Example sentences of "when [verb] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Knitmaster owner was in great difficulty when knitting the second side of her neck in Fair Isle . |
| 2 | This pattern is reversed when knitting the second wing . |
| 3 | When seen the next morning in hospital , Pamela said she had not cared whether she lived or died when she took the overdose , but had hoped that it would show her parents how upset she was feeling about her school work , and that it might also persuade them to change their attitudes to her boyfriend . |
| 4 | It would be equally so to deny it , especially when considering the first recording on the tape . |
| 5 | When considering the first age of party politics in England , it makes sense to treat the years 1660 – 1715 as a coherent whole . |
| 6 | Agreed that in the proceedings on the Criminal Justice Bill the Government should advise Parliament that the present was not an opportune time for abolishing capital punishment ; and took note that the Home Secretary would define the Government 's attitude towards this question when moving the Second Reading of the Bill in the House of Commons ; |
| 7 | So , when the 1971 British Lions stretched Fergie McCormick this way and that when winning the First Test on Mains ' home ground , the All Black selectors decided that McCormick had to go , and Mains went on to play the remaining three Tests of the first rubber that the Lions had won in New Zealand . |
| 8 | MICHAEL ROBERTS recorded his second consecutive century in this country when winning the last race on Power Shift at Folkestone yesterday and can take this season 's total beyond 100 at York this afternoon , writes Hyperion . |
| 9 | John Bums , President of the Local Government Board , when introducing the first legislation with ‘ town planning ’ in its title in 1909 declared : These objectives may seem happily optimistic when contrasted with subsequent achievements , but they serve to remind us of the tension that always exists in town planning between the engineers and the sociologists ( Goldsmith 1980:Ch. 7 ) . |