Example sentences of "[prep] when [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had experienced this telescoping of time before when working twenty hours a day at the beginning of a murder investigation , but the slowness of passing time still came as a shock : Nicola Sharpe had been stabbed to death less than forty-eight hours before . |
| 2 | A psychiatrist I spoke to when researching this book advised a list method : when you wake up , if you feel depressed or lonely , write down all the positive things about your life . |
| 3 | Her performance — particularly in response to questions — was not what Derek was used to when viewing such events . |
| 4 | Reception staff at hotels based in cities and large towns may have to persuade unwanted persons loitering in the reception lounge to move on and leave the hotel ; the right to refuse service to persons unfit to be received is often the authority relied on when taking such actions . |
| 5 | Some of the textured pavement and warning tiles did not function well and some caused difficulties for the non-handicapped , as when snagging high heels . |
| 6 | What should you look for when buying dried fruit ? |
| 7 | Such changes may well alter what appeared to be the constant structure of the economy itself , and these changes also have to be allowed for when evaluating different policies . |
| 8 | Julie Byford , who manages the financial services team at the recruitment agency Badenoch & Clark , cites another quality that employers look for when recruiting corporate financiers . |