Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So when everyone arrives at work first thing in the morning and switches on their PCs , kettles and desk lamps , the sudden drain can cause a noticeable fluctuation in the power supply ; the UPS can remember that . |
| 2 | I DID NOT STAY to see the Eid — the Eid Al Iftr , that great feast of the breaking of the fast , the days of celebration when everyone dresses in new clothes as though the sackcloth of fasting has lifted and life has renewed itself once again . |
| 3 | When everyone looks at you expectantly and everything you do is significant , when men defer and women give you cool , appraising glances ? |
| 4 | When nothing seemed to be happening , he yanked it open . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Blowing right to left across the beach , and slightly on shore , it quickly reaches force 4 or more on about 65% of the afternoons in season , including the odd flat patch when nothing blows at all for six or seven days . |
| 7 | Newman , what was the weather like when me met in Lübeck ? ’ |
| 8 | But when I turn to her and part her thighs I |
| 9 | When I turn to him , his face is streaked with tears . |
| 10 | When I turn in the saddle and point it out to him with vigorous gestures , his curiosity is aroused . |
| 11 | When I ran into Kevin Sheedy , I just looked at him . |
| 12 | When I ran into the kitchen the oven was lying on the ground and thought she had done it . |
| 13 | I remembered the first days in New York when I ran like a wild animal set free from a cage . |
| 14 | When I ran in Pinsk in 1985 , children in the street started to follow me , until officials told me to use a park . |
| 15 | I watched the clock ticking away as I approached , and when I passed through the finish line I held my arms up to heaven and with my eyes closed said ‘ Thank you god . |
| 16 | When I passed at this point MacArthur said perhaps I would like to hear his summary as a soldier and as no businessman or textile expert . |
| 17 | I shall also ensure that , in future when I land on unlicensed fields , I land as short and slow as possible . |
| 18 | In future when I land at anything other than properly documented airfields I will ask the question : Are there any other runways or strips that look like runways in the vicinity that could be mistaken for the active runway ? |
| 19 | My aim was to secure a good head of each species and , in consequence , except when I shot for meat , I shot selectively and seldom . |
| 20 | For instance when in a dream she was conducted by me over a market garden in Aegina , one could guess that she had been reading Angus Wilson 's The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot , in which a market garden figures ; or when I dreamed of a detective novel by her , with a detective bearing her own name and very uncharacteristically dressed there were signs of my addiction to the detective novels of Gladys Mitchell . |
| 21 | When I remarked on this to the doctor 's wife , she explained that the town was under virtual siege , cut off from the central government . |
| 22 | But when I inquired about this I was told : ‘ they belt the kid later , in private ’ . |
| 23 | When I inquired after the baptism he said he had been mistaken , it had been yesterday , but that there would be another in a few days and , anyway , who needed a baptism to enjoy themselves ? |
| 24 | By then the noise of the avalanche had died away , only the echoes of it reverberating across the valley , and when I shifted into the driving seat and looked back , the road behind us had ceased to exist . |
| 25 | ‘ When I realised after months that I was n't ready to quite , it was a case of ‘ okay , I 've opened the floodgates , how do I close them ? ’ |
| 26 | When I insist on that priority , as I can tell you I most certainly will — with the full support of the Prime Minister in doing so — then I 'm sure my colleagues will see the point of that . |
| 27 | When I lived at home my mum was cool about whatever I wore ; her only considerations were practical ones , like insisting I wore ten million jumpers if I went out in the cold . |
| 28 | She 's very muddly and disorganized and I can see so clearly where she falls wrong … when I lived at home it was always a bit of a nightmare because I was always trying to get things straight . |
| 29 | I had some experience of this when I lived at home , having to wait hours for the district nurses . |
| 30 | Cos she says you would n't lend me none when I lived at Arthur 's , I says no because every time I lent one at our Arthur 's he swore black and blue it were his . |