Example sentences of "when [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Member states are not always as Community minded when implementing directives into their respective legal systems as they are when adopting them within the Council . |
| 2 | It may help to twist drain rods when pushing them down the drain . |
| 3 | I have you and all at your magazine to thank for your support , but listening to the troubles of fishkeepers on the telephone and when meeting them over the last twelve months I am left in no doubt that there is a vast array of undetectable contaminants in our tapwater , apart from just chlorine , which consistently depress fish condition and render them less able to resist stress and infection . |
| 4 | The rule against prior restraint is secure in libel cases " because of the value the court has placed on freedom of speech and freedom of the press when balancing it against the reputation of a single individual who , if wronged , can be compensated in damages " . |
| 5 | One feature of the mushroom polyps which should be born in mind when positioning them in the aquarium is the strength of the sting that their short tentacles produce . |
| 6 | above ) when removing them from the vicinity of a police van into which the arrested persons were being placed . |
| 7 | She started off as a journalist , and when reading her on the nauseating cult of Elizabeth David , you know you are in the hands of a mistress of rhetoric . |
| 8 | When reading it on the spot , along with Memoirs of the Duc de Saint Simon , the visitor becomes entirely absorbed in the bizarre life of Louis XIV , a monarch who spent all his time in public , and yet allowed no man — except his brother — to sit down directly in front of him . |
| 9 | At present , Akeakamai can understand sentences of up to five words , and can understand commands even when hearing them for the first time . |
| 10 | When visiting us in the early stages of Christian Aid she listened with obvious incredulity to our talk about the hours we would spend in Church on the books . |
| 11 | Once or twice , when gesturing him into the dining-room for supper , he 'd laid a hand on his shoulder . |