Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [vb -s] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mother I remember there was a sale of work going on at Palfrey church once and bef I had just been made apprentice at Wolverhampton and of course I got amongst the , they , when they came the , the Derby day they were all having a bet on it so I , I said to the give them half a crown , so he said you ca n't have half a crown and he said what do you want it for so I said they 're putting it on a horse was on this horse it won , so of course this sale of work was in great progress when I gets off the train at station and thought well I could n't understand in er Palfrey Church Hall , so she was there in all her finery and I said we 've won , we 've won she said shut up , shut up she said but erm no I think the biggest character in Caldmore was Father . |
| 2 | I was just takin' off my apron in the smithy when I says to the guv'nor : |
| 3 | During this time the egg passes along her oviduct ( egg-laying tube ) so that it is ready for immediate extrusion when she arrives at the nest . |
| 4 | And that brings us to the end of another fun half hour — tomorrow Katie Wood will be showing us how the other half relax when she mixes with the toffs on a country house weekend near John O'Groats . |
| 5 | ‘ I hope I 'm not around when she learns about the alterations to the house . |
| 6 | You have to accept the fact that she will not be feeling she has too much to be grateful about , when she ruminates on the loss of her home and some of her previous complete independence . |
| 7 | Lady Macbeth provides Macbeth with the determination he requires when she hears of the witches prophesy and her husband 's title of ‘ Thane of Cawdor ’ , she immediately begins planning Duncan 's murder . |
| 8 | This introduces several movements seen later in more solemn form when she dances with the prince at the ball . |
| 9 | After winning the love of Claire 's daughter and the respect of her husband Mike ( Matt McCoy ) , Peyton begins a systematic campaign to ruin her employer 's life , culminating in a chilling climax when she goes on the rampage . |
| 10 | But her pouch has a muscle around its mouth which contracts like a draw-string and shuts so tightly when she goes into the water that her young are in no danger of drowning . |
| 11 | But when she goes into the economics of food , admits the ‘ luxury ’ of aesthetic choice , and gets John Berger off the charge of ‘ bourgeois pastoral ’ or ‘ the consolatory celebration of a fictive rusticity ’ , you have a writer for whom politics was never a mere function of style . |
| 12 | Ensla , Janet ooh you know what Ensla 's like when she gets on the phone . |
| 13 | It is n't just bad behaviour that makes us wish the ground would open under us : there are times when you 'd gladly disown your child when she gets to the top of the slide , freezes there and screams hysterically to be carried down . |
| 14 | When she gets to the grammar school her bent will come out . ’ |
| 15 | Show her how the level rises when she gets into the bath . |
| 16 | The Minister may wish to refer to our correspondence when she replies to the debate . |
| 17 | That 's the worst time for her , she gets afraid when she wakes in the night . ’ |
| 18 | It is not merely the gracious bow they give each other before they begin , nor the even more gracious one when she submits to the prince , sinking to the ground with head bent low . |
| 19 | In the imperfect world , where things get misunderstood , a woman has to realise that when she returns from the kitchen with a toasted sandwich and her man barks , ‘ I said cheese and tomato , not just cheese ! ’ he is probably not so much worried about his stomach as about her hearing . |
| 20 | You will , I am quite sure , agree with me totally when I say , our beautiful , delectable , Annabelle is irreplaceable , and we shall miss her dreadfully , when she departs across the skies to the beautiful tropical paradise which she will enhance immeasurably … |
| 21 | When she complains of the drudgery of studying sound changes , Bernard hints that she does not really have what it takes to be a scholar . |
| 22 | He is usually to be found in his pyjama bottoms , shaving , when she comes through the door . |
| 23 | She said no , she said , he told her if she wanted to go to the expense of a wig , she could get a wig and she wear it when she went out , but when she comes in the house she must take it off , she must not wear that wig |
| 24 | We sometimes stroll out that way , in the evenings , and wait , and then discreetly precede her when she walks to the villa ; she never turns , but she knows we 're there . |
| 25 | It 's like Miss , when she walks from the staff office to here , she could have four conversations and when she gets here she thinks what was the first conversation about again ? |
| 26 | SWIMMING : Kornelia Ender , winner of four gold medals and a silver at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal , will make her first appearance in Britain when she competes in the Edinburgh International Meet from April 16-18 . |
| 27 | " If you give that little rat so much as a teaspoonful you 're the one who 'll know all about it when she soars into the air with buck , lep and kick . |
| 28 | But I could n't agree more with Philippa Davenport when she writes of the formality that seems to have overtaken marriage celebrations , particularly in England ( page 47 ) . |
| 29 | Mary Warnock provides a scathing analysis of the government 's attitude to higher education when she writes of the contempt that the government has for universities and their staff : |
| 30 | And that night of course in The Bar we were all saying , oh god when she jumps into the truck , how fabulous was that , it just makes you want to cheer ; and Boy thought again , well that is how life is , that is how I feel , that is how I feel when I 'm leaving the bar with my husband for the night , my husband-to-be , that 's just what I think when I 'm getting into his car , Goodbye Father , Goodbye . |