Example sentences of "[adj] when they [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Durham , by that reckoning , got it all wrong when they signed a batsman as their overseas player in the knowledge that he would be available for only 3½ months of the five-month season . |
| 2 | It was already dark when they heard a sudden , hurried knock at the door downstairs . |
| 3 | At the end of March they were delighted when they received a letter saying they had been shortlisted to take part . |
| 4 | Many of our competitors have an ‘ under ten items ’ till , and many of our customers are confused when they have a shopping trolley . |
| 5 | My advice is : avoid mefloquine , advise patients to take chloroquine , and add Paludrine when they reach a country where it is obtainable . |
| 6 | They know about the unauthorized release of personal data , they have procedures to try and protect data , but there is a commercial imperative to keep customers happy when they have a problem with their credit card . |
| 7 | That point applies to nurses at the basic level , but it is even more important when they become a more valuable resource after their post-basic education has given them the ability to prescribe . |
| 8 | Few could at this stage afford to be as choosy as Fox Milton & Co Ltd when they sacked a new dealer on the grounds that he was dealing with his old Chartwell clients , so enraging Chartwell Securities . " |
| 9 | Which is why it is so impressive when they achieve a balance at the end : it becomes a truly heroic achievement . ’ |
| 10 | One of the French girls at her Swiss boarding school had told her that boys liked a girl to have a ‘ poitrine ’ and they became very excited when they touched a girl 's breast ; this , she had maintained , explained the fashion for dresses which made a girl look flat-chested — so that as many as possible would not inflame men 's passions and would thereby remain virgins . |
| 11 | ‘ People are bound to get excited when they see a ten-million-ton starship trying to fly down the street . ’ |
| 12 | Broadly , practices , propositions , beliefs , and so forth , are ideological when they present a state of affairs in such a way as to render it attractive or self-evident to a specific audience . |