Example sentences of "when [noun] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When Freud spoke of civilization ’ , Smith writes , ‘ he had in mind the process of ‘ modernization ’ and the characteristics of urban life in the industrial capitalist cities of his own time' . |
| 2 | János Hunyadi was regent of Hungary during the minority of King Ladislas V , but had to step down at the very moment of the fall of Constantinople when Ladislas came of age . |
| 3 | When Eleanor died of fever at Nottingham , in the autumn of 1290 , Edward was grief stricken and journeyed to bury her in Westminster . |
| 4 | When Hare speaks of universalisability he refers to the requirement that one be prepared to support one 's ethical judgements by precepts couched in completely general terms . |
| 5 | They give no sense of a close-knit family unit , but they make it quite clear that when Edward writes of adventures in and around London commons , or at Swindon , the word ‘ we ’ invariably includes one of them . |
| 6 | I was enthralled when miners talked of firedamp , rock falls , dust explosions and death and injury underground . |
| 7 | So when El-ahrairah talked of stealing King Darzin 's lettuces , Prince Rainbow laughed and said , |
| 8 | When Thucydides spoke of the allies who urged Sparta to go to war , he was thinking of Corinth above all . |
| 9 | It may seem that when Bunting speaks of ‘ the beautiful step of the verse , he is gesturing into a void not much less than Allen Tate when he wrote of the ‘ rhythm ’ and the ‘ movement ’ of Eliot 's ‘ Ash-Wednesday ’ . |
| 10 | The bomb went off when Carol learned of her trip being cancelled . |
| 11 | When Nigel learned of their whereabouts , he began to hunt them down with the aid of his yeomen . |
| 12 | His explanation was very simple : Burton was too short , he said , when Scofield spoke of him as ‘ 'my rock , on which I lean ’ … he went to lean and went down about two feet . ’ |
| 13 | When economists speak of ‘ Positive economics ’ they mean a predictive science , governed solely by the test of experience . |
| 14 | But when Mozart said of Stein 's piano that ‘ the little hammers fall back to rest immediately after they have hit the strings ’ , he was remarking on the quick response of Stein 's action . |
| 15 | Only when Rebekah learns of Esau 's determination to kill his brother , and sends Jacob to her own brother Laban nearly three hundred miles away , is another death of a younger son avoided . |
| 16 | When Flavia spoke of all of this , it was also night . |
| 17 | Ludens now craved for these sessions , and had even instantly , when Irina spoke of the cottage in Wiltshire , decided he would have to move there , reorganise his life , and set up house next door . |
| 18 | Since it is not easy to see a distinction between their characteristic properties and some essence from which they flow , one might be tempted to think that , when Locke speaks of a coincidence of their real and nominal essence , he means that the notion of a real essence does not really apply to modes . |
| 19 | In the Preface when Marx writes of the ‘ social , political and intellectual life in general ’ it is equated with his concept of consciousness as a social process . |
| 20 | When news came of Robin 's death , it was at a weekend ; she shut herself away , and saw no one , not even Nathan Holland who had come to console her . |
| 21 | Even he , who loved his bed more than anything , joined us to listen to Colonel Stephens , and when news came of some successful advance against the Axis he would burst into wonderful , joyous laughter . |
| 22 | Some very optimistic people thought that the war would be over in a couple of weeks and these hopes were reinforced when news came of the invasion of Normandy . |
| 23 | Many of the rebels , after a planned night attack had been called off at the last minute , had gone off into Inverness in search of food or were sleeping exhausted , unwilling to be roused , when news arrived of Cumberland 's approach . |
| 24 | Ironically the biggest cheer came when news broke of the downfall of Mr Patten , Conservative chairman , to the Liberal Democrats . |
| 25 | When people speak of doubt , sooner or later medical images pop up as doubt becomes seen as a sickness of faith . |
| 26 | When people speak of ‘ science ’ , they usually mean the sciences of nature , especially physics , chemistry , and biology , in line of descent from the scientific revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . |
| 27 | When people speak of conceptual clustering , they often mean more than just a clustering process . |
| 28 | When people think of giving help or support to those in trouble they nearly always imagine that this help will need to be of an intense and emotional nature . |
| 29 | When people think of natural scientists doing research , they tend to think of them in a laboratory , probably doing an experiment . |
| 30 | When people think of archaeology , they tend to think of excavations , particularly those in distant lands such as Egypt and Greece . |