Example sentences of "when [indef pn] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When everyone moved out of the kitchen into the living-room after lunch , leaving Jannie to put the coffee on , Bob lingered behind with her , savouring the sudden calm . |
| 2 | His comment suggests that it is almost as if , when someone woke up in the morning , they were suddenly possessed of something mysterious in becoming conscious , like a metaphysical virus . |
| 3 | So when someone walks up with the intention of breaking in a light comes on , I mean at one time , it 's not the same now , but at one time when these lights with the detectors first came out , nobody actually knew whether they were switched on or not . |
| 4 | Yes , it 's disappointing , but when someone comes in at the last minute then the adrenalin flows and you can have a very lively show . |
| 5 | But she had barely gone two steps along the corridor when something moved out of the shadows . |
| 6 | When one goes back to the real time in which we live , however , there will still appear to be singularities . |
| 7 | When one grows up in the north-east , one is aware that the region is a long way from the English seat of power in London . |
| 8 | Although the provision of public housing had been established as a principle in rural areas by 1939 — by itself no mean achievement when one looks back over the history of rural housing — the results of twenty years of legislation were a disappointment . |