Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [vb -s] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you become over-protective of her when she growls at strange dogs , in her mind you will be ‘ rewarding ’ her and making your problem worse . |
| 2 | During this time the egg passes along her oviduct ( egg-laying tube ) so that it is ready for immediate extrusion when she arrives at the nest . |
| 3 | These embarrass her when she changes at her adult education course of aerobics . |
| 4 | These embarrass her when she changes at her adult education course of aerobics . |
| 5 | While it 's true that nobody does any work in The Possessed except delivering babies , and true also that Stepan Verkhovensky flowers into a veritable presiding genius of sloth in the guise of footling bustle , nevertheless the reader 's heart is not with Mrs Stavrogin , Stepan 's patroness , when she hisses at him on his deathbed ‘ you futile , futile , ignoble , chickenhearted , always , always futile man ’ . |
| 6 | Be careful when she swats at a fly or a spider , she may swat you by mistake . |
| 7 | One possibility is that the sexy senorita will stumble on his dark secret when she calls at his home as his male lover is leaving . |
| 8 | She says she feels neglected when she looks at all the visitors Mum gets . |
| 9 | " And she has good reason to say so when she looks at what has happened to all the rest of them . " |
| 10 | When she looks at me , I shrink . |
| 11 | At least when she finishes at , with Aunty Anne , it was seasonal . |
| 12 | TV comedienne and writer Victoria Wood will be happy to have just a walk-on role when she appears at Sunderland 's Empire Theatre later this year . |
| 13 | And when she clutches at her side and complains of a slight ache you lean forward solicitously and ask , ‘ Are you all right , my darling ? ’ |
| 14 | Her father and mother , who holiday in France , have organised a job , as a cook , for her when she leaves at sixteen . |
| 15 | When it happens at this stage many mothers receive little sympathy because there may be no visible signs of loss . |
| 16 | Going back to hire and planning section , I bear that all in mind , I do fear that under hire and planning especially , when it says at least they 're not at least that is verging on the possible discrimination , because as Councillor said , if no one , all all the best males forward , and they 're all all better than the females , after four years , say , the erm , surely the highest paid , the temptation is going to be say , that er , for example , that er inferior female employee instead of a inferior female to a male . |
| 17 | Everything going into the hole dust clouds , light beams , stars , spacecraft , you anything crossing the boundary sphere marking the edge of the hole — it gets crushed out of existence when it arrives at the central point of the hole . ’ |
| 18 | The exhibition of Robert Rauschenberg 's early work reaches the conclusion of its four-city , fifteen-month tour when it opens at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in the middle of this month ( 14 May-2 August ) . |
| 19 | Now this when when it comes at the end of a word |
| 20 | For example , the word ‘ of ’ has the weak form in the following sentence : ‘ I 'm fond of chips ’ but when it comes at the end of the sentence , as in the following example , it has the strong form : ‘ Chips are what I 'm fond of ’ Many of the words given below ( particularly the first nine ) never occur at the end of a sentence , e.g. ‘ the ’ , ‘ your ’ . |
| 21 | when it comes at tea time you wo n't be hungry will you , cos you 've eaten , ate all this ? |
| 22 | Geography , as a subject , tends to concern itself with what is done , in what manner and where , especially when it looks at industry and resources . |
| 23 | They 're back in the off-licence when it re-opens at seven o'clock , running up another £16.76 on credit , including the cost of a bottle of Old England Cream Sherry . |
| 24 | A Jockey Club inquiry into alternative starting procedures is expected to recommend changes when it reports at the end of the summer . |
| 25 | Long day is n't it , when he goes at half past seven in the morning . |
| 26 | The Times , once an ardent supporter of Chadwick , was particularly vicious in its appraisal of his administrative career , chortling that Mr Chadwick would receive his final reward ‘ when he falls at last a sanitary martyr to a choked two-inch pipe drain and is carried by policemen … to an extramural cemetery ’ . |
| 27 | When he stares at me again I see flecks of amber in the brown of his eyes . |
| 28 | So they stand cheerfully by the carriage window revealing in loud voices the personal secrets of the wretched traveller , who winces as he realizes that he has to travel two hundred miles with a carriage full of strangers who know his family history , how prone he is to chills if he wears a damp vest , what he has to do when he arrives at his destination . |
| 29 | When he arrives at his destination he can not rely upon finding effective substitutes not merely for the luxuries , but for the common necessaries , which he may have left behind . |
| 30 | Now , Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown plans to raise the whole issue when he speaks at the Welsh Labour conference in Llandudno later today . |