Example sentences of "when someone [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When someone advised him to do something , he worked on it and did it . ’ |
| 2 | When someone asks a government for bloodwealth , they not only threaten bloodshed if it is not forthcoming , but do so in an idiom which denies the government 's claim to superiority , puts it on an equal footing , treats it as just another tribe . |
| 3 | But what am I to do when someone asks me for everything I know on Lake Malawi Cichlids ( as happens fairly often ) . |
| 4 | It is to see whether , when someone pinches Rockall , we shall sail to replant the Union flag upon it , exclaiming ‘ Rejoice , rejoice , ’ as when we repossessed the likewise uninhabited South Georgia . |
| 5 | ‘ I was in a difficult situation when someone passed on the news Boro had won . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When someone remarked in surprise at the speed with which she had obtained her demobilisation , Teddy replied mildly in her soft voice , ‘ But I 'm married , dear ! ’ |
| 8 | So far we have looked at what happens when someone loses something significant . |
| 9 | ‘ When someone loses a packet , they just creep silently away . ’ |
| 10 | When someone protests at his callousness he says ‘ Would you rather my hand shook ? ’ . |
| 11 | She is like a mechanical musical doll that will perform a ponderous dance when someone turns the dial . |
| 12 | When someone discovered something , they had to explain it to the others , and this reinforced their own understanding . |
| 13 | He would watch the notices in the papers , and when someone died and the widow was left alone , he would go there and think up some sort of lie — he lied always , as a boy , even when there was no need , and he looked so clean and innocent that if you did not know him you would believe him , every time . |
| 14 | When someone died , the administrator collected all assets of the deceased and paid his outstanding debts . |
| 15 | Suicide , when someone decides to take their own life by one means or another , rather than waiting to die through illness or accident , is not the same as euthanasia which may be defined as assisted death and which is a subject beyond the scope of this book . |
| 16 | When someone decides to take offence and be uncooperative during a show it can have a nasty effect on the atmosphere . |
| 17 | Joe Mahoney hit on his new career when someone told him he looked like the wartime leader . |
| 18 | When someone told Joe Mahoney he looked like Winston he took it very seriously . |
| 19 | They were outside Mrs Fletcher 's cottage when someone began shouting at them . |
| 20 | There was a lot of laughter , not the least when someone asked the whereabouts of Alan and Joy , and I said that Alan had gone to be induced ! |
| 21 | Angie Mellor , a Hygiene consultant from West Hoathly , was carrying out a survey at Broadmoor when someone asked ‘ What are you doing then ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Apparently after Naylor had spent hours checking around my old haunts without success , he finally got lucky when someone recalled having many times seen my car parked outside this block of flats . |
| 23 | That 's supposed to be a trick when someone attacks you , if they attack you from behind you 're supposed to walk backwards . |
| 24 | Thus when someone hears of the death of someone they are close to the reaction is , ‘ But it ca n't be true . ’ |
| 25 | When someone hears the national team news , could they e-mail me or mail the list , as r.s.s is increasingly poor at giving information like this . |
| 26 | When someone talks to us , we receive as much as over two-thirds of the information through tone of voice and body language . |
| 27 | But when someone talks to you loud like I just did the microphone seems to stop . |
| 28 | Scientists , on both sides of no-man 's land , become bitterly indignant when someone points such external influences out to them . |
| 29 | When someone points out that other people can do x , y and z , we reply ‘ Yes , but they 're different ! ’ |
| 30 | WHEN SOMEONE CALLS |