Example sentences of "[verb] when [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four times , he said , Scots had woken up the morning after an election to find a Tory government : ‘ We can not guarantee when they wake up the morning after the election in 1997 that we will have got rid of them . ’ |
| 2 | CHARLES REALLY THOUGHT he was dying when he woke up the next morning . |
| 3 | It took Cuckney four years to overcome the financial crisis he encountered when he took over the Crown Agents in 1974 . |
| 4 | In 1966 its role was expanded when it took over the Ministries of Aviation and Fuel and Power . |
| 5 | Yeah but what happens when you come down the other end ? |
| 6 | What happens when you open up the market twenty years down the line , you realize that these industries are dinosaurs , they 're using technology that 's thirty years out of date . |
| 7 | Issued , it 's written when you fill in the application form or submit it , it 's issued once it 's been underwritten or been accepted by the drug dealer if you like . |
| 8 | She was afraid then , rather as a skier might feel when he looks down the steep whiteness of a dangerous slope , or a high diver who seems far above the water , but the sensation was so unusual to her that she could n't be sure that it was entirely unpleasant still strongly mixed , as it was , with curiosity . |
| 9 | How many more can Crayford accommodate when they put up the house-full signs ? |
| 10 | ‘ This hunger-striking buffoon sneaks out to eat so he can be well fed when he takes over the presidency , but he is screwed , ’ General Noriega said of his opponent . |
| 11 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 12 | And he said yes you can , but it would do you no good at all , cos if the point came when you split up the judge would n't look at your contract , he would only consider the rights of the child . |
| 13 | " You 'll be met when you step off the boat in Kingston , and taken to a safe house , and then you 'll be absorbed into the organization at some level . |
| 14 | I started sweating when they called out the bloke ahead of me in the high jump . |
| 15 | He grinned when he picked up the phone to check the dialling tone . |
| 16 | And now just You remember what you used to do when you come out the baths ? |
| 17 | When you dig when you carry out the digging on the a site you dig trenches . |
| 18 | At the agreed rate of 10¢ per column inch it meant that if I could provide two 25-inch columns per day , which was relatively easy for me , I could earn about $30 per week which was $6 more than I was getting when I gave up the staff job . |
| 19 | she heard when she picked up the phone . |
| 20 | The cap that happened to get overlooked returns the reader 's gaze blankly yet unavoidably , like the bill from a restaurant abroad which the conspirators find when they turn out the dead man 's pockets , and like the child 's clay whistle which one of them has provided himself with to give the agreed signal — for he has lost so many teeth that he ca n't trust himself to produce the sound naturally . |
| 21 | Spittals had insisted it should be laid when he took over the office . |
| 22 | I am employing the kind of argument that has been used to resist demands that God prove Himself by miraculous interventions of some form — demands that in Christian tradition Christ himself refused to satisfy when he turned down the Pharisees ' request for a ‘ sign ’ and asked that they have faith instead . |
| 23 | Does it end when we turn off the set or when we look away momentarily to accept a cup of tea being handed to us ? |
| 24 | The advantage to teachers will then outweigh the inconvenience caused when we set up the scheme . |
| 25 | A BUSINESSMAN 'S van was purring when he drove down the A1 in East Lothian . |
| 26 | He had , in a way , shown her the path , as Hansel did when he put down the pebbles which guided his sister and himself back home . |
| 27 | Her hands were shaking when she picked up the receiver and dialled the number of Sabrina 's flat . |
| 28 | Horsley cheerfully admitted when he took up the post of Chair that he knew nothing about newspapers . |
| 29 | I think when we slim down the Suffolk |
| 30 | I think when they steal back the houses they make the earth smaller . |