Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That all stopped when I got a back injury at school . |
| 2 | When I knit a stocking stitch tension square , instead of marking the 21st stitch on each side of centre 0 on the 30th row , I transfer these stitches at the beginning of the swatch , placing them on to needle number 22 on each side and pushing the empty 21st needles to non-working position . |
| 3 | ‘ Once I was driving up High Street East in Sunderland with a local priest when I saw a furniture van ahead with its ramp down . |
| 4 | Hall reported : ’ … when I saw a vapour trail and warned my Section Leader who manoeuvred for position , scanning the sky for enemy fighters . |
| 5 | The officer 's evidence will probably be in the following terms : ‘ I had a good view of the zebra crossing when I saw a pedestrian step on to the crossing limits from the footpath outside the Town Hall and walk about one third of the way across the crossing when the defendant drove in front of the pedestrian etc . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Centurion Coins ’ is the name I traded under when I had a coin shop at Wimborne for ten years , and subsequently premises at Christchurch for two years . |
| 7 | To speak personally , I might have found life easier , though possibly less interesting , if the English synthesis had continued to exist in approximately the same state as when I became a university teacher at the end of the 1950s : a genuine humane discipline , self-respecting , enjoyable , expanding , with methods that were established and familiar , if subject to variation between the different emphases associated with Oxford and Cambridge . |
| 8 | When I became a freelance writer in 1989 , I finally found a career which could accommodate wanderlust . |
| 9 | Ronald Duncan , whom I came to know about this time ( our first meeting took place when I made a bicycle tour of Cornwall in the summer of 1947 ) , spoke of having received a telegram from Eliot cancelling an engagement and saying that he had to ‘ bury a woman ’ . |
| 10 | When I made a television documentary that concluded that there was no evidence for nuclear fusion products , I received a letter from Martin Fleischmann alleging that there was a warrant issued in Utah for the arrest of the film crew , accusing me of having gained ‘ illegal access to the National Cold Fusion Institute ’ and of being a media person masquerading as a scientist . |
| 11 | But when I criticise a tremolo system for being awkward to change strings on , or a truss rod for being inaccessible , it 's because I change my own strings and adjust my own truss rod . |
| 12 | When I say a company house I mean a house that was owned by the colliery , newly built with a bathroom . |
| 13 | When I set myself to search this site , my first little breakthrough came when I uncovered a bronze coin weight ; this was in very poor condition but I was able to make out that it was 17th century in date . |
| 14 | They ask me , Is that your writing ? and it is of course it is those are Despot control codes from when the computer 's mouse was misbehaving and that 's the way I always spell when I do a shopping list . |
| 15 | There was a moment later when I found a willow leaf stuck to her still-moist haunches . |
| 16 | When I search a farmland site I always keep careful records , and looking back to my notes I started to search the areas where there had been the greatest concentration of finds . |
| 17 | Unit Trusts are becoming an increasingly popular form of investment and as a High Interest Cheque Account holder you are entitled to a 1% bonus allocation when you make a lump sum purchase of £500 or more of Midland Unit Trusts . |
| 18 | It 's all plain sailing when you take a COSMOS break to EURO DISNEYLAND . |
| 19 | Now when you pick a paw pear before prickling when you pick a pawpaw for a prickly pear and you pick the wrong pear next time beware ! |
| 20 | When you support a football team , misery is the only currency that can purchase real ecstasy |
| 21 | I do n't recall the good times I 've had at Wembley with anything like the same frequency — not just because there have n't been as many of them ( my personal Wembley record is played ten , won two , lost eight ) , but because when you support a football team , misery is the only currency that can purchase real ecstasy . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , when you use a vibrato bar guitar , when you hit the strings really hard , a lot of the vibration gets transferred to the springs and back into the bar in a sort of flutter and I really do n't like that sound at all . |
| 23 | For example , when you use a flight simulator , the map of the world over which you fly is often stored as a separate data file . |
| 24 | When you use a hand cream , massage it into your nails , too . |
| 25 | When you become a Croner subscriber , we make you a promise . |
| 26 | As with traumatic stress , the sort that can happen when you witness a bomb explosion or serious accident . |
| 27 | This is important when you throw a roundhouse kick and the supporting foot is prevented from swivelling . |
| 28 | You feel guilty when you scoff a sherry trifle ; you feel virtuous when you grill a piece of white fish . |
| 29 | When you have a sex change operation in the eyes of the law you stay the sex you were born . |
| 30 | Even when you have a rib transfer carriage , you will still need to transfer a stitch by hand sometimes ; this is much easier if you 've done it so often that it 's automatic . |