Example sentences of "[verb] when [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's the one who gets the wages for it while I have n't a lira to myself not even to buy a pair of stockings , stuck here in this gloomy hole day after day — and he goes out working , he goes out to work when according to the contract he 's not allowed , I should be allowed but not him . |
| 2 | The consumers ' hints and suggestions , communicated over considerable distance and thereby often greatly distorted when realized by the manufacturers , resulted in changes in the cloth , which in turn prompted further comments . |
| 3 | The actual casualties suffered by both the SAS and the LRDG were mainly caused by bombing or strafing when caught in the open desert . |
| 4 | I always use Langton watercolour paper , which I wash first so that no spots appear when laying on the colour . |
| 5 | I always use Langton watercolour paper , which I wash first so that no spots appear when laying on the colour . |
| 6 | Now those of us who 've been involved on the Moat Highfields sub committee will have a need to know that when we were faced with really serious and horrendous problems , we found when faced with the reality and a great deal of detailed information , that an extraordinary amount of three party cooperation was achieved . |
| 7 | This type of debate can only be resolved when looking at the functions in some detail . |
| 8 | The possible implications of this development are best considered when looking at the more general direction which the control on discretion is , and should be , taking . |
| 9 | The meaning of ‘ insolvent ’ has already been considered when dealing with the seller 's lien . |
| 10 | The descent into Dentdale from Newby Head is even more stimulating than the outward journey , new aspects of the valley being revealed when seen in the reverse direction , with wider and more distant landscapes coming into view . |
| 11 | When he does produce these propositions he does so through ironic positive politeness , more precisely through superficially observing the approbation maxim : Anderson 's irony here is much more successful than that which he uses when arguing with the captain in scene six ( where his ironic statements concerning human rights in Czechoslovakia actually prompt the captain to ask further awkward questions ( pp. 70 – 1 ) ) , because he exploits the potential ambiguity of the academic discourse appropriate to a lecture . |
| 12 | He knew what those two victims must have felt when tossed into the heat sink . |
| 13 | But , as so often happens when dealing with the United States , informal agreements reached with Presidents are not necessarily supported by Congress . |
| 14 | A good luncheon or supper dish — and very decorative looking when cut at the table , into the cross-slices of which Elizabeth Raffald notes that " the skin makes them look ribbed " . |
| 15 | It follows that , when reading the reports of studies such as this , it is essential to be clear about the choices that the researcher made when deciding on the population to be surveyed . |
| 16 | Rubber-based and liquid plastic paints also prevent free lime from escaping when painted over the entire surface of the concrete . |
| 17 | Elizabeth Thompson , secretary of Darlington Milk Buyers Company Ltd , who supply 33 dairymen in the town , said they had been only too happy to help when approached by the borough council . |
| 18 | The new Bradville Estate was supplied when built in the early 1930s , from the same source . |
| 19 | Do you remember when coming into the flat , do you remember who entered it first ? |
| 20 | In any such change , there are three states that must be dealt with : ( 1 ) the present state , which is things as they are ; ( 2 ) the future state , which is what the changed condition will be ; and ( 3 ) the transitional state , which is the one that exists when evolving from the present to the future — the state during which the actual changing takes place . |
| 21 | ‘ Journey of the Magi ’ , written in 1927 , contains not only material quoted in Eliot 's 1926 survey , ‘ Lancelot Andrewes ’ , and recollections from Eliot 's own life ( some of which he catalogued when reminiscing in The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism ) . |
| 22 | An alternative is a special posture that the prey adopts when approached by the predator , suddenly showing off its warning colours . |
| 23 | He had laughed when told about the ‘ devil group with lots of surplus young girls hanging around ’ . |
| 24 | All of this paled when compared with the crime of taking a position on ship-borne nuclear weapons , which displeased the administration . |
| 25 | He opened this and , from the darkness , picked up a long , narrow ladder , the type soldiers climb when scaling a castle wall , or a tiler might use when working on the roof of a house . |
| 26 | Glenda Grower gave Corbett Farraday the look old pros give when confronted by the naîvetés of fresh-faced amateurs . |
| 27 | They are also costly which is , perhaps , the major reason why they tend to be little used when compared with the cross-sectional , single survey . |
| 28 | This is not to use the term ‘ romantic ’ in the pejorative sense in which it must be used when speaking of the film made of The Happy Return , in which Lady Barbara , envisaged as a coy , magazine-cover blonde ( and without the hereditary Wellesley nose ) fluttered her eyelashes at Gregory Peck as an equally improbable Hornblower . |
| 29 | Both here and in Chapter 8 , the scientific notation ( 14 C ) will be used when referring to the isotope itself , and the word ‘ radiocarbon ’ when discussing the dating technique generally . |
| 30 | To meet the needs of the present , it seems to me that as much precision as possible is used when deciding on the application of a pesticide . |