Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] the [noun] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | Distempering houses , and stepping into the breach when somebody 's cook has lumbago , and exercising people 's dogs . |
| 2 | A tender aquatic of great beauty , usually grown as an annual and placed on the pool when all danger of frost has gone . |
| 3 | It gloats when we win and goes in the huff when we lose . |
| 4 | Buchan said he would think it over , and agreed to the move when Chapman called back again next day . |
| 5 | This is bright red and is extruded and flickered at the enemy when the caterpillar is disturbed . |
| 6 | According to ancient Gothic legend , duergars sprang from the maggots eating the flesh of the giant YMIR , and fled into the ground when the first light broke . |
| 7 | Despite his lame leg , he also served with the hajduk leader Veljko in the last months of the Karadjordje revolt , and fled across the Danube when the Turks recaptured Belgrade in 1813 . |
| 8 | In an extreme situation , we 've got something like an in situ situation so the interviewer will have much more power , and has the total rights to change the topic and choose the topic , and cut off the topic when it 's finished . |
| 9 | Then of course there 's waiting at table and serving behind the bar when you 're old enough . ’ |
| 10 | It is a cruel sport at best , but the poor show the matadors and toreadors made by running for the outer rail and escaping over the fence when the enraged bull pursued them was not a creditable sight ; I spent my time , for as long as I stayed , cheering for the bulls . |
| 11 | for example , would it be appropriate to attribute as an expression of parliamentary intention a ministerial assurance on the effect of a provision which was given and accepted in the Lords when considering a Bill which had already been passed by the Commons ? |
| 12 | Books from Boots Library had small labels in them which , if a reader wanted to buy it when it had finished its circulation life , he could fill in and give to the librarian when he returned it . |
| 13 | Opened by another Mr Perkins who was staying at the same hotel , the package was passed to police who were ready and waiting for the actor when he arrived at the hotel in Cardiff . |
| 14 | The ship came round Beenbeg Point under tow and anchored in the harbour when the sun was already down behind Mount Eagle and a seabreeze was sending a grey wraith of smoke from Dingle up to the slopes of Ballysitteragh . |
| 15 | She was dressed in a silk kimono and lying on the daybed when he went in . |
| 16 | As a boy , he had liked to scrape around in the fields ; he had eavesdropped when the whereabouts of discoveries were discussed , and walked with the farmers when they ploughed an old olive grove to turn it over to fruit trees . |
| 17 | Osborne broke down and confessed to the killing when a picture of the curtains in which Dean 's body was wrapped was flashed on TV . |
| 18 | They used to be part and parcel of the water authorities and looked after the rivers when we were one big body , as a water authority . |
| 19 | It does n't break out and go on the rampage when it 's there . ’ |
| 20 | With this statement , Roebuck was answering a question about his defence and , in particular , an unforgettable head-on tackle he effected when the All Black 's runaway rhino , no.8 Wayne Shelford , was huffing , puffing and snorting for the tryline when North Harbour played New South Wales just under 12 months ago . |
| 21 | He acted out all the schoolboy fantasies , weaving his way past English defenders with consummate ease , beckoning them to take the ball with gestures of smug superiority , scoring now and again , and sitting on the ball when being brilliant became a bore . |
| 22 | Before such people can act together , a kind of telepathic feeling has to flow through them and ripen to the point when they all know that they are ready to begin . |
| 23 | A form letter should be completed and sent to the supplier when errors occur . |
| 24 | " Thank you , " I said confidently , and glared at the man when he discreetly placed a huge jug of iced water at my elbow . |
| 25 | If Hiring did invade England , he perhaps occupied the north , like Swegen in 1013 and Harald of Norway in 1066 , and was betrayed and killed by the Northumbrians when Æthelred 's forces appeared on the scene . |
| 26 | Sally had a great capacity for love and a down-to-earth quality that Harriet presumed was a throw-back to her early upbringing and which had been honed and tested in the fire when she had given birth to — and kept — an illegitimate son in the days when illegitimacy was still a scandal . |
| 27 | Poor shacks housing local families are interspersed with grand villas and there are lots of half built homes scattered around owned by Anguillans who live abroad and return to the island when they have earned enough money to add the next storey . |
| 28 | Fat grey pigeons and speckled thrushes bent the branches of the elderberries in the autumn , pecked at the fruit and flapped into the sky when frightened by my cat . |
| 29 | Cats do n't usually take to car travel , that 's why I do n't often take any of mine with me , and shutting them up in cages goes against the grain , but my sister 's two Burmese love the car , they 'll go and sit in the car when it parked . |
| 30 | The end of the anchor cable may be retrieved beneath a screw plate in the foredeck and attached to the anchor when the ground tackle is needed . |