Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb -s] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes the recogniser gives no candidate letter when nothing matches in the Freeman vector database ( section 3.4.1 and section 5.2.6 ) , and in such situations a ‘ wild card ’ algorithm is implemented to attempt to fill such blank letter positions ( shown as * below ) by searching in the word look-up tree . |
| 2 | My mother I remember there was a sale of work going on at Palfrey church once and bef I had just been made apprentice at Wolverhampton and of course I got amongst the , they , when they came the , the Derby day they were all having a bet on it so I , I said to the give them half a crown , so he said you ca n't have half a crown and he said what do you want it for so I said they 're putting it on a horse was on this horse it won , so of course this sale of work was in great progress when I gets off the train at station and thought well I could n't understand in er Palfrey Church Hall , so she was there in all her finery and I said we 've won , we 've won she said shut up , shut up she said but erm no I think the biggest character in Caldmore was Father . |
| 3 | I was just takin' off my apron in the smithy when I says to the guv'nor : |
| 4 | Thus when someone hears of the death of someone they are close to the reaction is , ‘ But it ca n't be true . ’ |
| 5 | If anybody sneezes all hell breaks loose , she 's petrified of traffic and when someone comes into the house she sits on the bed and shakes . |
| 6 | Only the doctor who attended the last illness is required to certify when someone dies in the hospital and a post mortem has been carried out and the results known to the doctor . |
| 7 | Well no , voting is when somebody goes to the polling booth they have to weigh all the pro 's and cons of all the information that they 've been told . |
| 8 | During this time the egg passes along her oviduct ( egg-laying tube ) so that it is ready for immediate extrusion when she arrives at the nest . |
| 9 | Only when she fumbles with the tiny metal flap of my zip does my mind shake back to the present . |
| 10 | And that brings us to the end of another fun half hour — tomorrow Katie Wood will be showing us how the other half relax when she mixes with the toffs on a country house weekend near John O'Groats . |
| 11 | ‘ I hope I 'm not around when she learns about the alterations to the house . |
| 12 | You have to accept the fact that she will not be feeling she has too much to be grateful about , when she ruminates on the loss of her home and some of her previous complete independence . |
| 13 | Lady Macbeth provides Macbeth with the determination he requires when she hears of the witches prophesy and her husband 's title of ‘ Thane of Cawdor ’ , she immediately begins planning Duncan 's murder . |
| 14 | This introduces several movements seen later in more solemn form when she dances with the prince at the ball . |
| 15 | After winning the love of Claire 's daughter and the respect of her husband Mike ( Matt McCoy ) , Peyton begins a systematic campaign to ruin her employer 's life , culminating in a chilling climax when she goes on the rampage . |
| 16 | But when she goes into the economics of food , admits the ‘ luxury ’ of aesthetic choice , and gets John Berger off the charge of ‘ bourgeois pastoral ’ or ‘ the consolatory celebration of a fictive rusticity ’ , you have a writer for whom politics was never a mere function of style . |
| 17 | The young woman feels curiously as though she is only playing at house once more when she goes into the first flat or home that she can truly call her own . |
| 18 | But her pouch has a muscle around its mouth which contracts like a draw-string and shuts so tightly when she goes into the water that her young are in no danger of drowning . |
| 19 | Ensla , Janet ooh you know what Ensla 's like when she gets on the phone . |
| 20 | When she gets to the grammar school her bent will come out . ’ |
| 21 | It is n't just bad behaviour that makes us wish the ground would open under us : there are times when you 'd gladly disown your child when she gets to the top of the slide , freezes there and screams hysterically to be carried down . |
| 22 | Show her how the level rises when she gets into the bath . |
| 23 | When she attends for the first time , she assesses the patient : if he is out of bed and eating his breakfast , for instance , she observes whether he can feed himself , or whether he needs help ; whether he has perceptual problems ; how good his balance is while he is sitting ; whether he is limited by spasticity ; what his posture is like ; and then whether he is capable of standing and walking . |
| 24 | The Minister may wish to refer to our correspondence when she replies to the debate . |
| 25 | That 's the worst time for her , she gets afraid when she wakes in the night . ’ |
| 26 | It is not merely the gracious bow they give each other before they begin , nor the even more gracious one when she submits to the prince , sinking to the ground with head bent low . |
| 27 | In the imperfect world , where things get misunderstood , a woman has to realise that when she returns from the kitchen with a toasted sandwich and her man barks , ‘ I said cheese and tomato , not just cheese ! ’ he is probably not so much worried about his stomach as about her hearing . |
| 28 | You will , I am quite sure , agree with me totally when I say , our beautiful , delectable , Annabelle is irreplaceable , and we shall miss her dreadfully , when she departs across the skies to the beautiful tropical paradise which she will enhance immeasurably … |
| 29 | When she complains of the drudgery of studying sound changes , Bernard hints that she does not really have what it takes to be a scholar . |
| 30 | He is usually to be found in his pyjama bottoms , shaving , when she comes through the door . |