Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She liked the sizzling sound of the water as it hit the stones when someone threw it from the bucket . |
| 2 | Therapist Julia Blackburn 's heart sinks when someone visits her at The Maidenhead Natural Therapy Clinic and says , ‘ I 've tried a grapefruit diet , a pineapple diet , a very low-calorie diet , and now I 've come to see whether hypnotherapy might work . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Sometimes when I take him to the local toddler group and watch him playing with the other children , I think it would be great if he could just feel the sand in the sandpit between his toes and know what it 's like to get his hands all messed up with play dough or paint — the things other children take for granted . ’ |
| 4 | We never let her out , the only time she goes out is when I take her to the shop . |
| 5 | I have one month when I take it on the dot , every day , I then forget , and I think , oh God I 'm pregnant . |
| 6 | As Brian Clough told me when I met him on the top of the Little Elm bus earlier this season — we were both going to check out Little Elm Intaflora 's young Dutch forward , Kylie Van Der Graaf — ‘ Sadly , young man , football is like a football . ’ |
| 7 | These things I gathered from what Dorothy 's husband Leo told me when I met him in the chemist 's shop one day . |
| 8 | That was when I met you for the first time , last week , at the consciousness-raising group that we started at the women 's centre a few weeks ago . |
| 9 | Nothing much else happened , as far as I recall … but then I did n't visit the cottage much , not before that morning when I met you in the garden . |
| 10 | I knew when I saw her in the graveyard reading the writing . |
| 11 | One day when I saw him in the village , he said , ‘ I hear I 've got a son , Ellen , whose name 's Linton ! |
| 12 | I was window-shopping across the road at Tower Records ( good selection , but top price ) when I saw him in the reflection . |
| 13 | ‘ I could hardly believe my eyes when I saw you in the market . |
| 14 | ‘ The closest I ever got to any man was when I had him in the sights of the rifle and I never missed . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Well , here we are , ’ Andy says , sitting forward and slapping his hands on his knees , then taking the J when I tap him on the elbow . |
| 16 | ‘ Twenty-four years old he was when I found him in the provost 's prison in Paris , and paid his fine to get him for my own , him and that foster-brother of his whom you know well . ’ |
| 17 | Utd ( which I was totally amazed about when I read it in the newspaper ) he seems to have settled down and appears to put in more effort . |
| 18 | I was afraid long ago , when I hit him in the mouth with that heavy glove , that I might kill him one day . |
| 19 | I was still gagging up the last few dregs when somebody punched me on the cheek , sending the other side of my head banging against the metal wall of the shelter . |
| 20 | ‘ We also want to know exactly how Garland spent his time from Saturday afternoon when his father died to last night when somebody shot him on the wharf . |
| 21 | I remember when she took us to the pantomime in town , and we saved up all our sweets for three weeks to give her as a present . |
| 22 | She stood five feet six tall in her high-heeled shoes , her long hair was dark , and she was the kind of thirty-five-year-old woman men turned to look at when she passed them in the street . |
| 23 | She was floating — in the same way as the keys did n't when she released them on the Moon . |
| 24 | I was painting the back of the house one Saturday , when she shook me off the ladder , I got a compound fracture on me left leg . |
| 25 | Jimmy last met the Queen in 1979 when she presented him with the OBE. |
| 26 | ‘ Do n't ! ’ groaned Tim when she teased him with the label . |
| 27 | There was no one about when she let herself into the house , and thankfully she went quietly up to her room . |
| 28 | it 's like sort of a guy comes into lectures and , and , and he can be , particularly when talking about things like racism and disability , be quite liberal as it were , you know , and that kind of when you get him down the pub all on his own er a quite different repertoire comes out so er |
| 29 | " I saw it in your eyes the other day when you warned me about the marchioness . |
| 30 | You 'd be surprised how beautiful the other side of Koraloona is when you see it from the sea . ’ |