Example sentences of "when [indef pn] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes the recogniser gives no candidate letter when nothing matches in the Freeman vector database ( section 3.4.1 and section 5.2.6 ) , and in such situations a ‘ wild card ’ algorithm is implemented to attempt to fill such blank letter positions ( shown as * below ) by searching in the word look-up tree . |
| 2 | ‘ I was in a difficult situation when someone passed on the news Boro had won . |
| 3 | Thus when someone hears of the death of someone they are close to the reaction is , ‘ But it ca n't be true . ’ |
| 4 | Dorothy waited patiently and had her moment of triumph when someone went into the back of his car at a traffic light — clearly his fault for not getting a move on quicker . |
| 5 | When someone came into the room he realised he had gone out in a sweet unconscious . |
| 6 | How many t I mean er how many times has have you have you had have you had have you had problems with people you know when you told me about w that incident when someone came to the door and took your r took your rent off you ? |
| 7 | If she ever saw her , she thought worriedly ; she always seemed to be rushing off somewhere — and then she jumped when someone tapped on the door . |
| 8 | She was hunting through her bag when someone tapped at the door . |
| 9 | Lindsey was putting the finishing touches to her notes when someone tapped at the door and a dark-haired girl popped her head round . |
| 10 | Lindsey was clearing her desk when someone tapped at the door . |
| 11 | If anybody sneezes all hell breaks loose , she 's petrified of traffic and when someone comes into the house she sits on the bed and shakes . |
| 12 | Only the doctor who attended the last illness is required to certify when someone dies in the hospital and a post mortem has been carried out and the results known to the doctor . |
| 13 | So when someone emerged from the scrum of drivers meeting various flights and waved a sign in our face , I sort of pushed him away . |
| 14 | All I had to do was squeeze the button when someone emerged from the tower . |
| 15 | Two floors above , Jude heard what she took to be a domestic argument , and not wanting somebody else 's marital strife to sour her fine mood , was crossing to turn up the soul song on the turntable when somebody knocked on the door . |
| 16 | Well no , voting is when somebody goes to the polling booth they have to weigh all the pro 's and cons of all the information that they 've been told . |
| 17 | Supposing then that there was water with bloodstain in it , when somebody went to the toilet , urine , pass their urine , where , where would the damage be then do you think ? |
| 18 | I was about ready to leave when somebody leaned on the doorbell . |
| 19 | Just past the hour Suker , their only effective forward , worked his way to the left-hand byline and shrugged disconsolately when nobody ran through the middle to meet his pass . |
| 20 | There will be a tendency , when everything comes from the computer , you hear it already , ‘ oh it was the computer ’ , and that , I think , we want to try to change as quickly as possible . |
| 21 | ‘ When one thinks of the number of miserably displaced children from broken homes who 've been given a sense of purpose by the Pony Club ’ Sukey was saying , then , lowering her voice , ‘ take Perdita Macleod . |
| 22 | I lived in the book , as — in your others : I liked particularly Isabella and Evalie , and their gay early middle age — how comforting , too , to be with people who find ‘ the Change ’ such fun , when one thinks of the depressing nonsense that most people make out of it … . |
| 23 | This lack is astonishing when one thinks of the innumerable ancient towns of England that richly deserve such a study . |
| 24 | This is all the more significant when one thinks of the nature mysticism that was so common in every variety of ancient paganism . |
| 25 | Someone must be doing their housekeeping rather better at those hospitals , especially when one thinks of the help the Memorial Hospital gets from the WRVS and the Friends of the Hospital who raise a good deal of money and have done so for many years . |
| 26 | Of course , America has always been highly influential , but when one thinks of the Rolling Stones and Beatles erm and what have you in the sixties and seventies , and how much it has influenced Continental light music , not light music but popular culture , it is incredible . |
| 27 | Alternatively , during a spell of prolonged cold weather when one fears for the safety of the fish , a hole can be made in the ice by placing a pan of boiling water on the surface and allowing this to melt through . |
| 28 | When one rolled along the ground he picked it up and stood it on its end to stop it rolling . |
| 29 | When one hears of the hardships which could be caused to the high salaried , then surely in this country which claims to be Christian , we face not a political problem , but a moral one . |
| 30 | There are also the foreseeable difficulties that emerge when one takes as the basis for study the concepts of ‘ normal ’ and ‘ typical ’ children . |