Example sentences of "when [v-ing] [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have you and all at your magazine to thank for your support , but listening to the troubles of fishkeepers on the telephone and when meeting them over the last twelve months I am left in no doubt that there is a vast array of undetectable contaminants in our tapwater , apart from just chlorine , which consistently depress fish condition and render them less able to resist stress and infection . |
| 2 | As in all societies , ritual is particularly important when meeting someone for the first time . |
| 3 | Dealing generally with the question of art teaching , when addressing himself to the abortive attempt to found a Fine Art course at Oxford in 1922 , he postulated that art schools should , above all else avoid , ‘ The temptation to consider the number of students as a test of success , what I may call a kind of moral and social capitation grant . |
| 4 | Patients will often be your greatest ally when testing yourself for the first time . |
| 5 | She started off as a journalist , and when reading her on the nauseating cult of Elizabeth David , you know you are in the hands of a mistress of rhetoric . |
| 6 | At present , Akeakamai can understand sentences of up to five words , and can understand commands even when hearing them for the first time . |
| 7 | When visiting us in the early stages of Christian Aid she listened with obvious incredulity to our talk about the hours we would spend in Church on the books . |