Example sentences of "[noun] when [pers pn] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | On the undercard on Thursday Darlington welterweight Charlie Moore will have his third professional contest when he meets Alfreton 's Joe Corcoran . |
| 2 | In fact , it came as a complete surprise to the hoteliers of Ramsey when they were given notice to quit their premises within six days , leaving behind ‘ all furniture , bedding , linen , cutlery , crockery and utensils ’ . |
| 3 | He had kept lurchers when they were children , and used to take Francis lamping for rabbits . |
| 4 | ‘ It is unnatural , ’ said the Sheikha when we met some months later . |
| 5 | They were looking for food , of course , and would suddenly plunge downwards at lightning speed when they spotted something . |
| 6 | He had been driving at high speed when me helicopter flew past him . |
| 7 | For a big man , he could move with surprising speed when he wanted to . |
| 8 | So he jumped astride a tractor and was being driven at maximum speed when he was told by somebody landing one of his aircraft alongside " You are not so far in advance of Rommel 's recce tanks " . |
| 9 | The auto gearbox refuses to take the revcounter needle anywhere near the red line ( and that 's set only at 4500rpm ) , which means the chances of kicking down into a lower gear are limited , making A-road overtaking manoeuvres more ponderous than they should be and knocking a substantial hole in the cruising speed when you meet a hill . |
| 10 | Also , the turnaround found in bars 13–16 is a little tricky so , if you have any problems , break it down into small parts and practise it slowly , only building up the speed when you 're feeling more comfortable . |
| 11 | Blake noticed that people used more than words when they communicated with each other , and realised that horses did the same . |
| 12 | His lips were still purse on the last words when they suddenly sprang wide as he saw her almost stagger back from him , her hand to her throat , the colour draining from her face . |
| 13 | ‘ I wonder ’ , she said , ‘ whether any of you three who know how to spell cat have learned how to read a whole group of words when they are strung together in a sentence ? ’ |
| 14 | Kleiman found that shadowing produced only moderate interference with judgements about the meanings of individual words when they were presented in pairs , whereas rhyming judgements were impaired . |
| 15 | Subjects spent longer reading words when they occurred at the end of a clause or a sentence . |
| 16 | Also , various frames need to be used in order to find out if anything changes in the words when they are checked against frames with other words or pitch . |
| 17 | You can sense the interdependence of words when they change their significance according to the words around them . |
| 18 | Troilus and Cressida say all the right words when they are informed of the Trojan plan to retrieve Antenor , but the fact that they say so much , and use such perfectly formed phrases , invalidates the underlying emotions . |
| 19 | I 'd like the words when they 're crytalised … since thefirst thing my daughter ( now 19months ) learned to do was the arm movements to ‘ ooh aah Cantona ’ , I suppose I should teach her something new … perhaps I 'll modify the last phrase though ; - ) |
| 20 | Now I was conscious of Aisha 's words when we stood together in the storeroom and she tried to dissuade me from going to London : ‘ Go alone to London without an aunt or a husband or your mother and they 'll say you 've sold your soul . |
| 21 | His words when we met at the start of the Championship kept coming back : ‘ Willie , I 'm going to win the Open for you this week . |
| 22 | I heard a man at the Bristol Cancer Help Centre say the very same words when we were discussing ‘ Who am I ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't like 'er , ’ were Frankie 's first words when we were out of earshot . |
| 24 | I mean , I am not playing with words when I say this , but it wo n't improve as fast as we would have liked it to do because of the financial situation . |
| 25 | To measure the intensity of his hatred , it is only necessary to add that he wrote these words when it was public knowledge that women and children by the thousands were among the population of those camps . |
| 26 | Frith ( 1980 ) has suggested that these good readers attempt to " spell by ear " , in that they rely tao heavily upon the phonological representations of words when it is more appropriate to use orthographic rules with a purely visual spelling check . |
| 27 | The LVF advantage at the shortest duration implies that the right hemisphere may recognise genuine words when it sees them , even though it can not necessarily identify them , which suggests that in this respect the right half of the brain is not inferior to the left . |
| 28 | NOOBLE HOOBLE or NOBBER : Rude words when you 're in space and no one can hear you scream them . |
| 29 | You 've got to count your words when you 're playing the recorder . |
| 30 | Strong words when you consider the market in cholesterol-lowering drugs has expanded by 34.4 per cent a year for the last five years . |