Example sentences of "when [indef pn] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the rime when everyone had a siesta and for a few hours the village was virtually dead . |
| 2 | The game ends when everyone finds the hiding place . |
| 3 | Day will never dawn when everyone has a car — not a free choice in his ( Kimber 's ) case ( wife 's job moved ) |
| 4 | When someone asks a government for bloodwealth , they not only threaten bloodshed if it is not forthcoming , but do so in an idiom which denies the government 's claim to superiority , puts it on an equal footing , treats it as just another tribe . |
| 5 | Individual deterrence occurs when someone commits a crime , is punished for it , and finds the punishment so unpleasant or frightening that the offence is never repeated for fear of more of the same or worse . |
| 6 | ‘ When someone loses a packet , they just creep silently away . ’ |
| 7 | She is like a mechanical musical doll that will perform a ponderous dance when someone turns the dial . |
| 8 | There was a lot of laughter , not the least when someone asked the whereabouts of Alan and Joy , and I said that Alan had gone to be induced ! |
| 9 | Mother-of-three Dawn Ryan , of Wye Street , said : ‘ My daughter was knocked out when someone dropped a door on her head . |
| 10 | When someone eats a snack while mentally absorbed in other things — perhaps a mother grabbing her own meal in between attempts to coax food down a baby , or a viewer eating a TV snack while totally involved in the latest beastly plots of ‘ J.R . ’ |
| 11 | When someone Takes the Side of the Other they may not be developing something totally novel , in the sense that the classic experimental subject , who shows attitude-change , incorporates a totally new piece of information . |
| 12 | That photographic plates stored away uninspected at the end of an experiment only acquire a definite image when someone opens the drawer to have a look at them ? |
| 13 | You can derive an enormous amount of satisfaction from restoring old frames and returning them to their former glory , and it is astonishing the number of attractive frames that are discarded when someone changes the colour scheme of their home or sorts through their attic and throws out something that is battered but still beautiful . |
| 14 | When someone gets a virus and becomes ill , the helper cells kill off the virus and usually they get better . |
| 15 | When someone shouted an instruction to run , he had panicked . |
| 16 | It is considered bad manners for reception staff to address a visitor from a sitting position ; they should always rise and be attentive when someone approaches the counter . |
| 17 | The Sharrock family know they 've had a lucky escape ; any one or all of them could have been injured , or even killed , when someone threw a brick at their car from an overhead footbridge . |
| 18 | It was spoiled when someone threw a glass on to the stage , stopping the band from playing an encore . |
| 19 | But when someone puts an arm around them and asks them how they are , they are bewildered . |
| 20 | And that is about what happens when someone leaves a job of their own accord . |
| 21 | So what happens when someone leaves a job of their own accord , what happens to their unemployment benefit . |
| 22 | However , when someone leaves the United Kingdom one must think in terms of both rules . |
| 23 | On the other hand , there may be moments of real illumination and discovery , when someone makes a comment that springs from a quite different frame of reference from one 's own . |
| 24 | When someone notices the Chancellor 's announcement of a tax cut that is a perception ; when they approve or disapprove , that is an attitude . |
| 25 | A lazy git , he awoke from hundreds of years of slumber when someone built a castle on his resting place ( I wonder if that 'd work with Corky ? ) . |
| 26 | That 's what you get when someone throws the pans at you . |
| 27 | The illusion was shattered when someone turned the conversation with an interjection , laying out the assumptions of the speaker , imposing others which seemed as good or better . |
| 28 | In piecing it together afterwards the thing began to go wrong when somebody asked the Butcher was he going to the ‘ do ’ in the Bank . |
| 29 | ‘ When somebody takes an interest in them — they respond . |
| 30 | I opened a bottle of wine , I know this is a very strange question , but when somebody brings a bottle of wine , do you open that first , or do you open ? |