Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [vb -s] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance : ‘ You should lose weight ’ , ‘ You should n't be so inarticulate at work ’ , ‘ You should n't pursue money as a goal ’ , ‘ You should be kinder to your mother when she phones for a long chat . ’ |
| 2 | Be careful when she swats at a fly or a spider , she may swat you by mistake . |
| 3 | Here the prostitute both loiters and eventually solicits when she speaks to a client . |
| 4 | Kylie fever has sent the temperature soaring and thousands camp out to catch a glimpse of Kylie when she appears as a guest on DJ Simon Mayo 's Radio One Roadshow . |
| 5 | A YOUNG divorcee faces a date with murder when she moves into a high-rise flat from which a lookalike blonde fell to her death . |
| 6 | ‘ When she behaves like a Sharina , she blames people 's dislike of her on being a foreigner , ’ sighed Jane . |
| 7 | When it happens with a train it 's it 's one hundred percent you 're absolutely stuck with the thing . |
| 8 | This is enviable good luck and financially profitable , and when it happens to a writer whose standards are not thereby lowered only prigs will think less of the work . |
| 9 | The health committee 's report last week on community care puts its finger on the problem when it points to a ‘ paradox ’ or ‘ tension ’ in government policy over assessments of need and cash limits . |
| 10 | On the other hand , when one is obsessively searching for the solution to a problem , it may be consciously recognised when it occurs as a fluctuation in the random activity of the subconscious whereas in other circumstances it might not emerge at the conscious level at all . |
| 11 | It is a gruesome and appalling thought to us ; it seems a reversal of the true principles of nature , and yet , how can it be , when it occurs as a common phenomenon ? |
| 12 | The short /α/; rules , however , are formally identical to those for /Ε/:; /α/; is realized as a short vowel near [ a ] when it occurs before a voiceless stop or sonorant + voiceless obstruent , for example in pot , font ; both /Ε/; and /α/,; therefore , show patterns of overlap with /a/ in these environments and , under certain conditions , in polysyllables , as we shall see below . |
| 13 | ( when it occurs before a noun ) Weak form : ( at the beginning of a sentence ) ‘ Take his name ’ ( Another sense of ‘ his ’ , as in ‘ it was his ’ , or ‘ his was late ’ , always has the strong form . ) |
| 14 | In one sense ( typically , when it occurs before a countable noun , meaning ‘ an unknown individual ’ ) it has the strong form : ‘ I think some animal broke it ’ It is also used before uncountable nouns ( meaning ‘ an unspecified amount of ’ ) and before other nouns in the plural ( meaning ‘ an unspecified number of ’ ) , in such uses it has the weak form . |
| 15 | In the primary school , drama is most successful when it emerges as a natural development from children 's play . |
| 16 | It is quite clear that this power available to the courts is essential to deal with contempt of court when it emerges as a result of abuse of trade union power or trade union positions . |
| 17 | The knowledge which research provides is most useful when it goes beyond a description of events to provide a basis for future action . |
| 18 | If there was an air raid at night and the lights on the camp boundary were turned out you missed the flickering of the searchlights as you miss the light of the moon when it goes behind a cloud . |
| 19 | I should be quite content , I thought , to live here for ever , smelling the cooking and the lavatory and the dust , looking forward to my two slices of bread at lunch or tea and my Red Cross stew at supper , thinking about all the books I am going to read and how nice it is going to be when I can speak German and Russian fluently ; I only want to be allowed to live , and enjoy the sun when it shines , and wait for it when it goes behind a cloud . |
| 20 | Even so , country looks a bit of an impostor when it poses as an agent of radical change in pop music . |
| 21 | Erm always been lucky , especially when it falls on a Friday . |
| 22 | When it rubs against a ‘ foreign ’ line , such as a polyester , the result is an instantaneous break . |
| 23 | Space craft goes up and when it gets to a certain height above the earth it just goes round and round and round . |
| 24 | It is sometimes suggested that a justified true belief can be knowledge when it derives from a reliable method ( see Goldman , 1976 ; Armstrong , 1973 , ch. 13 ; Swain , 1981 ) . |
| 25 | All right , they say , a wife is a wife after all , but when it comes to a parents ' decision … |
| 26 | In other words , pre-exposure to the stimulus may both retard the acquisition of the CS-US association and act to interfere with the retrieval of the information embodied in this association when it comes to a test trial . |
| 27 | These problems have n't gone away , but they have been dwarfed by difficulties that stem from ‘ under-control ’ : adolescent and adult excesses due to drug and alcohol abuse ; poor self-control of anger ; a lack of scruples when it comes to a variety of antisocial actions , ranging from vandalism and violence to child neglect and child abuse . |
| 28 | Now , you may think that as far as chorus , delay , flanging etc. is concerned , guitarists could probably write the book , being arguably the most effects-hungry musos on the planet , but when it comes to a studio environment do you know how much delay to add to a vocal part to make it sound really brill ? |
| 29 | So when it comes to a race like the Olympic final it 's no different . |
| 30 | I 've never shirked anything when it comes to a tangle of heads and bodies in the box and when I punch the ball it stays punched . |