Example sentences of "when you [verb] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speak to a Kenyan distance runner in the high hills of the Rift Valley , a Bulgarian hurdler , a Soviet pole vaulter or even a Chinese high jumper and though they may not understand a word of what you are saying , when you utter the words ‘ Andy Norman ’ lights will shine in eyes and heads will nod in recognition and they will search , sometimes desperately , for an interpreter . |
| 2 | You also have to be able to have the computer with you when you take the notes , which is not always easy to arrange . |
| 3 | What is more , when you take the proceeds , you receive them FREE OF ALL TAXATION , under current legislation . |
| 4 | 90 minutes of torture is what I 'd call it , especially when you get the likes of Jimmy Hill ( strokes chin in very sarcastic manner ) commentating . |
| 5 | When you boil the eggs for breakfast , the wax will melt , leaving a lighter pattern on the coloured shell |
| 6 | When you had the blues erm near by you said at one time that it was just away from here , was there , was there any , was it , was there any bother after that after the blues then or was it okay ? |
| 7 | Did you take er members complaints and things when you collected the dues or they had anything to pass on ? |
| 8 | Well when you collected the dues er it meant taking it up to the office every Monday and when you got up to the office and got talking to the officials and such like the interest became greater and er it developed from there that er the workers of thought they should have er should have a representative on the committee . |
| 9 | Slide both thumbs apart and , when you reach the temples , finish with a little circular flourish before gliding off at the hairline ( see Fig. 13 ) . |
| 10 | Turn left when you reach the fortifications and you will find yourself at the back of the Černín Palace ( 5/101 ) . |
| 11 | representing that , but you know and I know that it did n't stay like that , I do n't know how long , but it did n't stay like it for very long because sin crept in , that circle was marred , it was twisted , that intermit original fellowship with God was broken , let me read you a verse there in Genesis chapter three and verse eight , it 's , it 's Adam and Eve it says they heard the sound of the lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the lord God among the trees of the garden , for the first time since Adam had first been created they hide from God , they hear him coming , it 's the time when God will come , and they hear him that were walking through the garden using picture language , and they go and hide , they 're ashamed to see him , they do n't want to look upon him , something has happened that perfect circle has been marred , what it was like yesterday , things are different now , there 's that unclean feeling , there 's that guilt complex , we 've done it wrong , we 've failed to keep what God 's said , we 've broken the rules and when you break the rules , it 's not just the rules that are broken is it , you know it and I know it , in relationships , it 's not just the rules that get broken , it 's the relationship is marred . |
| 12 | Bear this in mind when you peruse the catalogues and the plants on offer in the nursery garden centre plunge beds . |
| 13 | I like it when you put the subtitles up . |
| 14 | Er when you put the banns in , you 've to put yours in |
| 15 | I thought of the metal gauze idea because when light hits a gauze cylinder you ca n't see behind it although anyone inside can look out , and when you put the louvres across as well you further disguise their presence . |
| 16 | Erm , and when you put the names just play through it once . |
| 17 | Er no when you laid the neeps that was yeuking the neeps . |
| 18 | ‘ But when you walk the streets you still pass the prostitutes , the drug takers , the street scum and the unpleasant smell of poverty . |
| 19 | And that way when you analyze the results you can sort of say , Well we found that say Birmingham was very disliked erm but you can say that was n't I mean if everybody in the whole sample |
| 20 | Then when you hear the voices , you say ‘ Do what ? ' ’ |
| 21 | When you hear the words LISTEN and LISTENER , what words do you associate with them ? |
| 22 | Not that you would realize that when you hear The Men Who Know . |
| 23 | When you measure the sizes of birds ' beaks , there may be some scatter among the readings . |
| 24 | Of course it was lovely when you shut the doors to the cold outside , and there you are in the snug , and warm cow . |
| 25 | I told you when you emptied the pockets |
| 26 | When you show the results of your labour to a friend or relative they do not make a minute examination of every component . |
| 27 | When you remove the mops , make sure the tank cover is replaced as Killies are good at jumping . |
| 28 | And you had get the two people who were at the back , you have to get them out before you landed because when you when you brought the flaps up if they were still in this little bay you would squash them to death and one day his dials showed that he had , in fact , squashed them to death ! |
| 29 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 30 | When you got the bottles did they have to be cleaned ? |