Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | House spiders have often been reported to appear upon the scene when music is being played . |
| 6 | She did n't need to listen to the words when she could read her future in their eyes . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | What do I need to discuss with the parents when taking on a child ? |
| 9 | Well you follow up what you want to do with the company when you 've thought about what I 've said to you |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Once again the Macintosh has the upper hand with its graphics capability but for much of this market WYSIWYG is irrelevant , the trained operator ‘ knows ’ what 's going to happen to the text when it is run out on the page printer or phototypesetter . |
| 19 | It has peacocks , which like to sit on the seats when visitors are scarce , a compound with a few docile wild animals in , a small lake , a free-standing part of a Gothic cloister from the ruined abbey of Saint-Sever-de-Rustan which was removed and re-erected here , and , if you can find them among the shrubbery , busts of two French poets , one of whom was born in the town while the other went to school here : the native was the arch Romantic Théophile Gautier , whose bust in the Jar din Massey was sculpted by his exotic daughter Judith , the outsider Jules Laforgue , the strange , consumptive young poet who so influenced T. S. Eliot and died at twenty-seven . |
| 20 | then he comes home , that 's what he likes to do potter around the house , well I do n't want to potter around the house when I 've been stuck in for twelve months . |
| 21 | He had turned and was starting to walk towards the door when he received a full blast from her as she yelled , ‘ Do n't you tell me to shut up ! you young prig , else you 'll find the door locked on you . |
| 22 | Did you have to help around the house when you were a child ? |
| 23 | ‘ Will you be all right ? ’ asked Rachel dubiously , worried that Belinda might try to climb from the horse when the carousel was in motion , or , even worse , that she might slip from its back . |
| 24 | In an earlier paper ( 1977 ) Robarchek argues that Schachter 's frustration — aggression theory can be found to hold among the Semai when we examine one of their rules , punan , whereby any kind of ‘ frustration ’ ( I call it ‘ unfulfilled desire ’ as found in the rule punen among the Chewong ) must never be allowed to persist . |
| 25 | The auction house decided to withdraw from the sale when its December 1990 contract with Lord Northampton came up for renewal . |
| 26 | I failed to turn on the light when the sky grew dark and heavy . |
| 27 | passenger , the driver 's brother , knew vehicle was uninsured. he consented to ride in the vehicle when , with another , he and the driver set out on a night 's drinking . |
| 28 | PEOPLE in London , the Thames Valley , Kent , Hampshire and Sussex have been asked to turn off the tap when brushing their teeth , take showers not baths , and to fix dripping taps to save water . |
| 29 | The young man , Martin Grant , struggling through the throng , managed to get to the door when the sirens and the flashing blue lights outside the window heralded the arrival of uniformed reinforcements . |
| 30 | She wo n't just stay in the car , she wo n't want to stay in the car when she wakes up cos that 's too boring . |