Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The game ends when everyone finds the hiding place . |
| 2 | When I turn the light off , the only thing is , where the switch is |
| 3 | ‘ Nothing happens when I turn the key . |
| 4 | When I turn the car and drive past the house , on my way to the main road , I can see Susan drawing the curtains in the bedroom , shutting out the street . |
| 5 | When I ran the Alliance of Small Firms , we had regular visitors every year sponsored by the Government of Korea , who wined and dined small business men and tried to persuade them to take their work to Korea to be done . |
| 6 | I think I 'd been expecting something good when I reach the village — a bed for the night , perhaps — but the place was deserted . |
| 7 | When I reach the end of Jamie 's street I pause at the corner . |
| 8 | When I reach the passenger window I knock on it . |
| 9 | I 'm gon na need a pension when I reach the age of sixty , sixty five I recommend that we support this motion and vigorously campaign for pensions for everybody on an equal status . |
| 10 | ‘ When I introduce the film this evening you must say a few words too , ’ I said , and he agreed . |
| 11 | Attached to the bottom of the betalite , which is encased in a plastic tube for protection , is a length of braided terylene tied at the other end to my back rod-rest , so that when I strike the indicator pulls off and drops to the ground . |
| 12 | When I parked the car at Woodside , I noticed the lights were on in the apartment next to mine . |
| 13 | I thought that I had finished third , but when I studied the television slow-motion replay on the stadium scoreboard I could see that in fact Ray had won the bronze medal . |
| 14 | ‘ I was 17 years old when I committed the offence for which I was sentenced to die , and I did n't even start thinking and caring about my life until I was at least 20 . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It had always been her ambition to go to the Holy Land and so when I arranged the trip I told her ‘ Right , now you 're going ’ . |
| 16 | Now , I can hold my liquor as well as the next man , so it is ludicrous to suggest that when I reversed the club van into the tea hut I was under the influence . |
| 17 | ‘ When I realised the ring had probably gone back to England that was one of the first things I checked . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I did n't leave no mud when I cleaned the floor yesterday , ’ said Mary . |
| 19 | Only when I ordered the boatman to take us to Syon did my master break free of his reverie . |
| 20 | I remember thinking that the soldier had a face now , and though his head remained slobbering in her breast when I plunged the blade through the thick khaki , I saw the sudden sharp pain jolt through his eyes . |
| 21 | The accused , who pleaded guilty , said , ‘ I felt the devil and his horns on my head when I plunged the knife through his heart . ’ |
| 22 | The woman wore a dress that seemed very short when I recalled the picture through the next few years : broad shoulders , a straight skirt that hung the way it did — I know now — because it had some rayon in it . |
| 23 | ‘ You know , that was the best time of my life , when I drove the Truck , ’ said Angalo dreamily . |
| 24 | ‘ What a shock for you when I accepted the position , ’ Maria snapped . |
| 25 | He said er we had a big hoo hah he said er I borrowed some money off him he said some time ago to do something with and I had n't got the money he said and when I sold the plot of land he said I paid him back what I owed him cos borrow the money . |
| 26 | ‘ When I received the OBE in 1970 I thought that was more than enough , so that is what makes this such a bonus . ’ |
| 27 | . And nine times out of ten when I ask the congregation whether your church is bigger now than it was when it was founded nine times out of ten the congregation say , it is smaller now than when it was founded . |
| 28 | I put in when I planted the garden because I thought that would be useful to know the next year . |
| 29 | This was the first occasion when I experienced the disillusion of actually seeing a place I had come to love through a poem — that had been , in Drinkwater 's phrase , ‘ lissom in a dream ’ . |
| 30 | When I display the document I want to use fonts to make the logical objects look different ’ . |