Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | House spiders have often been reported to appear upon the scene when music is being played . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Players will be encouraged to go to the ground when tackled to form a ruck , which goes against the whole purpose of staying on your feet to play rugby . ’ |
| 8 | MCLAREN 's problems appeared to intensify as the race approached , with the Austrian swapping cars 30 minutes before the start and then being forced to start from the pit-lane when he failed to make the parade lap . |
| 9 | This can be adjusted to close off the flow when the temperature is sufficient . |
| 10 | She had loved to go to the music-hall when first she moved to Paris and she had made friends in the quartier . |
| 11 | The surface had just begun to shimmer in the light when Mrs Rosalia Alderley came out through the French windows of the ballroom and stopped , staring in thunderstruck amazement . |