Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] a [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the rime when everyone had a siesta and for a few hours the village was virtually dead . |
| 2 | When I conduct a symphony or make a film , I have the impression of the complete work in my mind . |
| 3 | It was even better when I got a hug and a kiss from the former Miss Minnesota ! |
| 4 | When I saw a fire and capering figures , I ran down again . |
| 5 | I did put it on , when I had a drink and then I took it off again |
| 6 | But people complain sometimes about the flushes , but I was glad when I had a flush because I felt better after having flushes ! |
| 7 | When I had a lock that was sticking what did I blow What powder I did I blow into the lock to make it work better ? |
| 8 | I , I was in when I had a hysterectomy and , but I think I was so ill I was glad really that erm I was on my own then . |
| 9 | When I had a caravan and he was alive we was living in woods . |
| 10 | And there have been days I 'd have liked her at home when I had a headache or one of the nuns had roared at me at school . |
| 11 | When I wrote a line or two of Lover at the Gate I felt at ease , buoyantly happy , confident . |
| 12 | WHEN I told a colleague that an artist wanted to paint my portrait , his reaction was one of thinly veiled envy . |
| 13 | Q I would like to be able to make a neckline that looks neat , so that when I do a neckband and fold it to the inside , the actual neckline looks good . |
| 14 | When I read a book or saw a play or studied a synopsis , there came into my mental vision a fairly detailed and consecutive pattern of what the film would be like . |
| 15 | When someone eats a snack while mentally absorbed in other things — perhaps a mother grabbing her own meal in between attempts to coax food down a baby , or a viewer eating a TV snack while totally involved in the latest beastly plots of ‘ J.R . ’ |
| 16 | When someone gets a virus and becomes ill , the helper cells kill off the virus and usually they get better . |
| 17 | On the other hand , there may be moments of real illumination and discovery , when someone makes a comment that springs from a quite different frame of reference from one 's own . |
| 18 | So when you get a bruise that 's a nice yellow colour , yellowy-green , you know it 's a very old bruise . |
| 19 | The fun starts when you control a team and call all necessary plays , which in my first try resulted in my team performing worse than an infants rounders team against the superbowl winners . |
| 20 | Er , if you create a file linking formulae in One Two Three Release Two , erm , when you retrieve a file that contains the file with the formulae , er , does it update the file links , as you retrieve it ? |
| 21 | When you tell a story or describe an experience the children should illustrate , you must be careful to give a suitable subject . |
| 22 | Dusk gathers about you like a coat when you climb a fence and reach a road . |
| 23 | But when you lift a corpse that looks anything but a corpse , it 's terrifying . |
| 24 | Like when you write a letter and you read it through and you think , Ooh I 've missed a word out here , |
| 25 | When you write a formula that refers a cell on another page , the page name appears in the formula , making it easier to see what you 're referencing . |
| 26 | And , unlike the PC system which dominates the industry , all the peripherals work together , there is no clashing of interrupts when you add a scanner or a large screen . |
| 27 | When you add a table or graphic to your document , the text does n't run around it , but goes underneath . |
| 28 | He said : ‘ It 's not nice to have threats and letters as I have had when you have a wife and family , and kids at school . |
| 29 | When you have a course that works , you do n't sit back and watch the grass grow — you set to work to make it even better . |
| 30 | Write when you have a chance and I will too , if you pass through Toronto look us up . |