Example sentences of "[vb pp] when [pron] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For if a garage habitually does half the service its costs are very much lower than if it has done the full service ; and since it can charge the full price , because of the ignorance of the consumer , its pro fits are maximised when it does as little of the service as it can get away with . |
| 2 | Candy Morris has amazed doctors at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford.Just two weeks ago her foot was almost severed when she fell into this shredding machine at her own paper baling business . |
| 3 | There 's one in the window I 'm just gon na have a look , cos I never had noticed when I came in this morning |
| 4 | And I think when we talk in terms in getting around to spending the money we have got then we need to look quite clearly about how you make a place more inviting and it 's also about when people come into the building how they 're met what the receptionists like , when they ring up can they get through and I mean I 'm I 'm surprised that 's said about the tickets that I think that our reception ticket areas an excellent area the people working there are first class are very friendly very helpful so it 's trying to get that sort of concept through the building I thin k we work on that I think the building 's kept very clean people who clean the building are very good but I hear what you 're saying and I thinks it 's been said earlier by the lady here by the foyer downstairs she feels threatened when she goes into that bar because I think the whole decor and the way it is is a threatening place I think we need to look at those so that was an old and . |
| 5 | His head turned to me , just the way Mrs Quigley 's had done when she passed on that first message from my dad . |
| 6 | Er problems that you can have beset when you go to some places . |
| 7 | I 've just been round to see Mrs Reynolds in the village , and she 's adamant that all the kitchen and scullery windows were closed when she left at nine-thirty . |
| 8 | The superlative is used when we refer to one object or group that forms a part of a larger group of collection . |
| 9 | I found the church locked when I arrived at four thirty . ’ |
| 10 | Political practice was condemned when it went beyond this constitutional state of affairs . |
| 11 | People need rules in order to live and work together efficiently , and they need to be protected when they rely on those rules . |
| 12 | The research ship Solo was seized when it crossed into territorial waters . |
| 13 | As well as suggesting disease and contamination with the word ‘ spotty ’ , Milton tries to put across the idea that the mighty size and grandeur of the moon , like that of Satan , will be reduced when it comes under human comprehension . |
| 14 | Steven Spielberg 's much hyped dinosaur movie dubbed ’ Jaws with Claws ’ is expected to be a huge box office hit when it goes on general release this week . |
| 15 | Johnson also read a little — in his room he had works by his erstwhile host Lord Monboddo , and Laurence Sterne 's Sermons of Mr Yorick ( interestingly , Boswell does not give the full title , merely calling it Sermons , a deference perhaps to the scandal the book had caused when it appeared in 1760 ) . |
| 16 | His father Vincent , now 70 , holds an OBE awarded when he retired after 40 years as an executive with the Agriculture Ministry . |
| 17 | Actually , he 'd started on that before six and I think he 'd finished when I left at six-fifteen . |
| 18 | A man who drove a stolen car the wrong way along a motorway near Bristol was killed when he crashed into another car . |
| 19 | He concludes with this paragraph : If religion throughout the ages , and certainly in many parts of the world today , has been used as a weapon for destructive purposes , are we not called to demonstrate that as people of faith we can both live in passionate commitment to our respective tradition and at the same time in compassionate respect for each other and to affirm that the faith commitment of each one is only truly realized when we live in that mutual respect accordingly ? |
| 20 | David acknowledged the complexity of Peru 's problems yet he remained an optimist , becoming most heated when he talked about those who repeated endlessly that Peru was a poor country . |
| 21 | However various kinds of feminists might wish it otherwise , women play a mix of roles in present-day British society : they are wives , mothers , daughters and paid workers , and they somehow juggle all these roles together , largely by taking on part-time work which , as Land points out , is seriously marginalised when it comes to occupational benefits . |
| 22 | One patient was only diagnosed when he presented with small bowel lymphoma . |
| 23 | I can not give over any of the powers that I , as a Member of Parliament , elected by the citizens of Aldridge-Brownhills — and each of us elected by our respective constituents — was given when I came to this Parliament . |
| 24 | This was where the offices of the English Department and several lecture-rooms were situated when I arrived in 1957 , twenty years after Philby . |
| 25 | Thirty years , easily , I mean it wa , it was already established when we arrived in nineteen fifty nine . |
| 26 | IMF and World Bank men are often booed when they talk to African audiences . |
| 27 | He got his PhD through animal experimentation , but he was n't qualified when it came to recombinant DNA technique . |
| 28 | Fortunately , both those clauses enjoy the protection of unanimous voting or could be changed when they came to practical application into law . |