Example sentences of "when [noun prp] [vb -s] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's mildly encouraging now , though , when Tod looks at a woman in the street . |
| 2 | The only powers that control fate are the Gods , and so when Tamburlaine mentions in a conversation which he has with Theridamas that he controls his own fate , this implies that he believes he is a God : ‘ I hold the fates bound fast in iron chains , and with mine hand turn fortune 's wheel about ’ . |
| 3 | When Linda stands on a chair Linda is higher than Steven . |
| 4 | Love and politics clash when Maggie falls for a hard-hearted soldier . |
| 5 | When Josie dies in a car crash Roth feels relief . |
| 6 | And when Jesus appears to a young man , ‘ … he saw the Lord Jesus in the likeness of the Apostle Judas Thomas … the Lord said to him : ‘ I am not Judas who is also Thomas , I am his brother . ’ ’ |
| 7 | Since it is not easy to see a distinction between their characteristic properties and some essence from which they flow , one might be tempted to think that , when Locke speaks of a coincidence of their real and nominal essence , he means that the notion of a real essence does not really apply to modes . |
| 8 | When Sharon stands on a chair , Tracey is lower than Sharon . |
| 9 | ‘ It would still be nothing special , but when Linford retires in a couple of years there is going to be a big opening in the 100 . |
| 10 | ‘ It would still be nothing special but when Linford retires in a couple of years there is going to be a big opening in the 100 . |
| 11 | As PostScript files can take an eternity to process — especially when PostScript resides in a cartridge — I 'd increase it from 45 seconds to maybe 450 or more . |
| 12 | When EF lies in a Landau level ( Figure 4 ) , scattering is possible and the current flow comprises electrons with paths that are constantly modified at each collision . |
| 13 | Changing Places , published in 1975 , is set in 1969 ; when Zapp reappears in a later novel , Small World , set ten years later , he has changed his attitudes , in accordance with major shifts in the Zeitgeist . |
| 14 | When Milton goes to a big international show it is a different story . |
| 15 | When Howard leans on a gate , talking about the rottenness of the society he has rejected , his children are in frame as well , rather small in the background , playing tag next to his left ear . |
| 16 | When Macbeth returns in a trance , still grasping the bloody daggers , Lady Macbeth illustrates her strength by returning them to Duncan 's chamber . |