Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] when [pers pn] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Davis , himself , paved the way for this when he admitted the existence of arid and glacial cycles of erosion . |
| 2 | The consequence of excommunication for Jacob was economic isolation : he was forced to give up his trade ( also shoemaking ) and was given redress for this when he petitioned the Long Parliament in 1640 . |
| 3 | Just as the Prime Minister , or whoever briefed him , will be doing a few months after that when he tells the House that the report that Summerchild was working on was the comparability study which has since been published . |
| 4 | There were two problems , the youngest children 's reading was n't good enough to manage the menu and most were too short to actually see over the tops of the containers on the heated cabinet to make their choice , because of this when they reached the counter they asked to have the same as the child in front making a nonsense of the notion of choice . |
| 5 | This is traditional children 's Christmas holiday fare and those of you with sprogs still naive enough to appreciate it could do worse than plonk them in front of this when they start the equally traditional post-present grizzling . |
| 6 | In the European championship 125 race Robert Dunlop scored maximum points and did his image a world of good when he beat the hot favourite Stefano Perugini , the unbeaten championship leader . |
| 7 | In the European championship 125 race Robert Dunlop scored maximum points and did his image a world of good when he beat the hot favourite Stefano Perugini , the unbeaten championship leader . |
| 8 | . And nine times out of ten when I ask the congregation whether your church is bigger now than it was when it was founded nine times out of ten the congregation say , it is smaller now than when it was founded . |
| 9 | ‘ It did n't seem to look like that when I had the fitting . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ It was like this when he won the Queen Elizabeth last year so I wo n't mind if it keeps pouring down for him or Lochsong , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Her eyes keep going like this when she heard the noise . |
| 12 | I think it 's interesting the way that somebody like Muriel Gray tried to break with that when she co-presented The Tube with Jools Holland and Paula Yates . |
| 13 | ‘ You do n't want to be sitting by Long Island Sound with the sun shining down on the water and the sky streaked with apricot when you hear the news that your Dad has died . |
| 14 | Those who now come to read Russian at Nottingham do so in a world much changed from that when I entered the Department twenty years ago . |
| 15 | Eight-year-olds were beginning to acknowledge the distinction , in that when they used the causal connectives in the deductive mode they appropriately followed because with evidence and so with a conclusion . |
| 16 | Clarke virtually admitted that he did not believe that these important issues should be discussed in public when he defended the government 's decision not to publish the advice on science funding which it had received from the Advisory Board for the Research Councils . |
| 17 | And then when we finished er finished the game about , I do n't know must have been about twenty to eleven when we finished the game there was sandwiches and chips coming out . |
| 18 | Former Social Security Secretary Patrick Jenkin alluded to this when he cut the benefit to which homeless men were entitled on the grounds that people would be aggrieved by these itinerants getting " more actual cash in hand by being homeless ( sometimes by choice ) than by contributing toward the cost of a household and accepting the attendant responsibilities . |
| 19 | They 've taken his dabs and examined the mallet , but we left it at that when we knew the Yard had been called in and you were on your way . |
| 20 | Indeed the kinds of arguments that are mustered ( Jesus did not ordain women and that is a fact , the church has not ordained women and that is a fact , women in all societies have been subordinate to men and that is a fact ) become no arguments at all when we realize the context in which Jesus did what he did , when we know that the biological views on which Thomas Aquinas ' views were founded were false , and live in a world in which ( in our western societies at least ) women are coming to take their place as the equals of men . |
| 21 | She is frightened of some noises — like the vacuum cleaner — but does n't bother at all when I use the lawnmower or hedge-cutter . |
| 22 | I noticed that even the adults showed no ill effects at all when I moved the odd battered brother or post-spawning female to recoup in a low pH growing-on tank . |
| 23 | I did n't recognise my sister at first when she opened the door , she 'd cut her hair , but the eyes were the same , there were small creases at the sides , the skin puffy , roughened by crying . |
| 24 | At Nice when he heard the devastating news that his Portuguese friend , the artist Amedeo de Sousa Cardoso , had died of Spanish flu he broke down and sobbed like a child . |