Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] when [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stopped rehearsing when they reached the end of Act One . |
| 2 | African-Americans in South Central mostly hate Korean store owners and there 's no getting around the fact , as Jesse Jackson tried to do when he said the assaults on Koreans were not racist . |
| 3 | These are precisely the questions that the peace movement has to address when it contemplates the use of law and many of these aspects are discussed in Part III of the book . |
| 4 | A definition , along the right lines but too broad , is that an animal has signalled when it changes the behaviour of another animal . |
| 5 | I thought of the stack of dirty crocks to tackle after tea , of pictures and furniture that were once polished every week , and now got done when I had the time . |
| 6 | Suddenly she dropped his hand and slid her arms about his waist , knowing she 'd won when she felt the thunder of his heart against her cheek as she burrowed her face against his chest . |
| 7 | The leaders of the teams on the controls could see her , so she would n't have to mess around with semaphore and bits of thread like they 'd done when they left the Store . |
| 8 | As cells move upwards from the base , they continue to divide , but , unlike the stem cells , they have lost their immortality and they stop dividing when they approach the surface where they are sloughed off . |
| 9 | This was the inheritance which Nicholas II ( 1894–1917 ) pledged to uphold when he ascended the throne . |
| 10 | We can debate statementing when we examine the Bill . |
| 11 | Cats usually begin spraying when something upsets the fine balance of their day-to-day life . |
| 12 | All I 've got to do when I give the tape back is |
| 13 | What was she going to face when they reached the privacy of the solar ? |
| 14 | I mean , I knew what was going to happen when I started the exercise , but if you contemplate it from a teacher 's point of view , if I go out and commit suicide or break down you 'll know why , wo n't you . |
| 15 | That is what we intend to do when we remove the Government from office at the earliest opportunity . |
| 16 | She was halfway round and beginning to fret when she entered the Fragonard Room and was briefly transported to a French salon of the eighteenth century . |
| 17 | He did not pause to rest when he reached the next hedge , but continued on , driving his exhausted body ruthlessly onwards . |
| 18 | The view McTaggart finds unsatisfactory — that ‘ I ’ is known by description — seems to be that to which Russell had become converted when he wrote The Analysis of Mind ( 1921 ) . |
| 19 | The applicant did not wish to retire when she reached the age of 60 and that requirement was waived by the authority until shortly after her sixty-second birthday , when she was dismissed . |
| 20 | That satisfaction would smartly have evaporated when he reached the clearing and found me gone . |
| 21 | She was therefore a little disconcerted to find when they left the station that instead of waiting for a taxi Lady Selvedge began to stride away in the direction of Victoria Street , saying ‘ I know just the place for us to get a snack . |
| 22 | The papers to which he had referred , and which he kept in a tin box underneath his bed , contained an unexpected coda to this small adventure — an unfortunate little postscript which reminded me how Captain Scott must have felt when he reached the South Pole only to find that Amundsen had beaten him to it . |
| 23 | My eyes were immediately attracted to the table and my mouth started watering when I saw the home-made cakes and jam tarts laid out on a white lace tablecloth . |
| 24 | There were more trucks around it , and also several humans that started to run when they saw the shadow of the Ship . |
| 25 | He knew he should have fired when he had the chance ; by leaving it too late , he 'd lost the advantage . |
| 26 | Now I 'd have to say when I saw the report in the Observer , which was a couple of months ago , the rape in the quad report , my feeling was that this was a national newspaper picking on Oxford because Oxford and sex makes great headlines and it was going to be a good sell , and I felt that it was inappropriate in that sexual harassment is a problem in other campuses . |
| 27 | That always seems to happen when you break the ice . |
| 28 | The grumbles of J. Alfred Prufrock in early Eliot are endurable if they are meant to be ridiculous , but only then ; and sitting around on Margate sands , or anywhere else , trying to connect nothing with nothing may be all right for Harvard men abroad , but ( as Eliot must already have discovered when he wrote The Waste Land ) it has nothing to do with the daily life of the Londoner . |
| 29 | ‘ Do n't forget to phone when you have the chance , ’ Myra said , shrugging her shoulders helplessly as Roman opened the door . |
| 30 | Sullivan took the opener 7-4 but then Duff looked to have taken command when he won the second 7-3 and the next 7-0 . |