Example sentences of "when [noun] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | When Sunderland came to the Manor in the league in December less than 2,000 Weirsiders saw them lose 3-0 . |
2 | When Carver alighted outside the Hilton in Park Lane the limo drove past at speed . |
3 | The originality of the dress drew a gasp when Beatrice walked into the room , and since he did not dance he was content to watch her dance the tango with a number of admirers . |
4 | It is obviously too painful to talk about it — especially when fingers point in the direction of City Hall . |
5 | When Pascoe looked into the hallway , he saw Singer leaning against the door of his room , his back half-turned . |
6 | Even when Victoria came to the throne in 1837 only five places in England and Wales contained more than 100,000 people . |
7 | When Patrick came to the door of the aircraft he saw the flight of metal steps leading to the tarmac . |
8 | It explains the observed rises in the apc when income falls over the period of a trade cycle . |
9 | When Parliament met in the autumn of 1381 , the Speaker expressed the view that the troubles had been caused by abuses in government , notably by purveyance for the royal household and by the levy of taxation for the defence of the realm , particularly as this did not prevent the King 's enemies from raiding England . |
10 | It knew somehow that it belonged there , not here , and when thunder boomed in the sky it heard that thunder in its newly transmogrified body . |
11 | This packaging of living material into discrete vehicles became such a salient and dominant feature that , when biologists arrived on the scene and started asking questions about life , their questions were mostly about vehicles — individual organisms . |
12 | This problem reduces significantly when birds return to the country with the onset of spring and summer . |
13 | When birds feed in the mud , they take in the bacteria which paralyzes their legs and necks . |
14 | When Roe won for the first time at the Catalan Open in 1989 , it was predicted that he would become a regular winner on Tour . |
15 | It is said that when Christie moved into the new mill he took the machinery with him and this must have included the scribbler and carder. with the " Devondale " piercing machine , the slubbing Billy and spinning Jennys . |
16 | When Philippa arrived outside the pub she almost felt ashamed of her approval and excitement and admiration of the evening before . |
17 | When Nicandra came into the morning room , the air was stilled for a moment . |
18 | In particular , when de-activation occurs on the basis of contextual mismatches , less sensory information is therefore needed for a single word candidate to emerge . |
19 | A little square woman — to be identified when sanity returned as the doctor 's wife came to change my bedding and cleanse me regularly . |
20 | The voices grew even lower , then , when money came into the question . |
21 | They went to bed and when Lavinia woke in the night it was Timothy Gedge she thought of , not her lost child . |
22 | It was just after nine the following night , rain pounding in from the Atlantic , when Asa stood in the control tower at Laville and watched the Dornier take off . |
23 | When Steiner went into the chapel that evening he was escorted by Lieutenant Benson and a police corporal . |
24 | Only when Marianne swept from the room did she allow herself to collapse into a chair , closing her eyes and rubbing her fingers over her forehead . |
25 | David as a child ‘ sustained my own idea ’ of Roderick Random , the scapegrace selfish hero of this picaresque novel , ‘ for a month at a stretch ’ , could see Roderick 's faithful servant Strap at the wicket of Blunderstone church , and when Micawber went to the King 's Bench , remembered Roderick 's imprisonment for debt ( chap . |
26 | When Pringle swung across the line to be lbw , England had done well in the conditions to score 203 . |
27 | When Germans appeared on the west dockside , Bob Burtenshaw — still humming ‘ There 'll always be an England … ’ ran at them firing his pistol , despite his wounds . |
28 | When ions floating in the water happen to bump into the hard surface of the crystal , they tend to stick . |
29 | And when racism exploded in the eighteenth century — to justify slavery — it wiped out any acknowledgement of African achievements . |
30 | When Bernard went to the canteen there was a stir , a breath of recognition . |