Example sentences of "do when [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then ’ in 1960–3 , eighteen years ago ; and in the meantime , apart from summarising my reflections and discoveries before they passed from my memory in a slim volume entitled Medicine and politics , I have done what most ex-ministers do when they have a left most departments — given the subject a wide berth . |
| 2 | The first thing most people do when they diet is to cut out many of the foods they like . |
| 3 | WHAT do arts documentary-makers do when they want to profile someone who prefers not to appear on camera ? |
| 4 | If we placed as much effort into making a fuss of children when they are good as we do when they are naughty we might make even greater gains . |
| 5 | A big bream is a very deep-bodied fish and would have to stand almost tail to surface to pick a bait direct from the bottom with its lips , which I know they do when they are in that kind of mood . |
| 6 | I instinctively looked away , the way children do when they see something naughty , as though witnessing it might incriminate them . |
| 7 | Ian : Because people do when they are up high . |
| 8 | Clyppan was an Old English word meaning to clasp with the arms or to embrace , and this is what the parishioners of Guiseley and Tankersley do when they ‘ clip ’ their respective parish churches . |
| 9 | ‘ The first thing passengers do when they are served is have a look at what their neighbour has got — their piece of chicken has got to be the same size , ’ says Karen . |
| 10 | WHAT do post-Empire Maharajahs do when they are down on their luck after a lifetime of strutting around India showing off their public school educations ? |
| 11 | All they do when they 're at sea is take down the messages we send to them , so do n't worry about not picking up a signal , 'cause nobody 'll be sending you any . ’ |
| 12 | It 's not how many people come to the first night of your tour in Windsor , it 's what they do when they get there . |
| 13 | The authors ' approach is to examine what native speakers do when they ‘ make conversation ’ , and then to use this information as the basis for more than eighty tasks and activities . |
| 14 | Search consultants are often called in when an organisation is considering going into a new business sector , as Marks & Spencer did when they went into financial services with their credit card ; as when BP were trying to diversify their business and spot winners by developing new technology ; as financial services institutions do when they wish to launch a new product or enter new markets . |
| 15 | ‘ The international division of labour ’ is only a fancy way of describing what people do when they go to work . |
| 16 | With charming naivety , they do not imagine that they themselves are the source of it : they behave as they do when they see a frightened horse , becoming agitated and desirous of flight . |
| 17 | He had turned grey , as Indians do when they are unhappy . |
| 18 | If the fish were to bend its body as many fish do when they swim , the pattern of the electrical field would distort . |
| 19 | No doubt the publishers would claim that it was all in the pursuit of the greater truth , in the way that the slimy tabloids and the unspeakable Sunday Times do when they are parading some particularly unpleasant piece of gossip . |
| 20 | The assumption appears to be , therefore , that women do not experience the same degree of loss as men do when they retire from paid work . |
| 21 | When learners watch video programmes in the target language , they are exercising their listening skills as they do when they listen to an audiotape . |
| 22 | And , of course , they — the tumbril was standing in the cart-shed there with the back-chains hanging , d'ye see , fixed on each shaf , just like they do when they go on a horse . |
| 23 | Second , he feels guilty about how he treated you and wants to make amends — something people often do when they find happiness because it 's only then that they can afford to consider how much they have hurt others . |
| 24 | Now it appears that Paul Biya , Cameroon 's president , head of state and party chairman , has — in the words of a recent article in Japan 's Daily Yomiuri — ‘ decided to do what most of the world 's poorer nations do when they need ready cash , and approached [ Japan 's ] Foreign Affairs Ministry . ’ |
| 25 | Entry qualifications are generally the same , that is five O level GCE passes or their equivalent , as those required to continue on to degree and other higher level courses , which is indeed what the great majority of students do when they have successfully completed their foundation courses . |
| 26 | She felt solitary and isolated , as though she were missing out on something very necessary , while the others discussed their families , raising their eyes to heaven , complaining about the circumstances of their lives in that particular way women do when they do n't really want to change a thing . |
| 27 | Will they know more about that than they do when they simply carry out what the curriculum requires of them regardless of how it is supported , budgeted for and described to parents by the governors ? |
| 28 | She was speaking quietly but fast , and pausing for breath in the wrong places the way politicians do when they fear interruption . |
| 29 | The concept of transnational practices refers to the effects of what people do when they are acting within specific institutional contexts . |
| 30 | Although there can never be any guarantees , it is frequently the case that older children enjoy working with younger ones , enjoy the responsibility they are being given , and behave much better than they do when they are working on their own . |