Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also went there when I had only the vaguest knowledge of what I wanted . |
| 2 | When I came home the sun was shining brilliantly and warmly into the front of the house so I first of all had a read about the similar groups and then had a quick and short snooze till the phone rang and I began work on the laptop in the sunshine , as the battery capacity lasts about an hour or so . |
| 3 | We arrived quite late on our first night and , when I went downstairs the next morning the waitress showed us to our table and said : ‘ Good morning , I think you were arriving at eleven o'clock last night . ’ |
| 4 | anorexic , I thought my mum was anorexic when I went home the other day . |
| 5 | Oh I , when I , when I went there the next morning I had to tell all in front of the class and tell all the kids . |
| 6 | You questioned Mr Mayor at the city board when I put forward the proposal to increase the er turnover figure from three percent to four percent . |
| 7 | Clearly , the hon. Gentleman was not listening a few moments ago when I quoted directly the Governor of the Bank of England saying that the conditions necessary to underpin a sustained recovery are now in place . |
| 8 | To improve the quality of our work , these are erm , when I say though the current position is the technical quality is variable , these this assessment comes from internal reviews which are carried out and we have annual quality control reviews in all parts of the of the practice and the answers that have been come back coming back from those quality control reviews have and they 're pretty strict reviews it seems , strictly in accordance with the book , strictly in accordance with all the reg rules and regulations and , so if one has deviated from those and it 's hardly surprising how very high standards B S five seven five O would have , be quite easy to obtain in most of our practice areas , so it 's hardly surprising that there will be occasions when we do n't actually er come up with ten out of ten on a on an assignment . |
| 9 | When you do all the sums and move all the money from pocket to pocket it looks as if there is an increase of between 2 to 2.5 per cent and that is almost the difference between the previous inflation forecast of 3.5 per cent and the present inflation forecast of 5.75 per cent . |
| 10 | When you wipe away the spectre of communal singalongs and seriously hamfisted , guitar-drenched versions of these songs in their live incarnation from your eyes , what 's left — on the supercool tracks , at least — are lessons in intimacy , humanistic notions of caring and something approaching religious rapture ( the old adage , ‘ Do good , for the good you do will live after you ’ applies ) . |
| 11 | Nobody comforted her , for weeping was not necessary , but it was on the other hand permissible , and when she got home the aunts and uncles were kind to her and offered her cups of tea . |
| 12 | But when she got there the ferryman was not around . |
| 13 | Lydia realised this afresh when she came downstairs the following morning . |
| 14 | In her imagination , when she came home the sun would be shining . |
| 15 | When she did so the church was a blur of colours and streakings of light . |
| 16 | ‘ Open your eyes , ’ he commanded huskily , and when she did so the look on his face set her blood racing . |
| 17 | When she tried again the door gave suddenly as if it had decided of itself to let her in . |
| 18 | Apparently we had made so much noise when we returned separately the night before that we had wakened everyone and we were being thrown out . |
| 19 | When we pass away the direct line will end . ’ |
| 20 | Only in very unusual situations do we speak with fixed , unvarying pitch , and when we speak normally the pitch of our voice is constantly changing . |
| 21 | When we got there the street was crowded with people who must have come from all parts of the City . |
| 22 | When we got there the chucker-out told us to go in quickly because the film had started . |
| 23 | When we got there the cranes had already left but the marsh still resounded with the calls of waders , most of them now looking after young . |
| 24 | The reasons essentially have to do with the relevance of IQ to creativity and are exposed when we compare both the similarities and the differences between Cox 's historical figures and Terman 's gifted children . |
| 25 | When we investigate experimentally the " stuff of the world it never tells lies , it never changes the rules in the course of play . |
| 26 | The meaning of the word ‘ immediate ’ is likely to give rise to dispute in the courts , but it may be assumed that if , for example , a man threatens a woman that unless she has sexual intercourse with him , he will violently assault her in the presence of her children when they return home the following day , this will not be rape under the Committee 's proposals . |
| 27 | Note that unc when an only when A contains at least one element which is not in B. We says sets A and B are equal , and write A = B , when and only when they contain precisely the same members . |
| 28 | One of the most fascinating scientific experiments of recent years showed that when people ate meals at a rapid rate they became hungry again more quickly than when they ate precisely the same size of meal at a slower rate . |
| 29 | Since nineteen eighty two when they took away the related earnings from the unemployment benefit they have introduced a further nine retrograde steps to the plight of the unemployed and now the proposals as has already been pointed out they now have a look , because there 's a fifty billion pound shortfall at how they can best tackle the sick and make them pay , as well as people who are struggling to keep a roof over their head . |
| 30 | When they cut away the paper at the back of the frame it proved to be a Böcklin , but a print cut from a magazine , the original being in Budapest . |