Example sentences of "[noun pl] when [pron] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neighbours also provided a missing ingredient in our diet of soaps when it became a five-times- a-week fixture back in 1988 . |
| 2 | ( This is a word used by Scottish kids when they wanted a game , or activity halted . |
| 3 | Welcome back : Still to come on Central South … the problems encountered by a group of abseilers when they tackled a six hundred foot power station chimney . |
| 4 | DONEGALL eased their relegation worries when they had a fairly comfortable 11–9 win over North Dublin in Division One of the National Water Polo League at the Grove pool today . |
| 5 | So I asked them in the lodge like do n't do any damage and Tom was in e he gave them a good lecture so and the lads in the lodge said , Well look you tell them as well not to do this attitude and perhaps you 've seen it on these flumes when they saw a crowd that was there they were changing gear with the Land Rover and through you know like anybody in the way you 'd be underneath . |
| 6 | Smokers screw up their eyes and lips when they puff a cigarette and this can surely lead to more wrinkles . |
| 7 | PROFESSIONAL footballers talked about their personal goals when they gave a talk on physical fitness to an Essex joggers ' club . |
| 8 | Ken playing Rodney , Hugh Paddick as Charles , two frightfully , frightfully Mayfair types , doing ridiculous things together like dressing up as red Indians when they took a canoeing holiday . |
| 9 | How much more quickly does my hon. Friend think that we might achieve a balance between exports and imports when we introduce a minimum wage , increase taxes on investment , increase personal taxes and allow the trade unions to ride rough shod once again ? |
| 10 | Frank and Danielle cut no corners when they converted a 19th-century lighthouse into a guest house |
| 11 | ( Try thinking about your finger movements when you play a well-known tune on a keyboard — you make more mistakes than if you let your fingers do the thinking . ) |
| 12 | Rank had funded his forays into production on the back of profits accruing from the exhibition of US pictures but , instead of standing firm with the American companies when they announced a boycott of British screens , he decided to boost his own company 's production . |
| 13 | The public relations branch of the company they worked for had several fits when they discovered an entry in the city directory that read Maxted , Sally — Dressmaker . |
| 14 | Where do you close off the possibilities when you write a script ? |
| 15 | Yet Coriolan seems to criticize such ideas when they produce an external show ( ‘ 5,800,000 rifles and carbines ’ ) which may demonstrate force and flourish , yet has no central Word behind it . |
| 16 | But I mean as any adoptive parent here will tell you , the strains when you adopt a child , or adopt children , very disturbed children are much worse ! |
| 17 | So easy to relax and forget your troubles when you had a glass of their malt in your hand … . |
| 18 | She had hardly settled herself against the pillows and let her thickened lids slide back over her aching eyeballs when she heard a knock on the door . |
| 19 | Ninth-century writers when they wanted a metaphor ( and a paradigm ) for the system at work invoked the familia : the patriarchal household , the big house ( as Dhuoda called it ) : — the palace . |
| 20 | As a boy , he had liked to scrape around in the fields ; he had eavesdropped when the whereabouts of discoveries were discussed , and walked with the farmers when they ploughed an old olive grove to turn it over to fruit trees . |
| 21 | More interestingly , the company is also to begin casting its nets in other waters when it introduces a new range of productivity tools under the name of Deskworks , in June , something it has talked about for ages . |
| 22 | FREE R.S.P.C.A. PRINTS WHEN YOU OPEN A STANDING ORDER ACCOUNT |
| 23 | He agreed the team had infringed the defendants ' rights when they wrote a book on the case . |
| 24 | This unit 's main aims are to inform pupils of their rights when they buy an item and what they can do should that item be defective in any way . |
| 25 | MALONE begin the defence of the Ulster Senior Cup title amid a host of problems when they undertake a repeat of last year 's final against North at Ormeau . |
| 26 | Another clue is provided by the fact that the water surface curves when it meets an object . |
| 27 | Two known meetings have so far taken place between both party leaders , with a whirlwind of protest from unionists when they issued a joint statement before the elections , while denying it reflected any form of electoral pact . |
| 28 | Many people wish to see police officers when they attend a police station . |
| 29 | He said his Labour counterparts had earlier ignored similar advice from officers when they approved a development consisting of hundreds of houses on a green field site . |
| 30 | Simply observing vervets rush into trees when somebody gives a tonal call does not guarantee that it was the call that did it . |