Example sentences of "[det] when [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Wright bothers did this when they developed the first operational airplane . |
| 2 | There were two problems , the youngest children 's reading was n't good enough to manage the menu and most were too short to actually see over the tops of the containers on the heated cabinet to make their choice , because of this when they reached the counter they asked to have the same as the child in front making a nonsense of the notion of choice . |
| 3 | This is traditional children 's Christmas holiday fare and those of you with sprogs still naive enough to appreciate it could do worse than plonk them in front of this when they start the equally traditional post-present grizzling . |
| 4 | We shall see this when we use the Fancy Patterns in a moment . |
| 5 | Sometimes the legislature does this when it imposes the duty by couching the duty in very clear , concrete , and specific terms . |
| 6 | You will let me know of course if you think it better to discontinue this when I start the new treatment . |
| 7 | Later in the year , after the Murray Scrubs expedition , Gould was to find evidence to support this when he explored the Namoi River district in New South Wales . |
| 8 | Davis , himself , paved the way for this when he admitted the existence of arid and glacial cycles of erosion . |
| 9 | Iain MacPherson was spared this when he failed the common entrance examination for Merchant Taylors . |
| 10 | Former Social Security Secretary Patrick Jenkin alluded to this when he cut the benefit to which homeless men were entitled on the grounds that people would be aggrieved by these itinerants getting " more actual cash in hand by being homeless ( sometimes by choice ) than by contributing toward the cost of a household and accepting the attendant responsibilities . |
| 11 | The consequence of excommunication for Jacob was economic isolation : he was forced to give up his trade ( also shoemaking ) and was given redress for this when he petitioned the Long Parliament in 1640 . |
| 12 | ‘ It was like this when he won the Queen Elizabeth last year so I wo n't mind if it keeps pouring down for him or Lochsong , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Her eyes keep going like this when she heard the noise . |
| 14 | I 'm afraid we 're just going to have to weather this for a while , and gloat twice as much when we turn the tables . |
| 15 | Governments only try to do too much when they trust the people too little . |
| 16 | Marx recognised as much when he interposed the " period of manufacture " between that of guild manufacture and that of " machino-facture " : " Inasmuch as handicraft skill formed the basis of manufacture and inasmuch as the integral mechanism which was at work in manufacture had no objective skeleton existing apart from the workers themselves , capital had continually to wrestle with the subordination of the workers . " |
| 17 | They these when I remember the garage , it was a series of er lock up garages in the front , with a central one opening right through to the back . |
| 18 | Indeed the kinds of arguments that are mustered ( Jesus did not ordain women and that is a fact , the church has not ordained women and that is a fact , women in all societies have been subordinate to men and that is a fact ) become no arguments at all when we realize the context in which Jesus did what he did , when we know that the biological views on which Thomas Aquinas ' views were founded were false , and live in a world in which ( in our western societies at least ) women are coming to take their place as the equals of men . |
| 19 | She is frightened of some noises — like the vacuum cleaner — but does n't bother at all when I use the lawnmower or hedge-cutter . |
| 20 | I noticed that even the adults showed no ill effects at all when I moved the odd battered brother or post-spawning female to recoup in a low pH growing-on tank . |
| 21 | Same when you visited the cinemas and dance-halls , watching the dancing . |
| 22 | what , oh , erm , there 's something I 've just thought of though , when they wear the er camouflage things , is that when they wear the maroon belt round ? , is n't the kaki belt with the dress uniform ? |
| 23 | Eight-year-olds were beginning to acknowledge the distinction , in that when they used the causal connectives in the deductive mode they appropriately followed because with evidence and so with a conclusion . |
| 24 | They 've taken his dabs and examined the mallet , but we left it at that when we knew the Yard had been called in and you were on your way . |
| 25 | That when one approaches the village , in particular along the A Nineteen , which is the only public approach from the north , the objection sites read as part of the village and not part of the countryside . |
| 26 | ‘ It did n't seem to look like that when I had the fitting . ’ |
| 27 | That when I see the man who armoured stood |
| 28 | Those who now come to read Russian at Nottingham do so in a world much changed from that when I entered the Department twenty years ago . |
| 29 | So erm , was that when you joined the branch first of all ? |
| 30 | Just as the Prime Minister , or whoever briefed him , will be doing a few months after that when he tells the House that the report that Summerchild was working on was the comparability study which has since been published . |