Example sentences of "[noun] when [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the undercard on Thursday Darlington welterweight Charlie Moore will have his third professional contest when he meets Alfreton 's Joe Corcoran . |
| 2 | ‘ It is unnatural , ’ said the Sheikha when we met some months later . |
| 3 | They were looking for food , of course , and would suddenly plunge downwards at lightning speed when they spotted something . |
| 4 | For a big man , he could move with surprising speed when he wanted to . |
| 5 | The auto gearbox refuses to take the revcounter needle anywhere near the red line ( and that 's set only at 4500rpm ) , which means the chances of kicking down into a lower gear are limited , making A-road overtaking manoeuvres more ponderous than they should be and knocking a substantial hole in the cruising speed when you meet a hill . |
| 6 | You can sense the interdependence of words when they change their significance according to the words around them . |
| 7 | Blake noticed that people used more than words when they communicated with each other , and realised that horses did the same . |
| 8 | Subjects spent longer reading words when they occurred at the end of a clause or a sentence . |
| 9 | His words when we met at the start of the Championship kept coming back : ‘ Willie , I 'm going to win the Open for you this week . |
| 10 | Now I was conscious of Aisha 's words when we stood together in the storeroom and she tried to dissuade me from going to London : ‘ Go alone to London without an aunt or a husband or your mother and they 'll say you 've sold your soul . |
| 11 | I mean , I am not playing with words when I say this , but it wo n't improve as fast as we would have liked it to do because of the financial situation . |
| 12 | The LVF advantage at the shortest duration implies that the right hemisphere may recognise genuine words when it sees them , even though it can not necessarily identify them , which suggests that in this respect the right half of the brain is not inferior to the left . |
| 13 | Strong words when you consider the market in cholesterol-lowering drugs has expanded by 34.4 per cent a year for the last five years . |
| 14 | THE Duchess of York yesterday left cancer-stricken Polish children lost for words when she handed out copies of her Budgie books in English . |
| 15 | He started gawking at the people in the stands when he came into the stretch . |
| 16 | Usually when he was giving one of his little dinners he came into the kitchen while they were preparing it , joked with them , had his hands smacked smartly by Matey when he lifted saucepan lids and tried to peer into the oven ; but today he stayed away . |
| 17 | ‘ You look like Marie when you do that . ’ |
| 18 | Neighbours also provided a missing ingredient in our diet of soaps when it became a five-times- a-week fixture back in 1988 . |
| 19 | I suspect that I am not the only hon. Member in the Chamber with a sense of de ja vu when we debate European affairs . |
| 20 | She caught Urquhart 's glance when she looked up , a musing and erotic stare that swerved away . |
| 21 | ‘ Early statements of the model ( e.g. , Marslen-Wilson & Welsh ( 1978 ) ) assert that candidates drop out of the pool of word-candidates when they do not fit the specifications of context , in the same way as when they do not fit the accumulating sensory input . |
| 22 | ‘ I was caught at Dunkirk when they thought they 'd won the bloody war . |
| 23 | They were well clear of Dunkirk when he said : ‘ Do n't these people have any phone boxes ? ’ |
| 24 | The Tory government contributed to proliferation when it permitted the supply of nuclear weapons material to Saddam Hussein . |
| 25 | This is surely a babyhood memory , slightly corrupted , of seeing the word ‘ toilets ’ reflected fleetingly in my nurse 's spectacles when we travelled from London to Dover to sail for the continent . |
| 26 | So you can hardly expect me to share your rose-tinted spectacles when it comes to marriage . ’ |
| 27 | My last boss used to fumble under my skirt when I took dictation . |
| 28 | ‘ Nothing in this marvellous list ’ says Milton ‘ was as fine as Eden ’ and of course it hurts him to say it , and I do n't think it 's far fetched to detect that hurt and pain of that great sacrifice that John Milton is making in the rhythm when we read ‘ Might with this paradise of Eden strive ’ , or in the fact that he ca n't stop there , because I did n't — as you will have realized from Bentley 's comment — I did n't read you the whole passage . |
| 29 | The new fifth television channel , wherever it is situated , will open up further opportunities for programme-makers when it starts up at the end of 1993 . |
| 30 | She publicly commented on the rift when she spoke to newspaper columnist Jean Rook : ‘ I 'm absolutely sick of the ‘ Wicked Stepmother ’ lark . |