resembles a sensation one has had before and to which one gave the name ‘ sensation of white ’ .
58 This being so , when a person says that he feels a pain in his foot , what he means is not anything like what he means when he says he feels a pin in his foot .
59 Yeah but I know what he means when he says he ca n't and I said to him I said ooh I feel a bit out of sorts this morning , sort of I do n't know how you must feel having to go to work .
60 But lets just notice two or three things in this particular interview , the first thing that we see and its so obvious is that the way of salvation is so wondrously simple , it could n't be easier , you know there are so many people who think it is hard to get saved , who think it is hard to come to Christ and to become a Christian , well the problem is you see the devil has blinded their eyes , they 've blinded the eyes of men and women , so that they think that they ca n't do this , but what is actually happened , Paul tells us in , in , in Carinthians in the first er , in to Carinthians in chapter four and verse four , he says the god of this world has blinded the eyes of the unbelieving that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ , who is the image of god , and there is this shroud , this covering , but the thing is god takes that away so that we can see and so its not difficult to become a Christian , it is not hard to get saved , sometimes as Christians we are guilty of making it difficult for people to become Christians , we put all sorts of rules in , we , we make them undergo various periods of er , of probation before we wer we 've were , were willing to call them Christians , remember the Philippine jailer he cried out there to the apostle Paul who was er in jail there with Silus the , the be , the tremendous earthquake and they were released all their vetoers was , were broken and the prisoners were all , could of escaped and the ja , the Philippine jailer he cries out a question that I 'm sure he does n't even know what he means when he calls it out , he 's not thinking of heaven , he 's not thinking of the future life , he 's not thinking of having his sins dealt with but he just cries out what must I do to be saved and the apostle Paul and he gets , opens the scrolls and he starts in genesis and he explains the plan of salvation and he tells him what he 's got to do and he explains all the requirements and then about three or four hours later the mans mind is completely blurred he does n't understand a word of it , its gone way beyond him
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