Example sentences of "when [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because the cells move very slowly the process is best seen when speeded up in a time-lapse film . |
| 2 | ‘ We are not playing kick and rush , ’ he insisted when driving out to a friend 's hotel in the Derwent Valley below Consett , pausing now and then to savour the uncluttered Durham landscape , his heart for ever in the North-east of England . |
| 3 | Most of such work was unsuitable for operating in winter when unemployment was highest and when carried out with an untrained labour force it was expensive or inefficient , and failed to attract the temporarily unemployed artisans for whom it was intended . |
| 4 | These receptors wrongly interpret the increased return of blood when lying down as a sign that excess blood volume has caused the blood vessels to become ‘ overfull ’ and so the kidney is instructed to remove the excess water and salts . |
| 5 | Apart from an uncharacteristic first fence fall at Ascot on his third start , the only other time he was beaten was when going down by a half length to Minnehoma in the Sun Alliance Chasethe novices Gold Cup . |
| 6 | I normally make a note of the palette number and list the yarn names , along with the manufacturers ' colour names or numbers for each of the eight colours , in a book and find this is a great help when going back to a palette later , or when looking for a palette containing certain yarn colours . |
| 7 | Mason weighed in at 17st 103 4 lb for Biggs , heavier by 10lb than ever before , and attributes this to a groin injury sustained when turning out in a charity football match . |
| 8 | The burgesses of the ‘ husband town ’ allocated such divisions on behalf of the Crown , the arable land being measured to assess its user 's liability for military service : a ‘ husbandland ’ was the area of ploughland sufficient to provide a man with a living that could afford him a horse and harness when called on in a Border emergency . |
| 9 | We have special spaces large enough to allow necessary manoeuvres with a wheelchair when getting out of a car , without fear of damaging neighbouring vehicles , and they 're closer to the shops . |
| 10 | Higher shutter speeds , variable up to unc of a second or beyond , are now available on camcorders to give better definition of fast action when played back on a VCR with matching replay facilities . |
| 11 | When set up as a Novell 3.11 file server the DC-2031 cached IDE host card only really made its presence felt on the 128Kb Sequential Read Test , improving performance by about 15 per cent . |
| 12 | Recently my wife and I had to travel from Holyhead to Aberystwyth when coming back from a funeral in Ireland . |
| 13 | But he showed much improved form when stepped up to a mile and three quarters , and is definitely worth opposing over this trip at such a short price . |
| 14 | Although it is vital not to get too high , there is no advantage trying to fly very close to the ground , except perhaps when taking off from a very short field . |
| 15 | Conner , Seagate , Western Digital , Mitsubishi , Quantum and NEC are names to look for when poking around inside a machine , or if you 're thinking about upgrading your hard disk . |
| 16 | When the bus started , they all crossed themselves , as I had seen nuns do in Ireland when setting out on a journey , however short . |
| 17 | By this time , the tigress must have come to know the particular scent , as well as stance , of her hunter and probably recognized him , even when dressed up as an Indian woman . |
| 18 | Normally a modest stream , it occasionally becomes a torrent after a downpour and , when held up by a high tide-can give rise to flooding in the lower part of the town as , spectacularly , in 1914 and 1935 . |