Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a while , though , when I 'd turned down the side-street where the house was I hoped ) , there were no more sounds to frighten me , and as a result of course I grew much more afraid of the stuffed , dripping silence . |
| 2 | When I got sent down the judge said , ‘ You should be out for the baby 's birth ’ , but I was n't . |
| 3 | And when I had laid out the clothing , I began the even more important business of transferring my personal armament . |
| 4 | My reason for not signing the petition was quite clear : when I had spoken out the previous December not one other international , nor the IAC , had raised a peep when our sport was being vilified . |
| 5 | These notes were invaluable when I came to write up the results of the study . |
| 6 | So when I went creaking up the winding back staircase to the two attics and looked in through their respective doors ( ‘ Do n't touch , dear … |
| 7 | ‘ We shall have separate practice sessions from now on , when I have worked out the timetable . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm off now , ’ he continued , ‘ ter meet yer Mum , so when yer 've cleared up the table yer can get ter bed . ’ |
| 9 | When you 've filled in the grid , rearrange the letters in the shaded squares to make up another word to do with the Club . |
| 10 | When you 've punched out the pattern rows , place the check card behind your newly punched card and check that only blue is showing through the holes . |
| 11 | Cos when you 've worked out the questions you can put them at the front . |
| 12 | Before starting to write , read through the whole of the examination paper and jot down in the margin the names of plaintiffs ( or criminal defendants ) in any relevant cases you remember , the dates of statutes and any other details that are likely to elude you when you come to write out the question . |
| 13 | This way , when you come to cut up the cake every child gets a piece with his or her name on it . |
| 14 | There will be occasions when you want to drain down the cold water system . |
| 15 | You should fill in : 1 Date of purchase 2 Your own sales number and initials 3 Description of goods 4 Quantity of goods 5 Cost per item ( unit cost ) 6 Total cost 7 Authorization code 8 Whether the goods are to be taken away or delivered You should also check the details on the card : 1 The expiry date 2 The signature ( make sure that it matches the one on the voucher ) 3 The strip on which the customer 's name is written ( make sure it has n't been tampered with ) When you have filled in the information , the customer signs the form . |
| 16 | When you have worked out the words send the whole of this leaflet to : — |
| 17 | On the other hand , when she had taken up the carpets for a dance for Algy and filled the house with sixteen-year-old boys from Harrow and Marlborough , she twitched to the thin soprano signals of public-school lust like a dog hearing the squeak of a rat in its sleep . |
| 18 | When she had spread out the tea-things , Mrs Syms said : |
| 19 | When she had put down the phone , Sandra leapt out of her seat . |
| 20 | J.D. had told her on her last visit , when she had handed in the column she had just read , that there had been a large number of letters about Vesta 's contribution and he would be publishing some of them in the next issue . |
| 21 | She had been discovered as a fourteen-year-old Moscow prostitute when she decided to take on the whole of a KGB barrackroom who were in need of relief . |
| 22 | Then Susan comes in , and when she has put down the tray she is carrying , she turns the light on beside his chair and draws the curtains so that the room becomes a series of pools of light , isolating each of us . |
| 23 | Here was someone in the top position virtually starting from scratch as far as the day-to-day running of the various institutions were concerned , When she tried to lay down the law experienced officers found it hard to stomach . |
| 24 | When we left to set up the course the total had crept up to about 30 . |
| 25 | And also when we , when we 've worked out the best fit preference , I 'll explain a bit more about how the dynamic relationship |
| 26 | I was astonished when we began walking down the now weed-strewn path to feel a familiar feeling of fear and expectation . |
| 27 | I mean I could understand when we had to climb up the belt which was damn dangerous , but now we 've altered all that . |
| 28 | I can imagine , when we have set up the institutions and signed in principle to the treaty , the Whips coming up to me and saying , ‘ Look here , Spicer , you are talking about this opt-out as if it were a real option . |
| 29 | And then there Further up the glen from me , from our , house there 's a place called Dalnasnecht It 's a little place in the beside the water and beyond it there 's a great piece of ground on the hill and it was called er Argyll 's Reed where Argy Where all Where Argyll 's men stayed when they came to burn down the bonny house early , Forter Castle . |
| 30 | When they come to write up the results of their research different anthropologists will , for doctrinal reasons , give very different weight to these two major aspects of the data , but , in the field , the anthropologist must always pay attention to both sides . |