Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not find any improvement in actual dollars spent on maintenance when I compared an object-oriented system written in 350,000 lines of C++ with a comparably complex product written in 1.25 million lines of C code . |
| 2 | When I received an unexpected invitation , I do n't know how , to deliver the opening address of an important conference on Germanic studies at Göttingen dedicated to ‘ Controversies ancient and modern ’ , I chose to raise this issue , which seemed so crucial to me . |
| 3 | One morning I was driving along the road when I saw an old man frantically waving a walking stick at passing cars . |
| 4 | In March , on a visit to Leatherhead , I was walking around the JS branch when I saw an old customer . |
| 5 | I was soaked and shivering and was about to return in a desultory spirit to my hotel to take whatever food was offered there at whatever price , when I noticed an indoor shopping centre and darted in , shaking myself out like a dog . |
| 6 | The change in my approach to mathematics began when I joined an in-service Diploma in Mathematics Education.2 In the first week I was given the task of making a 3 x 3 x 3 wooden cube made up of three different pentacubes and three different tetracubes . |
| 7 | This may not always be on a personal level — it could be in your work when you make an inner stand refusing to accept what is dished out to you by shutting that inner door . |
| 8 | Mr Nordin says : ‘ When you make an international phone call , you do n't worry what network or exchange or lines your voice travels over — you just use a logical address , the telephone number , to reach the person you want to talk to . |
| 9 | There are occasions when you get an odd fish that weighs a couple of pounds more or less than the average on that day , but to expect this to happen is foolhardy . |
| 10 | Just er wh when you put an , when you put an each way bet , you put two bets on at the same time . |
| 11 | When you want an electronic punch-up , please keep it off the list . |
| 12 | When you have an unidentified body and a missing man it 's straightforward police work to put them together and see if they fit . |
| 13 | I was just going to say , I think what you say on full employment , erm , elsewhere they 're keeping wages and pay up is n't it , erm , and I 've known a couple in Telford again , that there 's work there , a new company it 's perfectly easy to take on all the good skilled labour they want , then they say they feel they 're very guilty because they 're poaching it from across the road , the British company has probably been two wages so that the jobs , it does mount up , so I do n't , I , I would like to know more about erm , what the low pay unit would really do to help us , and I look at this eight thousand two hundred and eighty pounds , and I think that would go an awful long way in the Mr Chairman , in helping to keep that going , which creates all the people who leave and get jobs , and good jobs , and get skills , and erm , I , I , it may be if there 's going to be a big budget , eight thousand pounds is not very much , but I , but when you think an individual project like that of course , any sort of traineeship , it 's a lot of money . |
| 14 | I reckoned that I needed to chance everything on a — well , it 's a bit like roulette , when you feel an inexplicable urge to stake everything on one number … |
| 15 | Travel in our Silver Jubilee year and enjoy the freedom of the Railway when you buy an All-line ticket . |
| 16 | ‘ When you needed an extra pair of hands in a hurry so that you could get on with a job , Roger was always the first to drop what he was doing and help you . ’ |
| 17 | when you spend an entire morning just child hanging off you . |
| 18 | I have known her since my earliest days in publishing , when she played an important role in the launching of Paladin Books , and I have admired and learned from her every since … ’ |
| 19 | In particular , during the discrimination trials , the children ‘ dutifully ’ followed the example set by the model , even when she took an indirect route to the boxes , which more than doubled the distance to be travelled and ‘ was clearly incompatible with the subjects ’ eagerness to get to the containers ' . |
| 20 | If the reason is not self-evident , it soon emerges when we imagine an appropriate part of to be placed in the verbal position . |
| 21 | It looked very bad when we advertised an eight P M start and if |
| 22 | An interesting adaption of our 10 day holiday to Alsopahok in Hungary occurs when we make an overnight stay in the Vienna Woods area , thereby giving you plenty of time for sightseeing in Vienna itself . |
| 23 | Machine intelligence presents a slightly different case , because it is to a great extent governed by human intelligence : clearly , when we design an artificial brain , we create it in our own ( intellectual ) image . |
| 24 | We had just cleared a jungle overhang , and slipped beneath it like a snail under a mushroom , when we awakened an enormous colony of giant fruit bats — the " flying foxes " with a wingspan of over three feet . |
| 25 | Apart from the obvious disadvantage of not being able to view your slide without a projector or viewer , the problem arises when one wants an extra set of slides or prints , say of a spawning sequence . |
| 26 | The company had seated themselves again , and conversation was just beginning to resume , when there came an authoritative rapping of knuckles upon wood and M. Dupont had risen to his feet . |
| 27 | If I was born in that period , I would be dead already , and you would n't need to listen to me But if you look at this as far as the medical profession and the insurance profession need each other , what happened to these people when they develop an infective condition ? |
| 28 | We discuss in Chapters 5 and 9 the experiences of BL with reorganising maintenance work when they installed an automated welding line for the Metro car . |
| 29 | Several hundred firefighters from throughout the country stopped traffic outside the Home Office when they staged an impromptu demonstration in support of their leaders . |
| 30 | You meet perfect strangers , listen politely to their life stories and then , when they cock an inquisitive ear , you need no encouragement to answer their unspoken questions . |