Example sentences of "[adv prt] when [pers pn] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 flesh of her upper arm hung down when she reached for a cigarette , but it scarcely mattered .
2 I 'm interested in the process you go through when you look at a painting .
3 In Powys , a search for eight scouts missing on the nearby Black Mountains , was called off when they walked into a police station .
4 I understand ; I mean , you want to know that someone is n't just making the whole thing up when they talk about a man being that special to them .
5 This simple , naive and incomprehensible blunder established Scotland 's reputation as the team most likely to screw up when it came to a big match preparation .
6 When you get angry you pump all sorts of different chemicals around your body and they do n't do your body any good that 's for sure , you know you get the adrenalin that starts making everything well making the blood move faster heart beat faster you get other chemicals ready and if those chemicals are n't used properly or if something does n't happen and it uses those particular chemicals and they 're left inside the body then that causes eventually physical illness in some sort of physical wearing of some sort or another , so gradually just the opposite of this where you 're you 're not internalising your throwing it out , but there 's a hell of a lot in there that 's been stored up there and bottled up there before it throws out , and when you do tend to be aggressive it 's not because you 're being aggressive on purpose it 's because it 's just something that just happens and wells up when you get to a particular point and whoosh out it comes .
7 He will admit , however , that one should ‘ always stand up when you try on a hat — never sit down .
8 At least back when I lived in a hole I knew everything there was to know about living in a hole , and now it 's a year later and I 'm at a place so far away I do n't even know how far away it is , watching something I do n't understand go to a place so far up there is no down .
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