Example sentences of "[to-vb] when [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They disobeyed instructions by continuing to work when they had failed to do this . |
| 2 | As I have never been in the habit of working at my easel every morning from 8 am , I only feel inclined to work when something stirs me in some way . |
| 3 | He was just cursing the child lock which his sweating , trembling hands were unable to work when he noticed the girl jockey walking towards his car . |
| 4 | gives him an overdraft facility of so much money enable him to work when he moved , and they reneged on it ! |
| 5 | No , Olive that used to work when I worked for Laura Ashley 's |
| 6 | ‘ Who wants to work when you 've been offered a holiday ? ’ she asked . |
| 7 | It 's important to work when you feel in the mood . ’ |
| 8 | You do n't know who you 're going to meet when you get outside . |
| 9 | Hardly how she wanted to appear when she 'd planned on wearing the dress to visit the hotels she wanted to do business with . |
| 10 | They began to imitate him — the 28-year-old man is very conscious of his 6ft 3in and tends to stoop when he walks . |
| 11 | I went to talk to RELATE when I had problems with my own marriage . |
| 12 | However , on Oct. 24 Democrats in the House appeared willing to compromise when they abandoned their demands for the inclusion of surtax , in favour of phasing out personal tax exemptions for those with incomes in excess of $100,000 . |
| 13 | ‘ Do n't you think , in the circumstances … perhaps if you were to write when you get home … |
| 14 | THIS is the book which Peter Mayle planned to write when he went to live in France . |
| 15 | Bob knocked back his coffee , and I was about to stand when he said , ‘ Listen , Alex , I do n't know if I should say this to a poet , but there are some things a damn sight more urgent than the doggerel of a dead country squire . |
| 16 | Only then will they win the middle ground , and only then will they give their policies a chance to persist when they have moved out of office . |
| 17 | A much quoted observation by one grand old man of German science policy , Professor Heinz Maier Leibnitz , points out that German researchers who have done well in stints in the US tend to stagnate when they return to the German system . |
| 18 | Any vestige of friendship Grassi might have retained was to disappear when he saw a letter from Florence claiming that the Jesuits would be powerless to answer Galileo 's arguments . |
| 19 | Ruth knew he was looking at the glint of Caer Wydyr , which even at this range was difficult to focus on ; like something seen in the corner of the eye , it seemed to disappear when you turned to look . |
| 20 | Only the doctor who attended the last illness is required to certify when someone dies in the hospital and a post mortem has been carried out and the results known to the doctor . |
| 21 | They began to scream when they saw me , and their mother fainted . |
| 22 | She was therefore a little disconcerted to find when they left the station that instead of waiting for a taxi Lady Selvedge began to stride away in the direction of Victoria Street , saying ‘ I know just the place for us to get a snack . |
| 23 | The more it rains , the fuller the stream will get and the bigger the problem , so really , time is the most important factor , especially as we do n't really know what we 're going to find when we get down there . ’ |
| 24 | I wrote a note to Leon , left it on the hall table for him to find when he came down at God knows what time , and went into breakfast . |
| 25 | At first he thought he 'd been burgled , but he was astonished to find when he called the police that they 'd done it . |
| 26 | There is another leitmotif in this funny , happy ballet , the precious red umbrella , Alain 's only love — or so it would seem — for it is the one thing he clings to and simply has to find when he has lost Lise . |
| 27 | We will now examine the commonest and most important kinds of fossils , the kinds that the reader will be able to find when he starts a collection . |
| 28 | I wonder what you expect to find when you get there ? |
| 29 | It could n't be left there for the old lady to find when she came down to breakfast . |
| 30 | While I was afflicted with serious English composition and English literature , I was reading Scott , Fenimore Cooper , Henty , and the travellers , because I loved them ; I was also thinking and talking in a manner which owed little to those dignified exercises , though the day was to come when I spoke very much as I wrote … |