Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] the [noun] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , I had to go up into the roof and push down the ballcock when things went wrong . |
| 2 | He 'd never once forgotten to lock up the hens when she 'd asked him . |
| 3 | It was Mellor , as junior Home Office Minister , who was left by Mrs Thatcher to pick up the pieces when the last government went badly over the top in its determination to reshape television by deregulation , irrespective of quality . |
| 4 | A particular type of credit and money-management education is that needed for the people who unfortunately have to pick up the pieces when consumers get into difficulties over credit use : consumer and community advisers , citizens ' advice bureaux staff , social workers , even probation officers . |
| 5 | GPs also complain , quite rightly , that hospital staff making , for example , discharge plans for a group of patients to a new home or hostel sometimes neglect to discuss the plans with the primary care team — normally the local general practice together with its team of doctors , nurses and other specialists — yet expect the GPs to pick up the pieces when something goes wrong . |
| 6 | Niall might be free as far as the law was concerned , but he had been the injured party , the one left to pick up the pieces when the woman he must have loved walked out . |
| 7 | and picking out the winners when the going gets rough at Ascot . |
| 8 | The doctor will work out the date when your baby is due . |
| 9 | He is one of Thatcher Tubes ' longest-serving employees , having worked originally for the electrical contracts who wired up the machines when the plant started in 1984 . |
| 10 | I used to drop in there occasionally on leave , and sometimes Cam would let me take over the drums when the band was resting . |
| 11 | Meanwhile negotiations between the US government and the Philippines over the future of Clark air base and of Subic Bay naval base remained effectively deadlocked , with the Philippines government continuing to insist that it would take over the bases when the current agreement expired in 1991 . |
| 12 | She said — and I do n't know if she was just bullshitting me , ’ and here Blufton opened his palms in a gesture of frankness , ‘ that she 'd found out the dates when a couple of lorries were due at Dover . |
| 13 | See the success of Tracy Edwards and the all-girl Maiden team and the plight of Fazisi , the Russian maxi , whose American skipper Skip Novak took over the reins when Russian skipper Alexi Gryschenko committed suicide . |
| 14 | During the talks the Philippine side continued to insist on taking over the bases when the current agreement expired in September 1991 . |
| 15 | Uses in childcare ; its mainly medicinal role includes : bathing cuts and grazes ; dabbing calamine lotion on heat spots ; stopping up the ears when the child has earache ; but also stuffing the toes of new shoes which are bought , deliberately , slightly too large ( lower socio-economic groups ) . |
| 16 | The big lattice-patterned bed in Guy 's room brought back the moment when he 'd marched in on her unannounced that first night . |
| 17 | Just as Paul Gascoigne was overcome with emotion at England 's World Cup exit in Italia '90 , Cantona could n't hold back the tears when he was joined on the chat show sofa … by his grandmother . |
| 18 | When one looks at biological materials one is impressed with the enormous care which Nature seems to take over the interfaces when she is being , as it were , teleological . |
| 19 | SHOULDER TO LEAN ON Bradford boss Frank Stapleton is relying on his No 2 Stuart Pearson ( above ) to take over the reins when he 's out on the park ( far left ) . |
| 20 | CATS , wrote London 's Daily Star , ran up the curtains when the BBC broadcast too realistic a warning to pet-owners against the use of fireworks . |
| 21 | Then I can safely leave Lisa to make up the flowers when she has time . |
| 22 | Brown pulled a goal back for Haverhill after 65 minutes , but –––Norwich sewed up the points when Gill scored their third . |