Example sentences of "when [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will appear mechanical , when plucked out of the huge and vital narrative flow , that Dostoevsky has given him ‘ a sickly dark yellow complexion ’ as a mark of his belonging to Petersburg . |
| 2 | Uncle Ernie was apparently not finished when crashing out at the last fence , and at the line Remittance Man had only seven lengths to spare over handicapper Emsee-H . |
| 3 | It is not always possible to give adequate thought to the future when caught up in the day-to-day running of an operation , but if you live the business , as Sir Hector unashamedly does , there are always less hectic times to mull over major issues . |
| 4 | The overwhelmed sensation any understudy had when picked out of the chorus line to take over the leading role , the star having suddenly collapsed . |
| 5 | The symmetry of any property of a molecule may be determined by seeing how it behaves when operated on by the various symmetry elements that make up the overall symmetry point group of the molecule ( see Appendix ) . |
| 6 | One must mind one 's manners ( and one 's metaphors — tarring with brushes , for instance ! ) when venturing on to the territory that Pound opens up with his reflections on the ethnic mix of the American population , and the distinction that he makes between the older stock ( Eliots and Pounds ) and the relative late-come immigrants ( Williams 's stock on both sides ) . |
| 7 | Even when made up with the finest cosmetics money could buy it would never be beautiful , but still … not bad for an ugly duckling , Sally thought , smiling wryly . |
| 8 | An unopened pod taken from the tree will keep for at least three weeks , and when opened back at the nursery it is usual to obtain 100 per cent germination of the seed . |
| 9 | Thus the goods will normally be unconditionally appropriated when handed over to the carrier . |
| 10 | He had long ago noticed that if you stared at a customs officer when going out through the green channel , the customs officer stopped you . |
| 11 | PC Robinson advised owners to cover up the digital light of the video recorder when going out during the evening . |
| 12 | You no longer signal when you 're pulling out to overtake , ( unless to warn fast-approaching traffic behind you ) ; nor do you signal right when pulling out from the kerb . |
| 13 | Much of what we saw related discouragingly to familiar bad habits , a thought that occurred , not for the first time , to George Cohen , who for the benefit of younger readers made a notable contribution to the history of English football when turning out in the 1966 World Cup final . |
| 14 | They do n't have a set style : sometimes a touch funky when plunked along by the bass ; sometimes rather laid back and mellow when the languid guitar takes over . |
| 15 | When zooming in for the kill , or performing a lightning strike , they ignore the tail end of the body and aim straight for the eyes . |
| 16 | If you use an equaliser during your video editing sessions , carefully check the effect of each adjustment as you go , by monitoring the sound over a loudspeaker ( headphones may not give a true impression of how the tone corrections will sound when played back in the normal way ) . |
| 17 | The words sounded hollow when played back in the emptiness of the flat , like an extract from a vacuous , romantic novel . |
| 18 | Once waste is solidified , it is much less dangerous than it is when blowing about in the air or dissolved in water . |
| 19 | Hood : a generous hood which unfortunately bunched up when pulled in by the drawcord . |
| 20 | The company claimed that under the then rules this was only taxable ( the interest and dividends ) when brought back to the United Kingdom . |
| 21 | One of the first things to catch the visitor 's eye when starting down from the castle esplanade is a cannonball lodged in the wall of a house , believed to have been fired from the castle at Holyroodhouse in 1745 when anti-Jacobite forces on the Castle Rock were at odds with Prince Charles Edward at the lower end of the town . |
| 22 | When starting out in the aircraft spares business , twenty Tiger Moth wings were acquired , which after a period in storage were deemed to be taking up too much space , so reluctantly they were taken out into the back yard and burnt . |
| 23 | It contained relics , and when melted down in the twelfth century yielded 500 marks of silver and thirty of gold . |
| 24 | They panic when driven out into the open and their first thought is to find cover as quickly as they can . |
| 25 | One farmer was killed when his tractor overturned ; another died when run over by the vehicle ; a third was crushed when the uncabbed tractor he was driving overturned ; and a fourth , a student home on holiday , died when thrown from the cab of his overturning vehicle . |
| 26 | The ones shown are only the simplest ; each winds only once around the z-axis when projected on to the x-y plane . |
| 27 | A cohort of children , originally seen aged 2 to 4 with severe effusions and mostly treated with grommets , had structural damage of the eardrum ( 87% of cases ) , abnormal tympanograms ( 45% ) , and a mean hearing loss of 13 dB when followed up at the age of 8 . |
| 28 | Seeing value in activities only in so far as we can conceive them retaining it when cut off from the main tides of human affairs , leads to a kind of preciosity and detachment from what excites most human beings which is ultimately impoverishing . |
| 29 | However , after 5 April — when the value of the tax credit falls to 20 per cent — this £75 when grossed up inside the PEP will be worth just £93.75 to the basic rate taxpayer . |
| 30 | Although they will grow on successfully when put out into the garden in spring or summer , the flowers you get in future years may well turn pink if you are not on an acid soil . |