Example sentences of "[to-vb] in the [noun] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | There used to be er , a lady that used to come in the cinema when I worked there , and she had a |
| 2 | Partly because those who served in garrisons had to be ready to serve in the field when required ( for a castle acted as a base where soldiers could remain when not in the field , and from which they could control the countryside around by mounted raids within a radius of , say , a dozen miles ) , partly because of an increasing difficulty in securing active support from the nobility and gentry for the war in France , English armies at the end of the war sometimes included a greater ratio of archers to men-at-arms than ever before , sometimes 7:1 or even 10:1 , rather than the more usual 3:1 under Henry V and the parity of archers to men-at-arms normally found in the second half of the fourteenth century . |
| 3 | This garment grew with the child , so she was still wearing it to play in the garden when she was four years old ! |
| 4 | It had yellow hair and it used to swim in the sea when we chucked sticks for it . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been given permission to swim in the pool when the family 's not using it . |
| 6 | The surface had just begun to shimmer in the light when Mrs Rosalia Alderley came out through the French windows of the ballroom and stopped , staring in thunderstruck amazement . |
| 7 | Yes it is nice it 's okay if you can do it in daylight , but artificial light is difficult and I used to sit in the car when Charlotte was asleep . |
| 8 | passenger , the driver 's brother , knew vehicle was uninsured. he consented to ride in the vehicle when , with another , he and the driver set out on a night 's drinking . |
| 9 | To hold the pound within its margins the system requires a member country to intervene in the markets when its currency diverges 75 per cent of the way to its permitted fluctuation margins , either side of the central rate . |
| 10 | It seems that other young men came to stay too — I suppose it must have been a very welcome extra source of income — and I understand that Great-Grandmother Tallentire was criticized for allowing young men to stay in the house when she had daughters . |
| 11 | She wo n't just stay in the car , she wo n't want to stay in the car when she wakes up cos that 's too boring . |
| 12 | ( Gene Hackman was to feature in the plays when they got to New York . ) |
| 13 | What is it that allows such belief to occur in the child when so much , to the observer , is unreal ? |