Example sentences of "when [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's difficult to tell when someone is using drugs only occasionally — unless they are caught in the act , or when intoxicated like being drunk . |
| 2 | Queensland batsman Greg Ritchie was dined $A500 for abusive language when dismissed in the NSW match at Sydney , the penalty being suspended for 12 months . |
| 3 | Thor cornered a knife-wielding miscreant in a small wood and , when joined by handler Derek Williams , stopped the ne'er-do-well stabbing his human mate several times . |
| 4 | Second , there will be a border area where the two interpretations merge , in the sense that certain particular values for adjective and noun meanings , when joined in an attributive combination , will under either interpretation always correspond to identical external situations ; hence even highly sophisticated investigators might be hard put to it to tell whether a given adjective is simply applicable to X or has as its value having the property of being-related-to-X . |
| 5 | When joined in 1975 all products were packed and loaded manually . |
| 6 | De Pomiane was the first writer to propound such happenings as the fusion of egg yolks and olive oil in a mayonnaise , the sizzling of a potato chip when plunged into fat for deep-frying , in language so straightforward , so graphic , that even the least scientifically minded could grasp the principles instead of simply learning the rules . |
| 7 | Unlike Ash , he can still function effectively when ripped in half ( after all , 57 years of technical progress have elapsed ) and saves her life as well as Newt 's . |
| 8 | The male does not attack it but , when mounting the tiny animal , simply performs the perfectly normal neck-bite that he employs when copulating with a female . |
| 9 | When eating on your own or with the family , serve a variety of crudités ( raw vegetables ) soaked in lemon juice or with a little reduced calorie mayonnaise as a dip . |
| 10 | He favours the plain dishes when eating at home , such as a plate of mince , sardines , spaghetti or bacon and eggs . |
| 11 | It 's hard not to get indigestion when eating with them as you are constantly chatting with them . |
| 12 | Keep to the safest , simplest dishes when eating in restaurants while you follow the F-Plan slimming diet . |
| 13 | Even when devolved to team manager level , teams can ‘ go broke ’ and a certain amount of chaos ensues . |
| 14 | The biggest surprise here is that the TBM 700 seems to shrink into a much smaller and lighter aircraft when flown below ninety knots and down to the gear-down/flaps-down 61-knot stall speed . |
| 15 | a specially coded hyphen which is only displayed when formatting of the hyphenated word puts it at the end of a line . |
| 16 | When consulted on the alterations , the ladies considered that it was wiser to spend on greens and approaches but ‘ if on the clubhouse then for the caretaker ’ — i.e. a larger kitchen and scullery ’ , although they admitted they would like more basins and another w.c . |
| 17 | Moreover , the Director of Public Prosecutions himself , when consulted about the proposal , expressed doubt as to how the public interest criterion would be interpreted in such cases . |
| 18 | As with SEQ , we will always use 5.1 and 5.2 to reduce PAR to a binary operator when transforming to normal form . |
| 19 | This size of miniature looks quite lovely when ranged together in small groups of two or three , and I think they look best of all when hanging in a straight vertical line ( see p. 101 ) . |
| 20 | The local doctors believed that when undertaken by the child 's mother it could have positive effects but fundamentalists like the magistrate insisted that any such teaching was morally wrong . |
| 21 | Hurt by ‘ the ungenerous treatment which I met with from that very sex whose sufferings I was at so much pains to relieve ’ , he was glad to leave Aberdeen when recalled to active duty in the Royal Navy . |
| 22 | Polyethylene , poly(tetrafluoroethylene) and other chains with more complex backbones containing , , and groups all possess a suitable symmetry for crystallite formation and usually assume extended zig-zag conformations when aligned in the lattice . |
| 23 | Watercolours of a very delicate or atmospheric style will exhibit greater subtlety when painted on Hot Pressed surfaces . |
| 24 | Rubber-based and liquid plastic paints also prevent free lime from escaping when painted over the entire surface of the concrete . |
| 25 | And they also said that astonishingly pretty results can be attained with whitewood furniture when painted in pastel colours . |
| 26 | Here he found Frank a great help as he had a fair knowledge of native North American trees and shrubs which , when checked with the big books , sounded as though they 'd do well in the peaty soil of Eire . |
| 27 | One of these two , when checked with the Archdeacon , proved to be dead . |
| 28 | When checked for straightness , this crankshaft was found to have little or no distortion . |
| 29 | Apparently they had no friends , with the possible exception of Roger — and she had seen him stiffen slightly when referred to as ‘ old Rodge ’ . |
| 30 | We have already used the vector Xi to describe the position of a point in the material when referred to axes in the undeformed state and considered its transformation to a point xj on deformation . |