Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have no doubt that dedicated woodturners everywhere would scoff at the idea of engineers ' lathes being used for woodturners , but when I think of the various moulds and patterns I have made over the years with comparative ease but which due to their intricacies could only have been made with extreme difficulty on a wood lathe — if at all . |
| 2 | The later history of the Daily Express suggests not : when the Express became hostile in the 1920s , Younger raged " when I think of the large sum of money this office has put into that gutter print it makes my blood boil " . |
| 3 | Remember George Seawright when you speak of the brave , |
| 4 | Remember George Seawright when you speak of the brave , |
| 5 | And in a relatively small way , but when you think of the other universities doing the same sort of thing , in a larger way , we are offering this kind of opportunity to people . |
| 6 | When we wrote of the new system at the time of its introduction , we did not mention the technical problems . |
| 7 | When we hear of the Communist Party appealing for law and order it seems to me that it is a matter of Satan rebuking sin . |
| 8 | Moreover , when we speak of the perceived function of reformed monasteries , we do not mean primarily their economic functions as efficient optimizers of agrarian wealth , or even their cultivation of knowledge and production of books . |
| 9 | When we speak of the British constitution that is the normal , if not the only possible meaning the word has . |
| 10 | When we speak of the electronic office we are now referring to an administrative system based largely on computers , word processors and associated communication devices . |
| 11 | When we learned of the mysterious sickness , we protested , became a link , and joined the chain . |
| 12 | It means , by contrast , that when we talk of the technological imperative and resource allocation , we must realize that we are talking about the political process , and understand what this involves . |
| 13 | When we talk of the in-love state , we are usually including strong sexual passion and an intensity of emotion not experienced in other affectionate and loving relationships . |
| 14 | But given its setting , we must not allow ourselves to be blinded by Abraham 's bravery , nor , when we read of the resounding success of his venture , by his military prowess . |
| 15 | This lack is astonishing when one thinks of the innumerable ancient towns of England that richly deserve such a study . |
| 16 | I lived in the book , as — in your others : I liked particularly Isabella and Evalie , and their gay early middle age — how comforting , too , to be with people who find ‘ the Change ’ such fun , when one thinks of the depressing nonsense that most people make out of it … . |
| 17 | Of course , America has always been highly influential , but when one thinks of the Rolling Stones and Beatles erm and what have you in the sixties and seventies , and how much it has influenced Continental light music , not light music but popular culture , it is incredible . |
| 18 | When one speaks of the biblical God , one automatically says ‘ He ’ : that God is profoundly male . |
| 19 | Heclo and Wildavsky adopt an anthropological tone when they speak of the British policy-making system in Whitehall concerned with public expenditure as a ‘ village community with a variety of subtle norms about the type of behaviour which is acceptable and unacceptable , praiseworthy and condemnable . |
| 20 | When they complained of the long hours , Peckinpah had them fired . |
| 21 | Ask voters to say what comes to mind when they think of the Labour Party and a large proportion mention , ‘ the unions ’ , ‘ strikes ’ , ‘ the winter of discontent ’ , and ‘ the three-day week ’ , even though this last event occurred under Mr Heath . |
| 22 | It is not precisely clear when he knew of the extra cases . |
| 23 | Roger Duvoisin ( 1965 , p.25 ) extends this idea when he speaks of the well-designed page . |
| 24 | The presenter of This Is Your Life flinches when he speaks of the recent major surgery on Patrick 's hip . |
| 25 | Thus the Englishman , familiar with his Rhaetian sediments at the top of the Trias , can not but be astounded when he reads of the Rhaetian deposits of Thailand and finds them described as black pyritous shales with Rhaetavicula contorta , resting on red marls and sandstones , with evaporites , just like those of the Severn cliffs . |
| 26 | When he heard of the multiple deaths , he committed suicide by throwing himself under a lorry . |
| 27 | The hon. Member for Westminster , North touched on that , but he was not convincing when he spoke of the underlying causes of that crime . |
| 28 | The author warms to his subject when he writes of the Peninsular War . |