Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb base] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I 'm you know that that could go this afternoon when I go to a couple of other appointments . |
| 2 | No but the trouble is when I go on a diet the first place I |
| 3 | But I really do n't mind when I think with a grin |
| 4 | IT 'S ONLY WHEN YOU COME TO A CLUB LIKE THIS THAT YOU APPRECIATE WHAT THE GAME OF FOOTBALL IS ALL ABOUT ’ |
| 5 | been running for about half an hour or so , you know when you come to a junction flicking on and off . |
| 6 | Success is when you relax in an armchair on Friday evening , have a drink with your partner and forget about work for the weekend . |
| 7 | He gave me a sudden grin , purple mouth full of little , ivory bits like when you cut into a pomegranate and he was gone . |
| 8 | So you know when you get in a meeting sometimes you 've got a point of view on an agenda item and you think how where am I gon na get support for for my point of view on the meeting ? |
| 9 | You know how it is on ferries — you get a bit disoriented , you never know if you 're on A deck or B deck , or which bit of the outside you 're getting to when you go through a door — the front , the stern , or the sides . |
| 10 | You know when you go on a swing when you 're a child — one of those municipal swings . |
| 11 | It is best to get some ring practice at the smaller classes and match meetings and iron out all problems ready for the big day when you go to a Championship Show . |
| 12 | He had erm you know whe when you go in a caravan and yo you you you 're towing weight are n't you ? |
| 13 | One context in which it makes a difference is when you refer to a text by page or line number ; different versions are often different in this respect , so the least you should do is tell your reader which edition you are referring to ( which publisher , editor , etc . ) . |
| 14 | In the case of a registered title there 's one occasion , as mentioned above , when you make a land charges search , and that 's when you act for a mortgagee . |
| 15 | Shops in town do n't want to know when you ask for a toilet . |
| 16 | In fact , the atom is nothing like this ( for example , electrons are likely to be nothing more than ‘ confluences of probability waves ’ — in other words , totally incomprehensible in everyday terms ) , yet what do you think of when you think of an atom ? |
| 17 | That brass ring at her neck , attached to the zip all the way down that dress , like the ring you hold on to when you leap from a plane , plunging in free fall till you dare no more , then you pull the ring down , down and float in airy freedom , master of all you survey . |
| 18 | I swear they 're so loud it 's like it 's like you know when you kick through a big pile |
| 19 | Another , from the harbour to St Juliot 's Church through the delightful Valency Valley ( where Thomas Hardy courted his Emma ) , is particularly lovely in spring , when you tread upon a carpet of bluebells and primroses . |
| 20 | Well that 's exactly what you 're doing when you sleep on a Sherpa Underblanket made from pure New Zealand Long Tufted lambswool . |
| 21 | 1 comb ( for moment when you look into a magnificent eighteenth-century 18′ x 18′ mirror and suddenly realise you 're letting the whole place down with your unkempt hair ) |
| 22 | He loves the dreamy moment when you surface from a nap . |
| 23 | Irritation can also be caused by inflammation such as when we suffer from a cold or allergy . |
| 24 | He asks in one of his papers , ‘ The Place Where We Live ’ : ‘ What are we doing when we listen to a Beethoven symphony or when a child is playing ? ’ |
| 25 | Every so often , we are startled , such as when we read of an expatriate black South African who longs for apartheid : ‘ At least in South Africa I knew what I was fighting against . |
| 26 | Individuals can resent their own ideas being absorbed or submerged by other people 's , just as some of us do when we work in a group . |
| 27 | First of all it 's a against the law but after that these youngsters quite often do n't know what they 're doing when they get into a car and they are lethal |
| 28 | And , of course , they — the tumbril was standing in the cart-shed there with the back-chains hanging , d'ye see , fixed on each shaf , just like they do when they go on a horse . |
| 29 | CELTIC aim to rewind the tape and produce an action replay at Parkhead tonight when they bid for a place in the third round of a European competition for the first time in nine years . |
| 30 | Oh , apart from when they ask for a ‘ tad ’ more/less bass in the drum monitors . |