Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] [pers pn] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of the day I thought it looked very attractive , but whether it will catch the eye of a customer when I display it on the craft stall is another matter . |
| 2 | As I say , I only get 36 off the social and when I get it on a Monday , I usually spend 30 right away on food for the kids . |
| 3 | ‘ I mean to go to Italy one day , as my brother has done , ’ she told me , when I discovered her on a stone bench in the garden , reading a book . |
| 4 | ‘ She looked well enough to me when I saw her on the cake section of the WI stall yesterday morning ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I promised myself I 'd smash his handsome face when I saw him on the prison-ship . |
| 6 | One of these papers was a recent statement by the county education committee that no change in the status of the grammar school was contemplated : on that basis , I was able to reassure my anxious colleagues , when I met them on the first day of term , that abrupt change was not imminent . |
| 7 | When I met you on the road to Hay last night , I almost thought you had put a spell on my horse ! |
| 8 | When I rest it on the table it shudders and then sighs . |
| 9 | The Rosewood 's very close to a Jazzmaster sometimes , actually , because it 's very sweet ; when you put it on the front pickup it 's very mellow . |
| 10 | ‘ Then , when you disinherited me on the spot — oh , I do n't blame you for that , do n't think it ! — when you said we might reap the just rewards of our flight and marry as paupers , he … he left me flat . ’ |
| 11 | When you play it on the arcade |
| 12 | When she passed him on the stairs his expression told her he scarcely knew she was there . |
| 13 | Nora called when she saw him on the road just ahead of her . |
| 14 | When she tapped him on the arm he turned swiftly , his eyes suddenly narrowed at the sight of her . |
| 15 | So I told them what I would do , but once again I 've never been in the situation but this is what I 'll do , said as if they were me own parents make them as comfortable as I could while I 'll cleaned up and give them a bed bath or if they could shower , shower them and erm and get everything back to normal as quick as possible , fine , that were all fine she , and then as , as I got up from it they all said thanks a lot Joy it has been great you really have been great you 've made it easy , we 've got an easy day in front thanks to you , you know you 're bubbly and all this and then when she phoned me on the Sunday she said hello Joy it 's Sue here and I , I said will you let me know one way or the another cos I said I hate being left up in the air |
| 16 | Fiona drove her own car , the twin of Harry 's ( still lost ) , and settled Erica Upton in the front beside her when we collected her on a westerly detour . |
| 17 | ‘ I ca n't really answer that until we see what we find when we get him on the table . |
| 18 | I realize now that I should have fired him right then but I thought at the time that when we got him on the set he would be OK . |
| 19 | He was about to move on when something tapped him on the shoulder . |
| 20 | But this ruse failed , for the education journalists were not interested in the nice distinctions I offered them when they interviewed me on the phone . |
| 21 | ‘ I started to come round when they put me on the slab . |
| 22 | Clydebank make a practice of discomfiting clubs from the higher division when they meet them on the claustrophobic confines of their own pitch , as last season 's finalists , Airdrie , discovered when they were knocked out after a third-round replay . |
| 23 | But a financier : when he lays it on the line it 's going to be portraits of presidents cashable in solid US any place on the globe . |
| 24 | He had noticed the same man several times during the day , culminating about 5.40pm when he noticed him on the corner of Cross Street and Friar Street . |
| 25 | Returning to my first meeting with Vincent , Arthur Cheyney naturally became my hero , especially when he took me on a trip from Ipswich to Parkeston Quay , which completely sold me on the job and made me resolve to move heaven and earth to get on a cutter crew as soon as possible . |
| 26 | And Lloyd found , in a milieu still heavily influenced by the Communist Party , that he had little difficulty in outselling the Morning Star when he took it on the streets . |
| 27 | ‘ Agent Somerville , ’ he boomed when he heard her on the line , ‘ get after him . ’ |
| 28 | He once caught a pigeon , but it was mostly sparrows so small that , when he laid them on the embers to cook , they were ready by the time the feathers had singed and were hardly worth even sharing , except with the twins who insisted . |
| 29 | The closest we get together is when we dance and when he slaps me on the arse and that 's about it . |
| 30 | When he tickles her on the tummy for photographers , she bats his hand away . |