Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore , it was not surprising that when I intervened on the hon. Member for Newham , North-East he was a little coy about referring to his party 's record on unemployment . |
| 2 | Whether , of course , I would have taken this view were I to have had someone in my squadron who turned LMF is open to question , When I reflect on the young aircrew that I helped to train in 1940 at Kinloss , some 10 years younger than myself , I marvel that the conversation stage was the last stint before they were to confront a highly lethal opponent . |
| 3 | Mm , when I looked on the other page there was more . |
| 4 | ‘ When I stood on the first tee in the morning I could hardly see the fairway , ’ said the Atherstone club-mate and friend of Paul Broadhurst , the Ryder Cup player . |
| 5 | But when I concentrated on the postage-stamp-sized photographs bearing his name that had started to appear , I could no longer be certain that he and The Fat Controller were one and the same . |
| 6 | I had a feeling it would be for the best , I said , when I stopped on the hard shoulder that day . |
| 7 | When I emerged on the other side , our little game of hide-and-seek was over : he had vanished , taking the girl with him . |
| 8 | As some of the options ( transfers etc ) only come up when you land on the right square , I did n't have to wait eons for Phil to finish his turn . |
| 9 | Bloody hurt it bruises , you sit on it and it does n't , I thought I might , I suppose after a while you 'll get blisters but it 's bruised , when you sit on the bloody thing . |
| 10 | But we are a few guys , not interested in politics , who will play golf with anybody as 50 per cent individuals and 50 per cent representatives of our country because when you stand on the 1st tee , they call … |
| 11 | He walked by her side without touching her , even when she tripped on the uneven turf , and she knew she had destroyed anything there might have been . |
| 12 | We showed when we pull on the green jerseys , when the real chips are down , that we would die for each other . |
| 13 | And when we prevailed on the prior to let us raise the stone , this is what we found . ’ |
| 14 | I hope that when we meet on the nineteenth Alan or Paul will immediately knock all that on the head . |
| 15 | They pop up and over it , and when they land on the other side and they slow down a bit . |
| 16 | Yet , in heavy rock terms , they still retain an erudite edge and play with an urgency onstage that outstrips the uncharacteristically sluggish Babes In Toyland , when they played on the other side of town , two nights earlier . |
| 17 | ‘ They kept the fighting till later when they sat on the management-union joint negotiation committee . |
| 18 | This they had done when they descended on the genteel town of Winchelsea . |
| 19 | When they resumed on the third afternoon after time lost for rain , they lost quick wickets , and at 214 for 6 seemed to have wasted the advantage . |
| 20 | If and when they work on the tacit assumption or make such a blatant assertion as that , that there is no longer any poverty , because it is not true and unless and until it is true neither they nor we have got any right to be content . |
| 21 | We led by two shots going into the last round , and when it blew on the last day , I did n't think anybody could beat Trevino . |
| 22 | And what it does really is keep the belt firm so when it goes on the former it keeps it firm . |
| 23 | If marketing was partially dynamic when it focused on the changing needs of customers , the introduction of the external environment as a driver of marketing thinking forces firms to be fully dynamic in their approach . |
| 24 | Such an assumption is perhaps made most explicit in the Beckford Report when it comments on the apparent failure of the area officer in the case to recognize the apparently obvious indications that he was dealing with a ‘ high risk ’ child abuse case when chairing the initial case conference : Clearly it is of concern if health and welfare professionals are unfamiliar with the relevant research and it is one of the aims of this chapter to contribute to that understanding . |
| 25 | ‘ Even when it stopped on the 5th ’ , the historian John Buchan was to write , ‘ there followed days of sombre skies and wet mists and mucky clouds . |
| 26 | When he goes on the one day in two years that something went wrong , that shows he 's doing a good job . ’ |
| 27 | Karen Schendel looked up and smiled at Whitlock when he knocked on the open door . |
| 28 | As Charles limped along Praed Street , he began to regret dressing up for the encounter , but when he reflected on the exceptional violence of blackmailers in all detective fiction , he decided it was as well to conceal his identity . |
| 29 | When he walked the perimeter fence , when he worked at the bench with the wood that would become a chair 's leg , when he ate in the Kitchen , when he lay on the top tier of the bunk , he was alive and alert . |
| 30 | Perhaps I could be Eric 's stunt man , standing in when he turns on the flash dangerous stuff that terrifies the defenders in his wake and makes them have a go like David Burrows did . |