Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] [prep] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I walk on it the whole thing starts to move and I am soon covered in the grey dust I am stirring up ; it fills my nostrils and triggers a memory that links the smell with rock climbing . |
| 2 | When I came across it the other day , I was slightly embarrassed . |
| 3 | Even Terry Lewis hinted at it when I spoke to him the other evening . |
| 4 | At one house the door was jammed and when I pushed against it a body floated up weightlessly . |
| 5 | When I think of what the ‘ ideal ’ look is for a girl , I always imagine it as someone looking happy , and that is the one thing I know I do n't look . |
| 6 | How often when I think of you the day grows bright ! |
| 7 | When I look at what the new people in charge of Channel 3 are saying about Current Affairs , I am depressed . |
| 8 | Brand told me that they 'd been friendly from way back and when I leaned on him a bit he admitted that they 'd had a thing going but it had been broken off two or three years ago . ’ |
| 9 | No wonder they 're touchy when you pick on them the way you do . ’ |
| 10 | Masklin ran this sentence through his head again , in case it made any sense when you listened to it a second time . |
| 11 | ‘ People send you things that they think are exotic or bizarre , but when you listen to them a lot of them are just band copies of hits people just trying to sound like the Beatles . |
| 12 | but when you think of it the cost of the superintendent doing display work is enormous is n't it |
| 13 | When you think about it the ancient Greeks had some pretty good ideas . |
| 14 | When you think about it the Compact goals are just the sort of goals that every school has anyway . |
| 15 | When you think about it the two big problems are transport and communication |
| 16 | When you talk to me the way you do ? |
| 17 | but er , a lot of them got on the twelve six , you goes the twelve thirty one any way we waved to her when she got on it the coach you see was full at Bart Green , you got , at Redditch |
| 18 | For which she was very grateful when she thought of what the day ahead was likely to hold . |
| 19 | But when she thought about it an odd picture came into her head ; a picture of herself innocently lifting the lid of a box and letting out a dark , shapeless shadow … |
| 20 | And so when he talked to Polly now , and when she talked to him the way she did , it depressed him . |
| 21 | I found it interesting , however , that Maxine — or Martha — experienced no anxiety due to the nearness of the sea , even when she described to me a violent storm when giant waves lashed the walls of the seaside dwellings . |
| 22 | ‘ He said he would buy me a hat and I told him we 'd wait until they got the new 'uns in ; but when we come to it a week or two later he would n't spend his money . |
| 23 | When we look at what the centre of the political spectrum ( if we may so classify Liberals , SDP and Liberal Democrats ) mean by citizenship and its implications , we discover different emphases in its constituent parts from the Conservative formula . |
| 24 | We are told that the hermit was once sitting alone in his cell after dinner when there came to him the lady of the house … and many persons with her , and found him writing rapidly . |
| 25 | But the shed at the side of the road had been unlocked , and when he peered into it the outline of the covered carriage he had been able to make out in the darkness promised adequate protection and a degree of comfort . |
| 26 | John Lehmann had such confidence in Minton 's design sense that when he handed to him the typescript of Elizabeth David 's A Book of Mediterranean Food he gave him carte blanche to do as he liked with it . |