Example sentences of "when [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When everyone in the country lives with the prospect of having their house destroyed by a bomb during the night , the Christian talk of Armageddon seems less fanciful than in the ‘ weak piping times of peace ’ . |
| 2 | Bayes ' postulate is that , when nothing to the contrary is known , the probabilities should be assumed to be equal . |
| 3 | Bayes ' postulate is that , when nothing to the contrary is known , the probabilities should be assumed to be equal . |
| 4 | But early on you see he when I before the war he 'd nothing was first of all a push bike |
| 5 | That meant he carried on and when someone at the last moment dropped out , he dropped in ; it was more or less par for the course that , by the end of 1944 , a very large number of Pathfinders had notched up 70 or more sorties . |
| 6 | When someone in the group became temporarily wealthy through employment , there would be a red wine party . |
| 7 | This was made very evident when someone in the Belloso Battalion shouted across to the Atlacatl Battalion , who were on our left flank : " Attack ! |
| 8 | The school was divided into Upper and Lower boys , and the Lower boys in each house fagged for members of the Library : they cooked their tea , ran errands for them , being sent perhaps as far as Windsor to fetch a cake from Fuller 's teashop , and they had to come at once when someone in the Library shouted " Boy ! " , the last arrival being given the job . |
| 9 | Now , you may be a little embarrassed to discuss how you work with people other than in this classroom , although , as the course goes on , you 'll find more and more people doing Hamlet in other classes , and you might find , especially when you 're in the upper sixth , when someone in the lower sixth comes to you and says , what does this mean that you can talk about it with them , okay . |
| 10 | And — who was Lord Fiske of the Decimal Currency Board ( ah , glorious corporatist Labour party designation , The Decimal Currency Board ) and why did he say that ‘ All was going well ’ when nobody except the very young or very bright could understand a thing ? |
| 11 | When nobody from the long list of eminent organizations which had registered their opposition could be present , however ( which was most of the time ) , the burden of maintaining a presence and regular cross-examining was left to a few stalwarts . |
| 12 | And so , when you come to the bible and you read the account of Jesus here on the earth , turning the water into wine , of Jesus stilling the storm , when you into the old testament and you read accounts there of the children of Israel , of the me , of the tremendous miracles that were performed by Jehovah , God for them well of course , there 's a natural explanation to it , because you ca n't do these things , there are natural laws that stop you doing them you can not take a glass of water , even if you 're God , you can not take it and make it into a glass of wine instantly , it 's got natural processes to go through . |
| 13 | I 'll deliver when you for the half an hour when you come back . |
| 14 | I ca n't make the machine go any bloody quicker , well I can , but I so what 's the point in that come and have a look at it and then they said come back and do it when you on the skin , you know the skin bring it forward well it do n't go back , it just gets all tangled . |
| 15 | And what what do you do when you times the index by three ? |
| 16 | ‘ When you till the ground , it shall no longer yield to you its strength ; you shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth . ’ |
| 17 | Gradgrind 's becoming an MP in Hard Times gives him further opportunity for satire : Parliament figures as ‘ the national cinder-heap ’ ( HT ii 11 ) where the MPs , ‘ the national dustmen ’ , get up ‘ a great many noisy little fights amongst themselves ’ ( HT ii 12 ) , and the image recurs in Our Mutual Friend when CD apostrophizes the nation 's legislators : ‘ My lords and gentlemen and honourable boards , when you in the course of your dust-shovelling and cinder-raking have piled up a mountain of pretentious failure , you must off with your honourable coats for the removal of it , and fall to work … or it will come rushing down and bury us alive ’ ( OMF iii 8 ) . |
| 18 | After Easter and many other alarms , when none of the girls was able to be in Great Meadow , Rose had her sister buy a brown Franciscan habit in the town . |
| 19 | In fact she felt that Jennie positively disliked her , particularly when none of the shoes in stock fitted her and Jennie refused to buy her a new pair . |
| 20 | But at a more fundamental level the model predicts a profit on rail freight on the smallest railway network ( of 2600 kilometres ) when none of the major railway freight generators is linked to the network . |
| 21 | And when none of the four owned up , all were sacked . |
| 22 | In O'Reilly v. Mackman Lord Diplock said that there were two exceptions to the principle that it would be an abuse of the process of the court not to bring a purely public judicial review action under Ord. 53 : first , Ord. 53 need not be used when none of the parties objects to the use procedure by writ or summons . |
| 23 | So on my way home from school I bought a bar of Cadbury 's , and I dashed to her house after tea , when none of the other kids were around . |
| 24 | Well that was the , the erm union for us , erm I think erm one of the great assets of being in public transport was that we were in a local erm pension scheme , erm when , when we in the office started , we had to wait until we were eighteen and then we had to wait for a vacancy because there was a limited number of people that the Council were prepared to back by paying a similar amount . |
| 25 | But certainly when we in the regional office get that that advice before before we put a submission to ministers , we will of course try to reconcile the figures so that they are on a consistent basis . |
| 26 | This originates , he says , ‘ when something in the ego coincides with the ego ideal ’ ( or superego ) . |
| 27 | Co fall out the bucket you see on the when they over the top tumbler that 'd splash on into the chute , there used to be a chute , take it right into the harbour . |
| 28 | I remember in the terrible winter of 1962 – 63 we sat out eating a picnic lunch when everybody across the harbour was frozen to death . |
| 29 | Which one is it ? , this one on your right , the one with your silvery leaves , when it in the breeze , sun shining , father Christmas tree , lovely is n't it ? |
| 30 | These are especially important where there is ‘ the potential for discord when anything beyond the conventional or ordinary begins to surface . |