Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb -s] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Be careful when she swats at a fly or a spider , she may swat you by mistake . |
| 2 | Here the prostitute both loiters and eventually solicits when she speaks to a client . |
| 3 | Kylie fever has sent the temperature soaring and thousands camp out to catch a glimpse of Kylie when she appears as a guest on DJ Simon Mayo 's Radio One Roadshow . |
| 4 | ‘ When she behaves like a Sharina , she blames people 's dislike of her on being a foreigner , ’ sighed Jane . |
| 5 | It is always news when something happens to a tram ! |
| 6 | There are times , frankly , when one longs for a video camera . |
| 7 | It is right that when one pays for a pint of beer , one should get a pint of beer . |
| 8 | It was thought that Green took his large prepared copper plates out into the landscape and worked on them in front of the actual view , but when one looks at a print of a recognisable location the image is not reversed as would have been the case if a direct drawing onto the plate had been made from nature . |
| 9 | Such an assumption is strong enough that when one comes across a response that is apparently irrelevant ( as ( ii ) overtly appears to be ) , an inference is triggered that would preserve the assumption of relevance . |
| 10 | When it happens with a train it 's it 's one hundred percent you 're absolutely stuck with the thing . |
| 11 | This is enviable good luck and financially profitable , and when it happens to a writer whose standards are not thereby lowered only prigs will think less of the work . |
| 12 | On the other hand , when one is obsessively searching for the solution to a problem , it may be consciously recognised when it occurs as a fluctuation in the random activity of the subconscious whereas in other circumstances it might not emerge at the conscious level at all . |
| 13 | ( when it occurs before a noun ) Weak form : ( at the beginning of a sentence ) ‘ Take his name ’ ( Another sense of ‘ his ’ , as in ‘ it was his ’ , or ‘ his was late ’ , always has the strong form . ) |
| 14 | It is quite clear that this power available to the courts is essential to deal with contempt of court when it emerges as a result of abuse of trade union power or trade union positions . |
| 15 | The knowledge which research provides is most useful when it goes beyond a description of events to provide a basis for future action . |
| 16 | If there was an air raid at night and the lights on the camp boundary were turned out you missed the flickering of the searchlights as you miss the light of the moon when it goes behind a cloud . |
| 17 | I should be quite content , I thought , to live here for ever , smelling the cooking and the lavatory and the dust , looking forward to my two slices of bread at lunch or tea and my Red Cross stew at supper , thinking about all the books I am going to read and how nice it is going to be when I can speak German and Russian fluently ; I only want to be allowed to live , and enjoy the sun when it shines , and wait for it when it goes behind a cloud . |
| 18 | Erm always been lucky , especially when it falls on a Friday . |
| 19 | The same holds true when it comes to a consideration of the reasons for the individual grants made by the Romans . |
| 20 | When it comes to a present , I 'm stuck . |
| 21 | All right , they say , a wife is a wife after all , but when it comes to a parents ' decision … |
| 22 | So when it comes to a race like the Olympic final it 's no different . |
| 23 | Intel Corp rates the 66MHz version of the Pentium chip at 112 MIPS — well it is claimed to execute two instructions per cycle — one for each of its parallel arithmetic-logic units — two five-stage execution units , and claims that it is five times more powerful than the original 80486 microprocessor and over 300 times faster than the 8088 ; it contains 3.1m transistors , compared with 1.2m for the 80486 ; it is manufactured in Intel 's 0.8 micron three-metal layer BiCMOS process technology ; it has two 8Kb on-chip caches and a fully compatible floating point unit that is up to five times faster than the one on the 80486 at the same clock speed ; to get around the problem that the thing can squeal to a halt when it comes to a branch that stalls the instruction stream , it includes branch prediction , where the chip remembers prior instruction pathways and predicts the correct pathway for a new instruction . |
| 24 | To get around the problem that the thing can squeal to a halt when it comes to a branch that stalls the instruction stream , it includes branch prediction , where the chip remembers prior instruction pathways and predicts the correct pathway for a new instruction . |
| 25 | She 's well used to aiming right on the mark in her work , but admits she needs a little more practice when it comes to a dart board , especially when it 's in front of an audience of millions on Bullseye . |
| 26 | ‘ You obviously have n't got the first idea when it comes to a relationship … |
| 27 | These problems have n't gone away , but they have been dwarfed by difficulties that stem from ‘ under-control ’ : adolescent and adult excesses due to drug and alcohol abuse ; poor self-control of anger ; a lack of scruples when it comes to a variety of antisocial actions , ranging from vandalism and violence to child neglect and child abuse . |
| 28 | In other words , pre-exposure to the stimulus may both retard the acquisition of the CS-US association and act to interfere with the retrieval of the information embodied in this association when it comes to a test trial . |
| 29 | You know but I mean when it comes to a screw and your , I mean we 're talking about coming like this to undo the screw . |
| 30 | I 've never shirked anything when it comes to a tangle of heads and bodies in the box and when I punch the ball it stays punched . |