Example sentences of "[to-vb] on the [noun] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | Broadcasters are quick to jump on the Press when they feel public opinion is that the papers have Gone Too Far . |
| 2 | He raised his fist and was about to hammer on the door when he heard sounds . |
| 3 | The whole exchange had been conducted in low tones so that they could not be overheard , but the bar was empty ; even the landlord had found business elsewhere and Wycliffe had to rap on the counter when he went to replenish their glasses . |
| 4 | Most families in a village like this expect their children to work on the farm when they get older , but in this case it was different . |
| 5 | In the beginning , much of this effort was used to create music to play on the air when the station 's needletime was used up . |
| 6 | Lorna Marsh initially turned down the chance to go on the trip when she found out that Bingo The Clown would be joining them . |
| 7 | Marie wanted to go on the Pill when she was fifteen : |
| 8 | It has peacocks , which like to sit on the seats when visitors are scarce , a compound with a few docile wild animals in , a small lake , a free-standing part of a Gothic cloister from the ruined abbey of Saint-Sever-de-Rustan which was removed and re-erected here , and , if you can find them among the shrubbery , busts of two French poets , one of whom was born in the town while the other went to school here : the native was the arch Romantic Théophile Gautier , whose bust in the Jar din Massey was sculpted by his exotic daughter Judith , the outsider Jules Laforgue , the strange , consumptive young poet who so influenced T. S. Eliot and died at twenty-seven . |
| 9 | Am I going to have to live on the street when I get out ? |
| 10 | I failed to turn on the light when the sky grew dark and heavy . |
| 11 | No one can anticipate the precise skills that workers will need to succeed on the job when information processing , knowhow , and creativity are the value added . |
| 12 | Not that ‘ feeders do not tempt big barbel , but they are extremely cumbersome objects to have on the line when playing these powerful fish in weedy or otherwise snaggy areas . |
| 13 | The council says it would welcome the chance to expand on the submission when the inquiry takes oral evidence . |
| 14 | In these circumstances , it was suggested that the auditors should have been aware that Fidelity was vulnerable to a takeover bid and that any possible bidder such as Caparo would be likely to rely on the accounts when deciding whether a bid should be made and that loss would be suffered by such a bidder if the accounts were inaccurate . |
| 15 | Mr Teicher claims to have argued well before Iran 's Islamic revolution that it was folly to rely on the shah when his regime was collapsing from within . |