Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [prep] the [noun] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had brought out his lists , four sheets , and had got them half fixed to the door when Allan knocked him aside and tore them down and then spent an hour , with James 's help , going down the names and telling the young men to their faces whether or not they were listed . |
| 2 | That surprised everyone , because it was n't felt appropriate to practise with the opposition when the match was still in the balance . |
| 3 | It 's easy to take off the outside when when you come to take the inside ones it 's quite difficult . |
| 4 | Broadcasters are quick to jump on the Press when they feel public opinion is that the papers have Gone Too Far . |
| 5 | In these circumstances , it was suggested that the auditors should have been aware that Fidelity was vulnerable to a takeover bid and that any possible bidder such as Caparo would be likely to rely on the accounts when deciding whether a bid should be made and that loss would be suffered by such a bidder if the accounts were inaccurate . |
| 6 | Nephew of John Moores , founder of the Littlewoods pools empire , he had had little to do with the business when he found suddenly himself in line to the throne . |
| 7 | At most racetracks , horses are put in separate boxes which all open at the front when the race begins . |
| 8 | Terry had asked the family to wait at home for him and they all rushed into the hall when he rang the bell with Pat pushed forward to open the door . |
| 9 | It 's no good complaining after the event when your hair is on the floor . |
| 10 | And then they all went down the drain when you came to Nottingham . |
| 11 | Prompt at four o'clock , Dr Neil , complainingly dressed in his best suit at Matey 's request — ‘ Do I have to ? ’ he had said , rolling his eyes at McAllister — Matey in a bottle-green velvet gown which McAllister had not seen before , McAllister in her best sateen skirt , white blouse , and small lacy cap with streamers , were all sitting in the parlour when the doorbell rang . |
| 12 | Lukas , now eight , and Léonore ( right ) , now three , were each introduced to the forest when about six weeks old . |
| 13 | I always cringe when I see a lorry like that coming on the road when you ca n't see past it |
| 14 | Well all we had was Broadfield School and that 's where my boys had to go to Broadfield , they went into Broadfield School and erm , they all got on alright you know , they got on well there and then from there they went to when the new school was built they went to Netteswell school you see , but two of my sons are electricians and unfortunately the eldest one , one of the electricians I could n't put him to apprentice because I could n't afford it cos I had a hard to struggle to bring them up you know in those days , we did n't get erm any family allowance or anything those days , and erm , so therefore he could n't go , but he sort of got on and got his own factory , but my other son who 's an electrician , one of the twins he 's erm , he 's got his City and Guilds he passed , he went , he was able to go to the school when the new schools were built you see , when Netteswell school was built he was able to go to night school and er learn all you see , then there was the one at Burnt Mill was n't there , down the bottom ? |
| 15 | He 'd buy a house for Penny 's mum , a big , big house and then they 'd sell it again and he left every bit of the money to Dionne , so she 'll be able to look after the child when she gets twenty-one and that , but now |
| 16 | Sir John Fastolf , involved in a long drawn-out lawsuit in Paris between 1432 and 1435 , could remind the court that he had been the first to jump into the sea when Henry V had come ashore in France in 1415 , and that the king had rewarded him with the grant of the first house which he had seen in France . |
| 17 | Kate 's delicate , smiling beauty was first brought to the spotlight when , in 1990 , she appeared twice on the cover of THE FACE in rapid succession . |
| 18 | All it was doing was essentially the same operation as that performed by the computer when it copies data from one location to another . |
| 19 | ‘ There is a lot of denial and it is very difficult to talk about the abuse when it is happening to you , especially if you are a researcher as you do n't have much contact with the person on a regular basis , ’ Ogg says . |
| 20 | When Ben is with his wife Valerie , he becomes a warm , outgoing individual ; the same applies to the Australian when he is with Maureen . |
| 21 | If savings have been set aside for a funeral , and would now pay for one at current prices , that money , invested at the best rate of interest , may be enough to pay for the funeral when it occurs . |
| 22 | JG BALLARD ( writer ) : ‘ It 's been suggested that women will be keen to dispense with the penis when they find an imaginary substitute within virtual reality . |
| 23 | Partly because those who served in garrisons had to be ready to serve in the field when required ( for a castle acted as a base where soldiers could remain when not in the field , and from which they could control the countryside around by mounted raids within a radius of , say , a dozen miles ) , partly because of an increasing difficulty in securing active support from the nobility and gentry for the war in France , English armies at the end of the war sometimes included a greater ratio of archers to men-at-arms than ever before , sometimes 7:1 or even 10:1 , rather than the more usual 3:1 under Henry V and the parity of archers to men-at-arms normally found in the second half of the fourteenth century . |
| 24 | Now seven such dire devices lurked within Sagramoso City , ready to erupt against the Marines when the hundreds of suited Fists came flooding in — to a trap . |