Example sentences of "when [pron] see the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I kept my birthday a secret , except that some students wanted me to sign some books , and as I signed them I put the date and I happened to say that ‘ I am signing this on my 44th birthday ’ , and after that the news spread mysteriously and my whole class greeted me with ‘ Happy Birthday to you ’ in English , and today , when I saw the other class , they sang ‘ Happy Birthday to you ’ in Portuguese . |
| 2 | She had drawn the curtains at the house the previous evening and was carrying out a routine check at about 7.30 am when she saw the smashed back porch . |
| 3 | ‘ Tomorrow , when she sees the head man , I 'll go with you , Kate , and we 'll try and sort this business out . |
| 4 | If you 've been impressed so far , you 'll be pleased to know that there 's even more to discover when you see the new Moffat Discovery for yourself . |
| 5 | I know people imagined I was much older than I was when they saw the first film because some newspapers referred to me as ‘ the Old Lady of the Dales ’ . |
| 6 | Labourer Nick Stylianou , 26 , was repairing paving stones when he saw the first bomb explode . |
| 7 | Coun Jones had been visiting his mother-in-law at the hospital in October when he saw the Labour candidate among the crowd of protestors . |
| 8 | That was when he saw the thin figure jogging towards him in the gloom , and heard the roar of engines come up fast behind him . |