Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [vb base] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I like to understand the meanings of words and always refer to a dictionary when I come on a new word . |
| 2 | When I come across a new metaphor , one that stretches my understanding , I feel cold . |
| 3 | I felt guilty — I seem to do that a lot , like when I could n't be with my parents when my father was dying , even when I know at an intellectual level that I do n't need to . |
| 4 | There are a few minutes , perhaps not more than three or four , when I exist in a bewildering storm of hope , joy , incomprehen-sion and dread , when they do n't find the body at the bottom of the shaft . |
| 5 | When I work in a particular area I want to know why a landscape looks as it does . |
| 6 | The first thing 1 demand when I move into a new office is one soft chair for myself and another for my visitors . |
| 7 | When I look at a natural object for a long time , like looking into the burning embers and the flames of a fire , there appears a new vision or facet of that object or a new way of seeing it in relationship to some other world of thought . |
| 8 | And that get us up to a certain distance , but even then that method must fail when you get beyond a certain distance . |
| 9 | Yes , well I think that 's why you that 's why I keep on trying to come back to the regulatory system , because what you really in fundamental form a pension is a contract between an employer and an individual , you know you pay me so much money and when you get to a certain age I will pay you . |
| 10 | got ta recognize when you get to a certain stage that like if you drink any more you 're gon na be ill . |
| 11 | When you get angry you pump all sorts of different chemicals around your body and they do n't do your body any good that 's for sure , you know you get the adrenalin that starts making everything well making the blood move faster heart beat faster you get other chemicals ready and if those chemicals are n't used properly or if something does n't happen and it uses those particular chemicals and they 're left inside the body then that causes eventually physical illness in some sort of physical wearing of some sort or another , so gradually just the opposite of this where you 're you 're not internalising your throwing it out , but there 's a hell of a lot in there that 's been stored up there and bottled up there before it throws out , and when you do tend to be aggressive it 's not because you 're being aggressive on purpose it 's because it 's just something that just happens and wells up when you get to a particular point and whoosh out it comes . |
| 12 | To have self-confidence is great and it helps when you apply for a new job , but to eat up your seed corn because you 're sure all will turn out for the best is foolhardy . |
| 13 | When you act in a loving way , the other person is more likely to respond and to show the best side of their nature . |
| 14 | A concave underwater shape will give superior performance when you progress to an intermediate level . |
| 15 | When you shop for a new bed make sure you try out lots of models . |
| 16 | When you come across a faint track alongside a wire fence on the right follow it . |
| 17 | When you come from a big family , as I do , erm yo you can have any size of wedding as long as the right people are there , anybody gets excluded it 's er to be horrendous ! |
| 18 | We 've all seen it when you arrive at a new prison . |
| 19 | When you invest in a new carpet , invest in a pedigree — Stoddard Templeton . |
| 20 | We English have an important advantage over foreigners in this respect and it is for this reason that when you think of a great butler , he is bound , almost by definition , to be an Englishman . |
| 21 | When you feel in a good mood . |
| 22 | Well , it does us good to take a break but our experts have plenty to say this month about stitch patterns and how to experiment with them , so when you feel like a little knitting , try a few sample swatches . |
| 23 | When you look at a complex sponge skeleton such as that made of silica spicules which is known as Venus ' Flower Basket , the imagination is baffled . |
| 24 | All camera shots are external and the camera position and angles changes when you move to a different location . |
| 25 | The Lady of the Hearth can be invoked when you move into a new home . |
| 26 | Mrs Mitchell added : ‘ When you move into a new house you could reasonably expect all the locks to work . |
| 27 | When you pray in a sexist way , those who are concerned about it notice . |
| 28 | In short , when we hear of a peaceful society , we are likely to envision a society that is somehow the antithesis of the self-absorbed individualism of the modern urban-industrial world . |
| 29 | When we hear of a sustained flow of funds ‘ into ’ investment trusts , we must recognise that extra funds do not go into the trust at all ( except in one case we shall come to in a moment ) . |
| 30 | The ash-fall which buried Pompeii and the mudflow which covered Herculaneum , however , are first-class examples of two major kinds of volcanic phenomena , which have been repeated scores of times on different volcanoes in different parts of the world and we will be following them up more closely when we come to a detailed consideration of the mechanisms of eruptions . |