Example sentences of "when [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he had experienced complications when using them for logistics in Vietnam . |
| 2 | Tip : Always dry lettuce carefully when using it as a filling to prevent sandwiches going soggy . |
| 3 | The Super Dustbuster 's features include a lock-on button and loop handle , which make it comfortable to hold and easy to use , and because it is so light , it does not present problems when using it above head height . |
| 4 | Too often the role is left to a houseproud male or to the women who dig their own grave when entrapping themselves into a traditional duty , by doing it themselves out of resignation . |
| 5 | Do n't expect too many favours around the 26th or 28th , particularly when handling anything of a legal or business nature . |
| 6 | More the kind of face-lift marketing men give an old product when launching it with a new package , less a shift of political culture and strategy rooted in the configurations of modern social change . |
| 7 | He 'd been slashing car tyres when approached him with a hammer . |
| 8 | Member states are not always as Community minded when implementing directives into their respective legal systems as they are when adopting them within the Council . |
| 9 | What we in effect register when pronouncing something to be " the same x " are merely certain similarities . |
| 10 | A regularly travelled long straight hill has a road sign at the bottom , now , when passing it at 50 mph , the Land Rover tops on the hill at 44 mph as opposed to 39 on two or four star fuel . |
| 11 | It may help to twist drain rods when pushing them down the drain . |
| 12 | I have you and all at your magazine to thank for your support , but listening to the troubles of fishkeepers on the telephone and when meeting them over the last twelve months I am left in no doubt that there is a vast array of undetectable contaminants in our tapwater , apart from just chlorine , which consistently depress fish condition and render them less able to resist stress and infection . |
| 13 | As in all societies , ritual is particularly important when meeting someone for the first time . |
| 14 | When sentencing him at Oxford Crown Court today , Judge Leo Clarke described it as a motiveless and shocking attack . |
| 15 | Jurors in the case of Dalton Prejean were unaware of his long-term mental problems when sentencing him to death . |
| 16 | What is clear from these comparisons is that ‘ occupational status is not the only factor which individuals consider when assigning themselves to a given ‘ social class ’ . |
| 17 | Dealing generally with the question of art teaching , when addressing himself to the abortive attempt to found a Fine Art course at Oxford in 1922 , he postulated that art schools should , above all else avoid , ‘ The temptation to consider the number of students as a test of success , what I may call a kind of moral and social capitation grant . |
| 18 | Patients will often be your greatest ally when testing yourself for the first time . |
| 19 | This , however , is not at all uncommon when regressing someone to such an early age , for babies do not have an awareness of time in the same way that adults do . |
| 20 | The rule against prior restraint is secure in libel cases " because of the value the court has placed on freedom of speech and freedom of the press when balancing it against the reputation of a single individual who , if wronged , can be compensated in damages " . |
| 21 | These birds would later peck a dry bead when offered it on test and therefore serve as controls for the methylanthranilate-trained group , for they had not learned to avoid the bead . |
| 22 | Apart from not actually having members of your audience fall headlong , the other main consideration when getting them into and out of their seats is ease of movement . |
| 23 | Bailey 's Jamaican informants did when providing her with examples of JC for her book , Jamaican Creole Syntax ( 1966 ) . |
| 24 | One feature of the mushroom polyps which should be born in mind when positioning them in the aquarium is the strength of the sting that their short tentacles produce . |
| 25 | above ) when removing them from the vicinity of a police van into which the arrested persons were being placed . |
| 26 | He was said to mate with cows when strengthening himself for battle . |
| 27 | And , when burying himself in work , he left several bowls of gold coins outside his room , with a note saying ‘ Please help yourself to those coins , but on no account disturb me ’ . |
| 28 | It is boring , often done in locations where it is difficult to avoid ‘ bosses ’ , it affords only a limited range of ‘ bluffs ’ or easing techniques , and is looked down upon by regular policemen and women , a view unintentionally reinforced by those sergeants who apologize to regulars when asking them at parade to do sanger duty . |
| 29 | When recording something like vertical acceleration the changes can be rapid and almost continuous , with the result that the recorded value on a mechanical system of this type is never really accurate . |
| 30 | An anecdote tells how , when asked which of his wives he had preferred , he had replied , |