Example sentences of "[noun pl] when [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We talked about how fast you can make a 1.1 MkII Escort run when it 's only firing on three cylinders and how to make it run on three cylinders when it wants to run on just two . |
| 2 | We may speculate that GPs may become less willing to maintain the very elderly on their lists when they have to provide care within a specified cash-limited budget . |
| 3 | Therefore the EC central banks made arrangements to sell the stronger currencies when they threatened to break through the snake ceiling and to buy the weaker currencies when they seemed likely to fall through the snake floor . |
| 4 | Sometimes amateurs wrap wood in hot wet rags when they want to bend it . |
| 5 | They have become a prime target for teenage joyriders who often set fire to stolen cars when they have finished with them . |
| 6 | Mother used to make a big meal to feed the beaters when they came to unload and help pack the grouse , but the food for the gentry was taken to the moor in large hampers . |
| 7 | On Harry 's first day at play school , his mum was about to take him along to meet all the other kids when it started snowing outside . |
| 8 | But of course , had Alexander 's argument and Lewis 's interpretation of it been irrefutable , had it been the kind of thing which compelled religious certainty , then all the philosophers in Oxford would have fallen to their knees when they had finished reading it . |
| 9 | ‘ And if you keep both feet in you 've more chance of dropping back into the chair on your knees when it tries to flip , ready for it to whip back the other way , ’ says Birchall . |
| 10 | When she stopped speaking his feeling of animosity towards her seeped from him , and the pity that he always felt for her again rose to the surface and for a moment he himself knew the extent of her frustration and the reason behind her furious tantrums when she had known his uncle was going to marry again . |
| 11 | It seems reasonable to infer from the above that numerous corporate executives , having already responded to the situational demands necessary for career mobility within an organization by displaying sufficient degrees of competitive ambition , shrewdness , and moral flexibility will experience a further development of these characteristics when they have to respond to the relatively unaccountable and unconstrained power of being at or near the top of a large national , but especially transnational corporation . |
| 12 | Twice she made the kind of excuse that people made at cocktail parties when they wanted to extricate themselves from a conversation and move on to talk with another guest , but five minutes later he was back at her side again , bending closer and closer towards her so that she became unpleasantly aware of the stale , alcoholic aura of his breath . |
| 13 | I just could n't believe my ears when you started saying tenner , tenner will win the league ! |
| 14 | Well , doubt is something that strikes drivers when they have reached , and imperceptibly slipped past , the apex of their careers . |
| 15 | Well those are the ones that Matthew we should n't have bought you new trainers when you 'd got these . |
| 16 | The leaflet will highlight issues which can be raised with parliamentary candidates when they coming knocking on doors , and will suggest some questions to ask . |
| 17 | Placing her mouth over his , she murmured teasingly , running her fingers along the nape of his neck , watching his face so she could smile into those magnificent green eyes when they opened to gaze on her . |
| 18 | Because the blinkers had finally fallen from her eyes when he had asked her if it could be worse . |
| 19 | He thought of how she who lay beside him had locked in her heart for so many years that image of her lover 's eyes when he had told her that he did not wish to love . |
| 20 | There were tears in his eyes when he crouched to gather up the debris , scooping it into a pile with both hands while Sweetheart roared with laughter . |
| 21 | I 'm gon na do the eyes when it 's finished because the white went all splodgy cos I could n't get the brush in even though I had a tiny brush . |
| 22 | ‘ Now , ’ Alexandra said to the hens when he had gone , ‘ come with me and I will show you where you will sleep . ’ |
| 23 | Producer Peter Waterman once had to rescue his starlet from a gang of teenagers when they began spitting at her in a nightclub . |
| 24 | ‘ Rave ’ is now a dirty word , ‘ Manchester ’ is best forgotten , and as for the Mondays , how daft must it feel to be a rebel role model for spotty teenagers when you 've got kids yourself ? |
| 25 | You 've learned there 's no hope with one-night standers , so simply say thanks for the meal , but no thanks when they start asking for the afters . |
| 26 | The next logical step was to present the bream with a small hook and bait which would be more likely to be right inside their lips when they began to carry it off , but to still retain the heaviness so that they could not manage it with a mere suck . |
| 27 | Remember that you are not only burning up calories while you walk , but your increased metabolic rate will keep burning up calories when you finish walking . |
| 28 | Over the past week you have been walking away a minimum of 300 calories a day during your walk , and your increased metabolic rate will have been burning up another few hundred calories when you have finished walking . |
| 29 | Nobody in court can see them , but everyone hears their voices when they come to testify . |
| 30 | Discriminatory and punitive rates , like Mr Smith 's 59 per cent , not only put many of the most agile brains in the country to work to find ways of avoiding them but create a profound disinclination to work harder or take risks when you have to give nearly 60 per cent of it to the Government . |