Example sentences of "when [noun] [vb -s] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Buck goes to a diner , he sits at a table opposite a creepy woman with a nervous tic who keeps running a grey rubber mouse over her face . |
| 2 | It 's mildly encouraging now , though , when Tod looks at a woman in the street . |
| 3 | The only powers that control fate are the Gods , and so when Tamburlaine mentions in a conversation which he has with Theridamas that he controls his own fate , this implies that he believes he is a God : ‘ I hold the fates bound fast in iron chains , and with mine hand turn fortune 's wheel about ’ . |
| 4 | When Linda stands on a chair Linda is higher than Steven . |
| 5 | A colony of Britain 's rarest and most important orchid — the chlorantha bee orchid — is to be replanted by experts when work starts on a building site in Harlow , Essex . |
| 6 | For a number of shopaholics , however , that price turns out to be dizzyingly high — when shopping turns from a pleasure , or an occasional treat , into an uncontrollable obsession that chomps its way through the bank account , with sometimes disastrous effects . |
| 7 | When Josie dies in a car crash Roth feels relief . |
| 8 | When jealousy exists in a dog , there 's a greater risk it will bite someone . |
| 9 | The hollow and fragile straw stalactites are formed when water drops from a cave roof , leaving a microscopic ring of calcite before it falls . |
| 10 | Since it is not easy to see a distinction between their characteristic properties and some essence from which they flow , one might be tempted to think that , when Locke speaks of a coincidence of their real and nominal essence , he means that the notion of a real essence does not really apply to modes . |
| 11 | However , the situation is much clearer when dog occurs in a context where neither sense entails the other , as in 43 : |
| 12 | When Sharon stands on a chair , Tracey is lower than Sharon . |
| 13 | ‘ It would still be nothing special , but when Linford retires in a couple of years there is going to be a big opening in the 100 . |
| 14 | ‘ It would still be nothing special but when Linford retires in a couple of years there is going to be a big opening in the 100 . |
| 15 | When love comes to a man in the form of grace he has the assurance that he is accepted , and is thereby enabled to experience self-integration once more , and the feeling of being reunited with others . |
| 16 | An ‘ airlock ’ occurs when air gets into a pipe and prevents the flow of water . |
| 17 | What does it mean when man gazes into a woman 's eyes , then lets his gaze drop to her cleavage ? |
| 18 | In Yorkshire when man goes into a decline during his wife 's pregnancy they giggle behind their hands and say he is " carrying " the baby , I never laugh at these remarks because I am convinced I " carried " my son . |
| 19 | As PostScript files can take an eternity to process — especially when PostScript resides in a cartridge — I 'd increase it from 45 seconds to maybe 450 or more . |
| 20 | When Howard leans on a gate , talking about the rottenness of the society he has rejected , his children are in frame as well , rather small in the background , playing tag next to his left ear . |
| 21 | When Macbeth returns in a trance , still grasping the bloody daggers , Lady Macbeth illustrates her strength by returning them to Duncan 's chamber . |
| 22 | This stereotype need not be wholly linguistic , indeed , according to Bell ( 1984 : 168 ) " Speakers are in fact able to respond to personal characteristics alone , when speech differs from a speaker 's expectations of a given addressee . " |