Example sentences of "[pers pn] when a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's one thing if you 're fully staffed but if you think that whichever of my boys is on guard duty for the day is responsible for the shopping as well as the cooking , and I have to put another boy on guard as substitute to him and another at the disposition of the local magistrate , and I 've two out on motor-bike patrol — where am I when a case like this comes up and I 've got to be out ? ’ |
| 2 | Does it always bother you when a man comes within touching distance , or is it just the effect I have on you that makes you flinch away ? ’ |
| 3 | What does it mean to you when a man is n't thinking clearly ? ’ |
| 4 | They can quite easily send you a postcard telling you when a meter inspector will call . |
| 5 | This security alarm plug from POWERBREAKER has a battery in it , which powers a loud alarm — telling you when a fuse blows or the power fails , even through the plug being accidentally pulled . |
| 6 | These were the dead whose stink had touched her when a child . |
| 7 | The choice was taken from her when a gust of wind suddenly snatched the door from her fingers and slammed it tight shut . |
| 8 | She stood on the threshold of that world when war broke out and she went to work in a factory ; it began to open up for her when a photographer first spotted her and the camera became her true love . |
| 9 | Men from the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders berthed on the ship and on one occasion she had war scars inflicted on her when a bomb fell on Portland Place and debris rained down on the top deck gouging pieces out of the timbers . |
| 10 | I was with him when a TV interviewer asked him , ‘ Now Alec , tell us about your past . ’ |
| 11 | She was about to answer him when a hand appeared on the steward 's shoulder and drew him back sharply . |
| 12 | But when it when a bill came up and it would take away the money that we 'd saved for Kelly 's new school uniform , so it always seemed to come in a rush and there was always something needed like you know . |
| 13 | Is it when a person needs help to lift a glass to his or her lips , or does it depend on the degree of dehydration ? |
| 14 | I love it when a plan does n't work how dry I am , how dry I am , nobody knows how dry I am will you get me whisky for me ? |
| 15 | I like it when a Prince song is overwrought , has been worked at neurotically ( Prince 's music teeters on the brink of being addled by perfectionism , but never is stifled by attention , because every superfluous squiggle or quiver in the sound is a carnal appendage of the man 's polyrhythmic perversity ) . |
| 16 | So Care Kaleidoscope , Caress , The X Factor … what should we call it when a variety of different ingredients are brought together , blended , and receive a release of energy which makes the whole greater than the sum of its parts ? |
| 17 | Her husband spoke of a winter in Rome working miracles but why should it when a summer in Siena had failed ? |
| 18 | ‘ In fact I love it when a woman takes the initiative sexually . |
| 19 | Web-making spiders are sensitive to the vibrations on their silken threads that tell them when a victim has blundered into the web . |
| 20 | When she put her hand to her hair she felt small twigs and she was hastily removing them when a car slid to a halt beside her . |
| 21 | Well it should be in the file and I asked for this and keep it before me when a scheme is set up , A we have a map which I must have sent out letters , |
| 22 | My lesson lasted about half the time of Tony 's , terminating as he was explaining the purpose of the deadman 's handle to me when a gust filled his chute and hauled him off in fine style . |