Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] the [noun] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'll want to go to the toilet when you start blowing the candles out little horror |
| 2 | Thanks to a neat design , no muck got spilled into the tank when removing the filter , and it was pretty full . |
| 3 | ‘ A smalltime crook who got caught in the crossfire when I was working on a story a couple of years ago . |
| 4 | ‘ They live , or they 're supposed to live , in the paddock between the Rectory and the House , but the fencing needs seeing to , so they tend to wander round the Rectory when they want . |
| 5 | If you are the sort of person who needs to go to the lavatory when you are nervous make sure you know where it is . |
| 6 | Recalling a symposium held at St. Louis in 1961 , the distinguished organic chemist Herbert C. Brown has commented on the reaction when he suggested that many of the proposed nonclassical structures for carbonium ions had weak experimental support . |
| 7 | A kitchen timer that rings to indicate to the child when they have managed to sit for a specific length of time can be linked to the reward chart . |
| 8 | Our dad loves walking over the fields when he comes home tired from working in the city . |
| 9 | House spiders have often been reported to appear upon the scene when music is being played . |
| 10 | She did n't need to listen to the words when she could read her future in their eyes . |
| 11 | You 're supposed to write the minutes for this meeting on the back of the agenda , now , I know very few people who ever actually do that , er , I always want to look at the agenda when I 'm taking my notes . |
| 12 | What do I need to discuss with the parents when taking on a child ? |
| 13 | Well you follow up what you want to do with the company when you 've thought about what I 've said to you |
| 14 | No one can anticipate the precise skills that workers will need to succeed on the job when information processing , knowhow , and creativity are the value added . |
| 15 | The Socialists ( 24.5 per cent ) had considered merging with the Communists when the war ended to create a single working-class party but their leaders , like Leon Blum , believed that the road to socialism lay through a liberal-democratic political system rather than a Soviet-style regime . |
| 16 | The Government 's own Department of Development Aid has apparently been so devious that the judge investigating the billions of Rand evidently missing or misappropriated , which should have gone towards assisting the poorer ( black ) communities , has thrown in the towel when faced by the department 's shambolic accounting . |
| 17 | The jackal thinks he has feasted on the buffalo when in fact he has just eaten the eyes , entrails and testicles rejected by the lion . ’ |
| 18 | In the event , Paris was saved because Galliéni recognized that the moment had come to strike at the Germans when Kluck , wheeling northeast of the city , exposed his right flank to the Sixth Army . |
| 19 | The one who got shot in the chest when Special Branch and MIs tried to pick him up in Bayswater . |
| 20 | Mr Hartley 's mother Isabel said : ‘ He often has barbecues and goes swimming at the river when it 's hot . ’ |
| 21 | One of the products that seemed to slip through the cracks when Eastman Kodak Co 's Interactive Systems Corp , Naperville , Illinois , sold its packaged Unix division off to Sunsoft Inc was Norton Utilities for Unix . |
| 22 | It is still unclear from the account given in Macmillan 's memoirs what facts were made known to the Queen when the Prime Minister read to her from his hospital bed a memorandum of advice containing the suggestion that she should invite Lord Home to attempt to form an administration . |
| 23 | Sampras will finish the year in 81st place , Courier a more respectable 24th , but in doubles they have eclipsed their more renowned contemporaries and deserved to qualify for the Masters when Ken Flach and Robert Seguso were forced to withdraw at the last minute . |
| 24 | Though they went down 2-6 , 2-6 , 6-7 to the experienced Australians , they deserved to qualify for the Masters when Ken Flach and Robert Seguso were forced to withdraw . |
| 25 | Rory talked fast and funnily , told them of the rat they 'd found in the caravan when they 'd come to it , recounted the horrors of a little restaurant in Buncrana where they 'd eaten the night before , and laughed at the way he and Mallachy had sailed past the beach a thousand times before deciding to boldly ask them for a drink . |
| 26 | ‘ Was I the fool who let go of the rudder when the ship was on top of the rock there ? |
| 27 | Adam knelt beside her , thinking of Zosie and Zosie 's mother and stepfather who had not bothered to go to the police when their daughter unaccountably vanished . |
| 28 | The door to his room had been closed and locked when she visited the mother , and she had not bothered to come to the house when Tatyana committed suicide . |
| 29 | Oh , no ; whatever it was wanted to introduce itself at some stage , because one night she was lying staring at the dark when it seemed as though her head simply filled out into a large horizon . |
| 30 | If all these gorgeous chaps are going to rally to the standard when we stick it in the salt pot , then I , for one , am going to be as fragrant and petal-soft as a lady in a soap commercial . |