Example sentences of "when he [vb -s] the [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 're a theist , you will say , ‘ Well , here is Russell 's deeper conviction of the true nature of things bursting through the false , restrictive , scientific intellectualism into which he endeavoured to confine it , and so what we have here , when he calls the world unjust , or fearful , or whatever it may be , are his true , his ultimate convictions peeping through . ’ |
| 2 | The geneticist 's language is no more nor less metaphorical when he calls the gene selfish than when he depicts it as though itself working out the solutions in games theory by which he is explaining its survival . |
| 3 | Perhaps the most important law change to emphasise that rugby is played by players standing on their feet ; this season after a tackle any other player must be on his feet when he plays the ball immaterial of what distance he is away from the tackle . |
| 4 | He can make yet another significant contribution to a bank balance already worth $7 m when he defends the $2.7 m Johnnie Walker World Championship in Jamaica this week . |
| 5 | So the Knight says when he cuts the tale short . |