Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [verb] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when I t when I got on a Friday and and paid me wages over to me Mum , which was natural for you to do , I always got th thre three pennies back . |
| 2 | I like to understand the meanings of words and always refer to a dictionary when I come on a new word . |
| 3 | ‘ The guides claimed to have taken us to the edge of the Sahara but when I looked on a map it was the Atlas mountains , the bastards . ’ |
| 4 | Cos they 're going flat out when they 're like that , it 's not like you gon na say like , when you go on a , like overtake mode , when you 're like that , they are flat out down the straight , all you go to get a out . |
| 5 | So instead of ringing each other up on the telephone we spoke to each other over the C.B. as you do n't have to pay each time you speak as when you speak on a C.B. your words travel with Radio waves and when you speak on a telephone your words travel down wires . |
| 6 | So instead of ringing each other up on the telephone we spoke to each other over the C.B. as you do n't have to pay each time you speak as when you speak on a C.B. your words travel with Radio waves and when you speak on a telephone your words travel down wires . |
| 7 | This makes it easier to lean your weight into the turn and it is even more exaggerated when you turn on a wave face . |
| 8 | On the rare occasions when you stumble on a pub whose ‘ chef ’ has qualifications beyond O-level microwaving , the surprise is so pleasant that you are guaranteed a feel-good eating experience that few established restaurants can match . |
| 9 | He will admit , however , that one should ‘ always stand up when you try on a hat — never sit down . |
| 10 | When you try on a pair of boots , push your foot forward into the boot until it can go no further , then slide your index finger down the back behind your heel . |
| 11 | And if er when you arrive on an assignment every assignment has a new one of these and in fact it 's a blank . |
| 12 | It is all too easy ( I speak from experience ) when you hit on a sequence of events that seems funny , to get the bit between your teeth and run on and on . |
| 13 | When she stepped on a stick and snapped it , the sudden noise caused a rook to rise from its nest with a startled beating of wings . |
| 14 | Later she received a good luck token when she went on a walkabout in Glasgow 's George Square . |
| 15 | The 17-year-old single mother from Middlesbrough , who can not be named for legal reasons , elected jury trial when she appeared on a cruelty charge at Horseferry Road Magistrates Court in Westminster yesterday . |
| 16 | We recently had to face this problem in my own county when we embarked on a capital programme to computerise the library service . |
| 17 | On the other hand , we sometimes withdraw completely from words as they are spoken , for example when we work on a dialogue that breaks certain social taboos , that shows characters saying things we can not imagine people actually daring to say . |
| 18 | Erm and certainly I think I think in going to neighbourhood panels it was it was to serve a democratic process of tenants being able to panels local to their that area and I think in that sense erm it has been successful and certainly , I think as far as we were concerned er , it avoids the perhaps intimidating nature of , of tenants appearing in a large centre of the various panel which er I think was er , certainly one of the members wishes when we started on a neighbourhood basis but , yes it was our intention and , I would think that it 's quite reasonable to ask us to bring the report to the next meeting er with a better explanation of how the council works so far . |
| 19 | AS Bill Wyman has made noises about quitting the Rolling Stones , Ron Wood threatens : ‘ If he 's not in the studio when we start on a new album we 'll replace him with a woman . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ In Misano , when we crashed on a fast right-hander and Steve cracked a shoulder , I was thrown right over the top . |
| 21 | Islander was snug in her berth in Hythe Marina when we called on a dull and almost windless day shortly before Christmas last year . |
| 22 | Bush visited Japan on Jan. 7-10 and held several sessions of talks with the beleaguered Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa , when they agreed on a vaguely worded Tokyo Declaration which expressed the commitment of the two countries to work together in support of a new world order . |
| 23 | TORRENTIAL rain greeted a group of golfers from Glasgow 's West George Street Grouping when they went on an outing to Millport Golf Club on the island of Great Cumbrae . |
| 24 | The first point in my manifesto for those with small gardens is is that when they go on a spree to a garden centre , they should quickly nip any delusions of grandeur in the bud . |
| 25 | The Barbarians are to break new ground when they embark on a three-match tour of Russia at the end of May — playing in St. Petersburg , Krasnoyarsk and Moscow . |
| 26 | Joyriders have threatened to stab a farmer 's son who ran to help them when they crashed on a country lane . |
| 27 | When they decide on a particular form of credit , their decision commonly has nothing to do with cost : it is simply that that form of credit is almost automatically part of the buying process that they 're used to . |
| 28 | Erm always been lucky , especially when it falls on a Friday . |
| 29 | The right hon. Gentleman can hardly refer to such a body as having the kind of authority with which he seeks to imbue it when it disagreed on a number of matters and failed to address any of the ones that really matter . |
| 30 | Both in the exclusion of the I-Thou relationship and in the critical method , an uneasy union of formalist grammatical analysis , highly idiosyncratic diagrams , and a belief that his approach is ‘ scientific , or ‘ objective ’ when it rests on a whole series of unargued critical assumptions , this remains a learned but peripheral book . |