Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [vb -s] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now when she catches the odd episode on TV , Eithne looks on as Chrissie is referred to by her remaining soap family members . |
| 2 | she left that and she 's gone to do her midwifery and now when she gets the other day she was looking at old pay slips God , she must have been an idiot to give up a sister 's post cos she said her wages have dropped terrible to do this course ! |
| 3 | Britomart 's superiority appears later when she recognises the right order of things and restores masculine rule , freeing Artegall and the country : ‘ And changing all that forme of commone weale , /The liberty of women did repeale , /Which they had long vsurpt ; and them restoring/To mens subiection , did true Iustice deale ’ ( V , VII , 42 ) . |
| 4 | whether he should kiss Rose , the wife of the man he is on his way to see , when she opens the front door to him ; |
| 5 | Vaughan 's eyes light up when she describes the bright greens of this flan against the buttery yellow of the sauce . |
| 6 | Erm I 'm g one thing I 'm gon na do is ask if she 'll flag major changes when she produces the new telephone directories . |
| 7 | When she drops the last bead , she picks up all the beads in that last hole ( both hers and her opponent 's if that 's the case ) , and continues to drop them , hole by hole , around the board . |
| 8 | When she makes the occasional mistake , he points it out discreetly and quietly . |
| 9 | The New Religious Right in North America eschew humanism when it threatens the fundamental truths of God 's revelation of himself in the sacred scriptures ( at least as they understand them ) . |
| 10 | It is wider of the mark , however , when it uses the possible closure of the SERC 's Nuclear Structure Facility to suggest that the government 's science funding machinery is in disarray . |
| 11 | Other linguists imply even more clearly that there is no difference in meaning between the two versions of the infinitive by claiming that to is meaningless when it precedes the bare infinitive form . |
| 12 | an alloy is best when it combines the best of it 's component metals . |
| 13 | This is called benevolence , more especially so when it takes the broad form of a wish for the happiness of others in general . |
| 14 | Betjeman 's poem ‘ Original Sin on me Sussex Coast ’ makes a point unwillingly learnt from his old tutor when it depicts the sheer wickedness of children bullying one another , unseen by the sentimental eyes of the mother whose mind has been washed by modern advertising techniques and the vacuous optimism of the age : |
| 15 | British Rail remains convinced that , when it puts the detailed investment proposition to us , once planning permission is obtained , it will pass the appraisal test . |
| 16 | The question is not just whether it criticizes the Conservative Party but when it criticizes the Conservative Party . |
| 17 | The hard copy formatter opens one or more volumes in the hard copy directory for each charge code specified in the configuration file , when it finds the first module which is associated with the given charge code and which has not been hard copied . |
| 18 | When it seems the right time . ’ |
| 19 | If you liken the body to a computer for a moment , the computer can only function when it has the correct date and commands fed to it ; otherwise it refuses to work or breaks down altogether . |
| 20 | The air is so thin that when it reaches the highest point medical staff in white coats appear in the carriages to administer oxygen to passengers struck down by the altitude . |
| 21 | Expect prices in the £8,000 to £11,000 bracket when it reaches the British market in June . |
| 22 | Who does the heart hurt when it sees the unattended pair of shoes ? |
| 23 | An organism assimilates another organism when it makes the latter into something like itself , as food into the body . |
| 24 | He is persuaded to teach the talented Marin Marais but when he detects the young musician has little sympathy for his belief music is only an expression for sorrow , he returns to his hermit 's existence . |
| 25 | Anger and impulse do n't seem to be a part of his make-up : when he parodies the swaggering Hotspur , we can already see the fastidious distaste for self-dramatisation that will make him disown Falstaff , just as , when he imitates his father , we can see the strength this quiet man derives from the stately deliberation of majesty . |
| 26 | As myths go , the Leavis myth was widely successful : but then what teacher , when he tells the young that he has been ill-treated by the world for his opinions , is not believed ? |
| 27 | He will end with a third in the final chord , even when he omits the fifth , and both he and Crecquillon anticipate Palestrina in the climactic use of great descending scales often in thirds , sixths , or tenths — as at the end of his ‘ Jerusalem surge ’ : or the end of Crecquillon 's ‘ Ingemuit Susanna ’ . |
| 28 | Gamble advances the same argument when he identifies the Conservative challenge to the social democratic concept of citizenship as an attempt to block the extension of equal civil , political and social rights to all citizens . |
| 29 | And when he gets the other stuff they give you that big bloody beaker full of it ! |
| 30 | The hero was being filmed taking his 10-month-old baby to the pool when he gets the first indication he is going to be threatened . |