Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I ask the fat ladies at the drop-in centre what is the one thing that would do most to improve the estate they say ‘ get rid of the kids ’ and they are only half joking . |
| 2 | oh I , I 'd never , I I realize now from six weeks ago when I got the damn things |
| 3 | My eyes were immediately attracted to the table and my mouth started watering when I saw the home-made cakes and jam tarts laid out on a white lace tablecloth . |
| 4 | But those gloomy musings ended abruptly when the skim dropped me near the pod was berthed — and when I saw the shadowy figures around it . |
| 5 | I had half-managed to con a colleague in the Press-box into believing that the Brewongle Stand was named after an old left-arm spinner from Parramatta named Bluey Brewongle when I saw the dark-green uniforms emerging from the pavilion , and the emotions crowded in with a sudden impact . |
| 6 | When I had the two miscarriages — you did n't know about the miscarriages , did you , Charles ? ’ |
| 7 | Air temperature was 15 ° C at 8.00 pm , just before complete darkness , when I heard the first voices in an extensively flooded field . |
| 8 | I had almost reached the kitchen doorway when I heard the furious sounds of her footsteps coming back towards me again . |
| 9 | And when the bud grew in me , and I knew her every cell as it pulsed to life ; when I felt the pliant fingernails and rip of flesh that is a mouth:then I knew this was my planet . |
| 10 | At first he thought I was mad , but when I took the live animals out of my pocket to show him , he believed me . |
| 11 | When I examined the new drugs , I was glad to see some acriflavine — a useful all-round skin antiseptic which has to be used with a bandage to prevent evaporation because of its alcohol base . |
| 12 | And when I recall the shattering consequences of what happened one night a month or so later , I think of Hamlet , saying ‘ When sorrows come , they come not single spies , But in battalions . ’ |
| 13 | But when I toured the poorer areas of Panama City , the church congregations there were silent , sad and confused . |
| 14 | The same applied a week or so later when I won the 100 metres at Gateshead against France and Czechoslovakia . |
| 15 | About five million , million unemployed , when you take the true figures into account . |
| 16 | When you analyse the four goals Spartak scored over there , one was a penalty , another down to Bruce Grobbelaar 's eccentricities and a third one scored when emergency keeper David Burrows was between the posts . |
| 17 | It did n't seem right , yet , looking at his face you 'd , she 'd thought he could have come home , but when you lifted the bloody sheets and then she 'd never seen anything like it , and then on the Monday morning , I stayed with him Sunday night and he were on morphine fusions and then on the Monday morning I woke up and mum had gone , when I looked at dad I thought to myself then I thought oh boy you ai n't gon na go now mum nipped home for a bath they said she could and it 'll be alright and they said |
| 18 | But when you keep the big names supplied with a particular kind of amusement you can always depend on it that the police are found to be in the wrong , or that they are framing an innocent man , or that the children in question are his nieces . |
| 19 | One of the cons of the mainstream is the industrial process and that 's what you choose to join or not when you have the necessary skills . |
| 20 | when you do the late bookings , you know where you 're going do n't ya ? |
| 21 | Do n't confuse them with the metallic Yambuki Ogons , which look decidedly vulgar when you see the two varieties side by side . |
| 22 | This becomes very obvious when you see the many remains on the moor dating from pre-history to more modern times . |
| 23 | And yet when you check the four tracks when the Horde switch gear , you also learn that they are n't frivolous good-time emotional escapologists . |
| 24 | He had found them and he loved them : the little heads like frail iron , withstanding this wolf-month cold ; and , when you opened the white petals , there were the green veins , promise of the Spring to come . |
| 25 | When you lower the spiky defences a fraction and forget the political soapbox , you 're pleasant company ! ’ |
| 26 | By contrast , when she wrote the novel versions of Stolen and To Have and To Hold ( ‘ ghastly title — it was a television title ’ ) , her characters had already been embodied , by other people . |
| 27 | Her hand trembled slightly as she place it on her father 's arm , but when she heard the traditional strains of music announcing her arrival , and saw Silas looking extremely handsome as he waited at the end of the aisle , her nervousness fled . |
| 28 | The girl upstairs , who was already very frightened , felt desperate when she heard the terrible things they were shouting . |
| 29 | A young woman who was with her hid when she heard the first shots and witnessed what happened . |
| 30 | She was in her first-floor sitting room , secure in her easy chair , when she heard the first sirens , saw the first police cars turn into her street . |