Example sentences of "when [noun] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | So when Esquire ask for their 2,000 words next month about the connection between the Croatian Winter Olympics team uniform and Public Enemy , or the brutal point of Michael Barrymore , I can somehow contrive it that I end up writing about how it feels waiting for Maddy 's first smile , about the wonder of her 35th day , about her growing up and me growing up . |
| 2 | When Roe won for the first time at the Catalan Open in 1989 , it was predicted that he would become a regular winner on Tour . |
| 3 | Now he has his leg in plaster … and is under strict orders from wife Angela to stay calm when Christie bids for glory again today in the 200 metres . |
| 4 | Faced with a deficit of 522 , Boycott and Gatting fell in successive balls with the score on 2 ; , Gooch and Gower put on 120 , but when Gower went for 54 Gooch found little company . |
| 5 | Small wonder , then , that a lot of resentment and guilt rub off on the social worker himself or herself ; and that , when opportunity arises for public shouts of , " No better than we are ! " , it may be seized upon with a fine disregard for logic in expiation of sins which might be regarded in others as excusable . |
| 6 | However , when Bernard applied for planning permission to build a factory on the site he was turned down by the local highways department . |
| 7 | The farce begins when Arnold falls for her . |
| 8 | When Edouard left for the airport the next morning , Isobel was with him . |
| 9 | Patrick was three months old when Sarah knew for sure that she would have James 's child before the year was out . |
| 10 | The Labour leader knows and the rest of the party knows that there could be an election next year , in which case when Labour meets for it 's conference in autumn ninety-one , Mr Kinnock could be addressing them , not as leader of the opposition , but as Prime Minister . |
| 11 | We got a birdie at the 11th by using the 1-iron when Johnny went for the 3-wood , got on , but not near enough to make the birdie putt . |
| 12 | This is especially important when teenagers come for weekends or holidays only . |
| 13 | When schools shut for lack of fuel in the winter , they gave private lessons to the richer peasants ' children . |
| 14 | When Surrey tied for the Championship in 1950 the county had the makings of a great side . |
| 15 | It would push a powerful Arab country back into implacable confrontation with Israel just when voices calling for a peace settlement are gaining strength throughout the Arab world . |
| 16 | He caught Duran with a solid left hook and when Duran grabbed for cover Leonard wanted to get out and back to his sniping post . |
| 17 | A comment of interest , when subscriptions to pay for the bell were not forthcoming appears in the Church magazine : " This is a matter which the Non-conformist might reasonably be expected to support , a fine peal of bells is something for all inhabitants of Halling to be proud of , they are rung on many occasions , which have nothing to do with church services " . |
| 18 | When Jane asked for an overdraft , the bank manager ( slogan : ‘ We Like to Say ‘ Yes ’ ’ ) , a pompous Dad 's Army look-alike , after conferring with some nasty men in suits who turned their backs to her , had shown her the door . |
| 19 | Love and politics clash when Maggie falls for a hard-hearted soldier . |
| 20 | She used to be drawn towards political life , she dreamt of the English statesman , yet when Simon went for office she was against it . |
| 21 | Caroline was only a few days old when Wordsworth left for home , and during 1793 , marooned in England without an income or particular hopes of finding one , he learned helplessly of the rise of the Terror in France following the overthrow of the Girondins in June that year . |
| 22 | There is no surplus from which to pay a dividend , but when directors asked for £162m of new capital through a rights issue at this time last year , shareholders were promised an unchanged final 7.64p , so they should receive it on July 1 . |
| 23 | WHEN engineers working for the Tokyo gas company , get a telephone call in the middle of the night , the chances are that a computer will be at the other end . |
| 24 | Forced realignments of the ERM have lately become almost tiresomely familiar : they cause nothing like the excitement of last September 's startling breakdown , when Spain devalued for the first time since joining , and Britain and Italy decided , until further notice , to leave the system altogether . |
| 25 | When parents applied for assistance they were asked to provide general information about the family , including occupations , earnings , rent , and size of accommodation . |
| 26 | He was off slowly enough , down the slope , but when Hazel stamped for him to stop he did so at once . |
| 27 | Yet when Lukowiak looked for such a correlation he could not find it ; it seemed as if control of the strength of the reflex was not vested in any single cell of the abdominal ganglion , but was instead a property of the interactions between the ensemble of cells as a system . |
| 28 | After the fall of Calais , when war ceased for some years , the king had to persuade the commons that direct taxes should continue in order to finance the defence of English positions abroad , notably Calais itself , and to maintain English forces in a state of readiness in case the enemy broke the truce and resumed the war . |
| 29 | In the thirty fifth minute , City got their second , when Williams going for goal , was brought down by the keeper . |
| 30 | When Katharine went for her lesson with Jennie , she had n't ridden since Christmas and was concerned that she would be very stiff and rusty . |