Example sentences of "[noun sg] when [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of what we saw related discouragingly to familiar bad habits , a thought that occurred , not for the first time , to George Cohen , who for the benefit of younger readers made a notable contribution to the history of English football when turning out in the 1966 World Cup final . |
| 2 | It is not always possible to give adequate thought to the future when caught up in the day-to-day running of an operation , but if you live the business , as Sir Hector unashamedly does , there are always less hectic times to mull over major issues . |
| 3 | Attractive features include : a lighter product , no tube to create extra weight when working out of the studio , a cheaper product without sacrificing the quality of the pigment , simplification of process , no need for palette and knife , mediums and preparations ; neither is there a need to clean up and put caps back on tubes and tops on bottles at the end of a day 's work ! |
| 4 | Although the hammock episode is explicable in terms of his experience , the subsequent transition to drifting above the ground can not reasonably be related to his usual fate when falling out of the hammock ; these dreams , which are not uncommon , seem uniquely detached from any experience in real life . |
| 5 | One of the first things to catch the visitor 's eye when starting down from the castle esplanade is a cannonball lodged in the wall of a house , believed to have been fired from the castle at Holyroodhouse in 1745 when anti-Jacobite forces on the Castle Rock were at odds with Prince Charles Edward at the lower end of the town . |
| 6 | PC Robinson advised owners to cover up the digital light of the video recorder when going out during the evening . |
| 7 | The ones shown are only the simplest ; each winds only once around the z-axis when projected on to the x-y plane . |
| 8 | The Leeds manager , I understand , was only too happy to let him go after a month of turmoil at Elland Road which culminated in a walk-out last weekend by the flamboyant Frenchman when left out of the Arsenal game . |
| 9 | He had long ago noticed that if you stared at a customs officer when going out through the green channel , the customs officer stopped you . |