Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] [noun sg] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | I recently met the Japanese Keidanren when they visited this country , and I reassured them that the Government continue to welcome and support Japanese investment in this country . |
| 2 | As far back as 1904 Winston Churchill had foreseen the same change when he predicted the tariff reformers ' coming takeover of the party . |
| 3 | Inconvenience — the trials are liable to require the teacher to distort his plans for the course in order to accommodate the new material when asked . |
| 4 | Settling in , I looked out of the window and reflected on what it must have been like for the men building the Trans-Australia Railway when hundreds of navvies , using horses , camels and a few machines , battled their way across the inhospitable plain , which in winter crackles underfoot with frost while summer temperatures exceed a baking 50°C . |
| 5 | Before I consider whether this is a valid approach and whether in this case the coroner applied the correct test when he decided , as he undoubtedly did , that any omission by the ambulance service was not relevant to the cause of death , I must refer to the submissions of Mr. Coghlan , counsel for the coroner . |
| 6 | Perhaps H. G. Wells made the right choice when he cast octopus-like animals in the role of intelligent alien invaders in The War of the Worlds . |
| 7 | So far , Intergraph is more than satisfied that it made the correct decision when it selected Chameleon . |
| 8 | Again , the TUC General Council made the same accusation when it met the Beveridge Committee seventeen years later : F.H . |
| 9 | Malcolm Smith , who runs the noted Jencra herd at Stoke on Trent , paid 7,500gn for Jim Goldie 's 17-month-old Epatant son , Goldie 's Globetrotter , while the suitably named Goldie 's Goldmine , another by the same sire , made the same amount when it sold in a private deal to David Dick of Mains of Throsk , Stirling , and Archie McGregor , Allanfauld , Kilsyth , after being turned out of the ring unsold at 7,200gn . |
| 10 | Nye ( 1984 ) made the same point when he observed that the agenda for examining the power of US firms in the 1980s was little different from that of the early 1970s , despite the relative loss of US power . |
| 11 | The resistance of Ulster was also linked to its business roots with such slogans as " Industrial Ulster is united " or " They mean business " , and Law made the same point when he described in Norwich a recent meeting that he had addressed in the Ulster Hall : |
| 12 | Ripon Grammar made the easiest progress when Wensleydale scratched . |
| 13 | Mr Payne , 48 , a Mid Glamorgan paramedic , made the grim discovery when he was called to a two-car smash at Deri , near Bargoed . |
| 14 | An electrician made the grim discovery when he went into the loft at Milton Keynes , Bucks . |
| 15 | Many amateur players fall into the trap of using the same club when chipping . |
| 16 | A new way of using the English language when you 're word processing is absolutely another world ! |
| 17 | When he started treatment , the positive supporting reaction in his foot was difficult to desensitize because he had learned to walk using the abnormal reaction when he was in the orthopaedic rehabilitation centre . |
| 18 | The Minister tabled the statutory instrument when the House was not sitting and has just delivered a speech lasting 40 minutes . |
| 19 | Public open days were planned to enable all who helped raise money to see the new unit when it was ready for use . |
| 20 | I only managed to see the second programme when still perhaps a little punch-drunk from over-exposure to Bournonville at the Copenhagen festival , but I relished the four examples of choreography by Mark Morris and Lar Lubovitch , particularly when they showed off Baryshnikov . |
| 21 | ‘ You 'll have to see the old man when he gets back . |
| 22 | Quickly slipping into a sleeveless straight shirt-waister dress of pink shantung , Laura was just fastening the last button when she heard the sound of the doorbell . |
| 23 | It only became the grandest villa when Henry Pease bought it and began work . |
| 24 | Who became the youngest MP when he won the Louth by-election in 1969 ? |
| 25 | Stuart had told me that Aj ( whose name is short for Arnold Junior , after the Head Forester of whom he became the spitting image when he first came to work at Clumber as a woodsman ten years ago at the age of sixteen ) was a dab hand with a tractor . |
| 26 | In addition , it must always make the prescribed disclosure when it does business with private customers in the UK falling within the foreign business carve-out ( see page 41 above ) . |
| 27 | ‘ Can you tell me how far it is to Karlovy Vary and Františkovy Láznë ? ’ she asked the male receptionist when she reached her hotel . |
| 28 | His parents asked the local headteacher when Sam could start school , and the answer ? |
| 29 | Although the Cut Saw weighs in at 3kg ( 6–1/2lb ) , it 's easy to control because you rarely need to support the entire tool when using it . |
| 30 | Well she 's only just joined the human race when she 's had a fag and a cup of coffee . |