Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [noun pl] when " in BNC.

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1 In this case one male drives off the others when the nest is completed .
2 Daylight was filtering through the shutters when Luce awoke to instant and complete remembrance .
3 Far too often with a low cable break , the pilot goes for the airbrakes when there is a mile of field ahead and no hurry whatsoever .
4 One of the products that seemed to slip through the cracks when Eastman Kodak Co 's Interactive Systems Corp , Naperville , Illinois , sold its packaged Unix division off to Sunsoft Inc was Norton Utilities for Unix .
5 However , Steve 's 20-year-old son Mark looks after the dogs when dad 's away .
6 A Soho nightclub manager , Mr Peter Goodchild , 56 , was walking past the flats when the device exploded 20 yards behind him .
7 Germans were confidently walking in the streets when the alarm sounded but they did n't take it seriously and failed to go to air raid shelters .
8 It is not ( like the rain in the example of my going to London ) just another reason to be added to the others , a reason to stand alongside the others when one reckons which way is better supported by reason .
9 Our dad loves walking over the fields when he comes home tired from working in the city .
10 He frequently referred to the students when they were at College , and for long after , as his ‘ children ’ .
11 I believe it is a hundred times better to have a leader who wants to go forward rather than one who retreats towards the hills when the going gets rough .
12 And that was where er , a train came off the railways when it hit a van on
13 A discharge passes between the electrodes when the lamp is switched on ( Figure 1 ) .
14 We do not accept the submission by Mr. Sedley , who appeared for the Bar Council , that there was any conscious distinction made between the occasions when this jurisdiction of the judges , however it was exercised , went to matters related to the administration of justice , such as the equipping of the courts with advocates who were fit to appear before them there , and the occasions when it went simply to matters relating to the administration of the Inns and their property .
15 In the future , I ca n't see E the only one I can see is , What do they do with the flats when they empty .
16 If he can only argue to himself that they seem ’ interesting' it is highly likely that he does not really know why he is putting them in , or what he will do with the answers when he gets them .
17 ‘ What do you do with the ghosts when you 've got them ? ’
18 for example , would it be appropriate to attribute as an expression of parliamentary intention a ministerial assurance on the effect of a provision which was given and accepted in the Lords when considering a Bill which had already been passed by the Commons ?
19 Money is tight so we need to be quite clear on I mean for instance I mean the seats have been recovered you know people smoking in the seats when they should n't be smoking and putting they 're putting their cigarette 's out on the floor I do n't know
20 Because individual observers use the numbers of cm or inches of perceived depth in very different ways , the average amount of perceived depth was normalized for each observer using the average estimate of the amount of depth seen in the corrugations when the vertical perspective cues were correct for the 57-cm viewing distance ( dashed line ) .
21 The UK Northern Ireland Secretary Sir Patrick Mayhew and the Irish Foreign Minister David Andrews agreed on Nov. 16 that progress had been made in the talks when round-table and committee stages gave way to bilateral contacts during the past four weeks , although there had been no bilateral meeting between the Irish government and the Democratic Unionist Party .
22 He was educated in France , the family having moved to the Bouches-du-Rhône when he was about nine .
23 The Foundation 's director , Valmik Thapar , also criticized the project 's failure to take into account the needs of local people living on the fringes of the reserves , some of whom were forcibly relocated outside the boundaries when the parks were created .
24 It depends on the selectors when I get home because France come to us in May . ’
25 She did n't need to listen to the words when she could read her future in their eyes .
26 Nor does Herodotus necessarily refer to the Jews when he mentions Syrians and Phoenicians of Palestine , who acknowledge that they learnt circumcision from the Egyptians ( 2.104 ) .
27 In the first match against Riyad a disaster seemed on the cards when his side trailed 3–0 after five minutes .
28 He did not recognize me but I knew he was the gentleman I had met on the stairs when visiting Miss Havisham .
29 FORMER Goon Harry Secombe , who has had a second home in Majorca for the past 15 years , reckoned he had finally been accepted by the locals when they gave him the Spanish name El Gordo .
30 Suppose a radical objector says of an effect , the smell made by the candles when they were snuffed , that there existed 110 circumstance such that no matter if certain other events or conditions occurred , the effect would still have occurred .
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