Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was often to think of them when I reflected on the career of Portia Forbes . |
| 2 | I hit the ball great on the range but when I get on the course it all goes wrong . |
| 3 | When I got on the edge of the road I said to them , ‘ Who 's winning ? ’ |
| 4 | Anyway , when I got on the scales I 'm ten stone three . |
| 5 | Mm Forgetting all about oh dear I 've got a frog when I go on the air I 'll clear that . |
| 6 | It makes me cough a bit because when I came on the scene he was the one academically everything and she was the one who was academically rather disadvantaged but she , she was , you know , no not having the greatest of , of , of success but erm it was said that she would n't be able to be a student nurse because she was n't bright enough but you know she clocked up the O levels and A levels like guide badges and she went off on this pre-nursing course in South Notts you know and she was in and out of the Queens on a course and people and , you know , and she said I do n't know all the answers but I 've a rough idea about some of the questions , I want to be a nurse and off she went to , to , to Walsall and I 'm not saying she 's a brilliant student nurse but erm absolutely clear that she 's better than some of the others . |
| 7 | But as i told you before , when the council started preparing for Hitler , in when I went on the council work in nineteen thirty six I had to fill the ditches in there . |
| 8 | I needed to earn a bit of extra money when I went on the tour and so I became a professional wrestler in my spare time . |
| 9 | Inspector , but anyhow , now when I went on the detective staff I 'd only been on the force just over three years |
| 10 | over subscribed courses as well , I mean when I went on the language and , and the national curriculum and that other thing that I did on the national curriculum , masses of people there . |
| 11 | ‘ That 's just what I said to myself when I woke up this morning , but when I looked on the floor , there was the veil , torn in two halves ! ’ |
| 12 | When I turned on the dishwasher or washing machine , the power required was taken out of the underfloor heat and returned to it immediately the machines were switched off . |
| 13 | When I arrived on the scene , Joe was trying to come to terms with the situation but it was a difficult time all round . |
| 14 | The others went in the car and when I arrived on the bike a little later they 'd been down the 51 steps to the house and found it like the Marie Celeste , everything open , radio playing but no-one around . |
| 15 | After a couple of days in his new home Skipper was much more relaxed ; he no longer jumped at every sound and soon learned that when I arrived on the yard in the morning , it meant food . |
| 16 | So when I appeared on the scene and there were things about me which did n't stack up … well , it was a reasonable conclusion to arrive at . |
| 17 | But he corrected me when I mused on the potency of class hatred and class anger in the Sheffield meeting . |
| 18 | ‘ I was in a difficult situation when someone passed on the news Boro had won . |
| 19 | If she ever saw her , she thought worriedly ; she always seemed to be rushing off somewhere — and then she jumped when someone tapped on the door . |
| 20 | Two floors above , Jude heard what she took to be a domestic argument , and not wanting somebody else 's marital strife to sour her fine mood , was crossing to turn up the soul song on the turntable when somebody knocked on the door . |
| 21 | I was about ready to leave when somebody leaned on the doorbell . |
| 22 | When you get on the motorway that is |
| 23 | You can see the difference when you go on the trip , some people are . |
| 24 | Now at one time I used to say here you are here are the two products when you go on the training course it 'll be decided at the end of the training course which product you 'll go on . |
| 25 | When you land on the icescape you can imagine how the first men on the moon felt . |
| 26 | You will not see vast amounts of fat lost in a day , but you will come to understand how your behaviour relates to your body weight , and you will also avoid getting a horrendous shock when you step on the scales . |
| 27 | And that 's then when you put on the dollies on the top |
| 28 | They knew every day you , when you went on the rounds they knew just where to stop and start , especially the last pony I had . |
| 29 | Erm , it became very clear that that , that bid erm , was in fact , at an early stage , that that bid was not , did not have a realistic chance of being successful , so as , as you know Chairman , when you went on the delegation to see er , Mr in London , actually at that meeting , er , the members of the delegation said to the Secretary of State , well , we recognize , Secretary of State that it 's the wrong area , what we 'd like to really argue for is a bid for the urban core out in Browsley , erm , in , at the end of the day , we did n't even quite get that , but what we did manage to get was objective two status for the urban core of Telford still , and I think that was probably against the odds . |
| 30 | When you speak on the C.B. you do n't use your name you have a handle you can make your own handle usually to do with something you are interested and one you do n't think any one else has . |