Example sentences of "[vb -s] when [indef pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difficulty starts when one tries to say exactly what is the relationship between everyday life and the structure of society . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , I think it 's a very good idea , ’ she says , ‘ because one frowns when one concentrates , and it becomes habitual ; so if one is reminded about it , it helps . |
| 3 | So , wrote Harsnet , there is continuity as well as discontinuity , but that does not mean , he wrote , that there exists what is called character , personality , character , Goldberg wrote in the margin , personality , as they seem to think , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg went on typing ) , when they say you have such a generous character if you would only recognize it , or you have so much to offer , or it is not for myself I speak but for you , not for myself I mourn but for the waste of all that generosity , when they pour those words over you , character , generosity , warmth , looking sad , shedding tears , putting on a brave face , saying do n't pay any attention to me , or , it 's nothing , forget it , I 'm crying for the waste , meaning waste if it 's not directed towards them , but you have only to see what happens when one lets oneself be persuaded by that sort of thing , wrote Harsnet , you have only to see what happened to Hutchinson , MacMahon , Rollins and Goldberg . |
| 4 | This is a bit like what happens when one fires a rocket upward from the surface of the earth . |
| 5 | We should consider what happens when one moving body comes into contact with another : ‘ what way , and with what swiftness , the invaded body shall move ; and , again , what motion this second body will generate in a third . ’ |
| 6 | Wordsworth 's tragedy , The Borderers , shows what happens when one trusts to reason rather than the feelings . |
| 7 | I had not , of course , realized this happens when one puts so much effort into working out answers to complicated problems . |
| 8 | One may also consider what happens when one leaves the ordered window on the other side . |
| 9 | But what happens when one tries to get it stopped ? |
| 10 | which often looks quite nice so that even if what you 've found does n't quite match up with what they 've found you can say well look you know these theories , ideas are need enriching , they 're a bit inadequate as they stand because what happens when somebody tells you this , what happens when somebody says this erm you know we can , we can revise them in the following way |
| 11 | which often looks quite nice so that even if what you 've found does n't quite match up with what they 've found you can say well look you know these theories , ideas are need enriching , they 're a bit inadequate as they stand because what happens when somebody tells you this , what happens when somebody says this erm you know we can , we can revise them in the following way |
| 12 | I am not averse to packs of information on what happens when someone goes into prison . |
| 13 | So far we have looked at what happens when someone loses something significant . |
| 14 | What happens when someone dies . |
| 15 | WHAT HAPPENS WHEN SOMEONE DIES |
| 16 | ‘ Andre has done a tremendous job , explaining in great detail what happens when someone dies and when they are cremated . |
| 17 | And that is about what happens when someone leaves a job of their own accord . |
| 18 | So what happens when someone leaves a job of their own accord , what happens to their unemployment benefit . |
| 19 | The country houses decay and fall : hardly a week passes when one does not see the auctioneer 's notice of the impending sale and dissolution of some big estate . |
| 20 | Individual deterrence occurs when someone commits a crime , is punished for it , and finds the punishment so unpleasant or frightening that the offence is never repeated for fear of more of the same or worse . |
| 21 | The game ends when everyone finds the hiding place . |
| 22 | To see this double image as joined to a symbol of the grave ‘ that linked one Vincent to the other ’ is not as far-fetched as it appears when one sees the multiplicity of twinned and fused pairs appearing later : pairs of cottages , trees , and chairs , as well as of people on roads or seated at tables , overlapping or merged or shadowed . |
| 23 | The tail was just a stump with a few feathers beginning to show through , rather like the beard stubble that appears when someone has n't shaved fur a couple of days . |
| 24 | For the recording , we reseated the orchestra for each variation to create the acoustic that one sees and imagines when one looks at the score . |
| 25 | So the apparently boundless diversity of plant life disappears when one recalls that all plants are composed of carbon , hydrogen , oxygen , nitrogen and a few less important elements , and that chemically there is little difference between a daisy and an oak tree . |
| 26 | What one means when one calls something ‘ white ’ , according to Mill , is that one 's present sensation resembles a past one . |
| 27 | Others say that the resemblance one notices is between sensations , and that what one means when one says something is white is that a sensation one has on looking at it resembles a sensation one has had before and to which one gave the name ‘ sensation of white ’ . |
| 28 | The problem comes when one tries to link such words with actual available historical tempo measurements , for the results are often quite obviously and inconveniently in conflict with each other and with many present-day assumptions . |
| 29 | The fascination of the piece comes when one starts to compare positive and negative , or outside to inside . |
| 30 | If the situation is basically stable , the drama then begins when something occurs which has the potential to destabilise it . |