Example sentences of "[noun pl] when [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had kept lurchers when they were children , and used to take Francis lamping for rabbits . |
| 2 | Blake noticed that people used more than words when they communicated with each other , and realised that horses did the same . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Subjects spent longer reading words when they occurred at the end of a clause or a sentence . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | You can sense the interdependence of words when they change their significance according to the words around them . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ; - ) |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I heard a man at the Bristol Cancer Help Centre say the very same words when we were discussing ‘ Who am I ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't like 'er , ’ were Frankie 's first words when we were out of earshot . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | NOOBLE HOOBLE or NOBBER : Rude words when you 're in space and no one can hear you scream them . |
| 20 | You 've got to count your words when you 're playing the recorder . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Soon all London was saying King Richard 's famous words when his horse is killed in war : |
| 23 | THE Duchess of York yesterday left cancer-stricken Polish children lost for words when she handed out copies of her Budgie books in English . |
| 24 | What was the point of fighting him with words when she was utterly incapable of doing so physically ? |
| 25 | She did n't need to listen to the words when she could read her future in their eyes . |
| 26 | He started gawking at the people in the stands when he came into the stretch . |
| 27 | Neighbours also provided a missing ingredient in our diet of soaps when it became a five-times- a-week fixture back in 1988 . |
| 28 | ‘ Early statements of the model ( e.g. , Marslen-Wilson & Welsh ( 1978 ) ) assert that candidates drop out of the pool of word-candidates when they do not fit the specifications of context , in the same way as when they do not fit the accumulating sensory input . |
| 29 | Like actors remembered as great for just turning up , the moths are recalled as gigantic , vivid images when they were probably just spectral smudges . |
| 30 | This is surely a babyhood memory , slightly corrupted , of seeing the word ‘ toilets ’ reflected fleetingly in my nurse 's spectacles when we travelled from London to Dover to sail for the continent . |