Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [vb -s] [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even when she strokes my inner thigh , back and forth like rocking a cradle , I hardly notice what she is doing . |
| 2 | She is introduced ironically enough when she saves her unfaithful brother 's marriage . |
| 3 | When leaving the hospital , parents are loaned a rear-facing car seat for the baby , which the midwife collects when she makes her first home visit . |
| 4 | ‘ I said I wondered how she would feel when she knows her own sister is having a relationship with the man who left her … |
| 5 | She meets him immediately when she hits his new Jag with her battered old Beetle . |
| 6 | Central government provides information on its activities when it publishes its various expenditure statements . |
| 7 | Some garages will adjust your car free of charge when it has its next service . |
| 8 | It is generally true that people are in the greatest difficulties when the external world confirms their worst fears about themselves , and are at their happiest when it confirms their best fantasies . |
| 9 | The relatives and friends who are left behind can also become entrapped in an overwhelming feeling that says ‘ I must be there when he takes his last breath ’ ; ‘ I must n't miss any last word he utters ’ . |
| 10 | Hankin is certain to announce a clear-out when he presents his retained list next week . |
| 11 | When he scores his first coulpe of goals I reckon hell take off . |
| 12 | In his chapter , ‘ Building on the class reader ’ , Foggin echoes the views of many of the English teachers to whom I spoke when he describes his English teaching as being substantially class reader based for the reason that : |
| 13 | STARTLED is the unsuspecting visitor when he meets his first restaurant bill in one of the chic capitals of French-speaking Africa . |
| 14 | Mr Brown , whose hits include ‘ Do n't Be Cool ’ , is returning to the United States for an over-all specialist health check-up when he finishes his remaining dates in Japan and Hawaii . |
| 15 | For example , in Littlewoods Organisation Ltd v Harris [ 1978 ] 1 All ER 1026 Megaw LJ said : … it is appropriate that a covenant , restricting an employee from full freedom of taking other employment when he leaves his existing employment , should be included in the contract of employment where there is a real danger that the employee will in the course of that employment have access to and gain information about matters which could fairly be regarded as trade secrets ; and that applies even though the information may be carried in his head and even though ( perhaps , particularly though ) it may be extremely difficult for the employee himself , being an honest and scrupulous man , to realise that what he is passing on to his new employers is matter which ought to be treated as confidential to his old employers . |
| 16 | In other words , can a computer imitate the process the archaeological expert carries out by eye when he constructs his standard typologies ? |
| 17 | At any rate , Weber may have this in mind when he makes his famous distinction between ‘ adequacy on the level of meaning ’ and ‘ adequacy on the causal level ’ , adding that both are required : |
| 18 | And he could break that record when he makes his 500th appearance for the Anfield giants against Chesterfield in the Coca-Cola League Cup this week . |
| 19 | Our Lord emphasises the continuity with the past when he inaugurates his public ministry with the announcement ‘ The right time has come , and the Kingdom of God is near ! |
| 20 | CHRIS EUBANK is at his most infuriating when he puts his natural aggression on hold and appears to fight for only one minute in every three . |
| 21 | What a voter is saying when he gives his first-preference vote to a particular candidate of a particular party is , " I want this candidate , of this party , to be elected " . |