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When they were finally satisfied, Jones said, `` I think he's going to give us work ''.
When one of the men in the hall behind us spat on the floor and scraped his boot over the gob of spittle I noticed how the clerk winced.
When I asked him what, if anything, I could do about it, he surprised me by referring me to the director of the hall.
When I went for my interview with the director I saw why.
When I fell on my back, I saw a vulture hovering.
When my Uncle offered me a part-time job which would take care of my normal expenses and give me time to paint I accepted.
`` When I was in college '', I grinned, `` I remember a poem I had to read in my lit class.
When I show up he will know you are a good wife to have told him about it ''.
`` When I came up, damnit, I thought I was going down.
When I question them as to what they mean by concepts like liberty and democracy, I find that they fall into two categories: the simpler ones who have simply accepted the shibboleths of their faith without analysis ; ;
When I mentioned that for my first long voyage I did not even have the money for the return fare, but had trusted to luck that I would earn a sufficient amount, the young people looked at me doubtingly.
When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, without the base alloy of hypocrisy '' ( His emphasis )
When confronted with a drunk or an insane person I have no notion of what any one of them might do to me or to himself or to others.
When Heidegger and Sartre speak of a contrast between being and existence, they may be right, I don't know, but their language is too philosophical for me.

When and arrived
When the captives arrived in Boston, `` the chaplain ( of their captors ) went to prayers in the open streets, that the people might take notice what they had done in a holy manner, and in the name of the Lord ''.
When the police arrived, they found McClellan and the two lawyers sitting and staring silently.
When police arrived the man was still violent, Slate said.
When the latter arrived, he was killed by Seitz von Frauenberg.
When Andronikos arrived he found that his authority was overthrown: Isaac had been proclaimed Emperor.
When D-Day arrived, they had made enough penicillin to treat all the wounded Allied forces.
When the Israelites, led by Joshua toward the Promised Land, arrived at the banks of the River Jordan, the Ark was carried in the lead preceding the people and was the signal for their advance ( Joshua 3: 3, 6 ).
When sitting in review of a decision, the Court will only look at the method in which the decision was arrived at, whereas in an administrative appeal the correctness of the decision itself will be examined, usually by a higher body in the agency.
When Theseus arrived, he did not reveal his true identity.
When Nelson's fleet arrived off Egypt on 1 August and discovered Brueys's dispositions, he ordered an immediate attack, and his ships advanced on the French line.
" When Graham arrived in Greenville, Jones, Jr. emphasized that the basis of the university's position was scriptural and not personal.
When Caliph al-Mu ' izz li Din Allah finally arrived from the old Fatimid capital of Mahdia in Tunisia in 973, he gave the city its present name, al-Qahira (" The Victorious ").
When Beaux arrived in Paris, the Impressionists, a group of artists who had begun their own series of independent exhibitions from the official Salon in 1874, were beginning to lose their solidarity.
When Napoleon arrived, he reorganized the defenses, while realizing that without cannon, the city could not be held.
When the Industrial Revolution arrived, many changes occurred that brought about the food today in its modern form.
When news arrived of Cerialis ' victory over Civilis, Mucianus tactfully dissuaded Domitian from pursuing further military endeavours.
When the invitation arrived, Kaye was busy at work on The Inspector General ( which had a working title of Happy Times for a while ).
When Caraffa's replacement, Count Caprara, was himself transferred in 1694, it seemed that Eugene's chance for command and decisive action had finally arrived.
When the pro-Nestorius Antiochene delegation finally arrived, they decided to convene their own council over which Candidian presided.
When he arrived home, Sullivan learned he would not be able to air the Bergman material from it.
When most of the land army arrived, the King and Queen had a profound dispute.
When the French general Junot arrived in Lisbon, the Portuguese fleet had already left with all the local elite.
When they arrived they found that only 54 of the 193 deportées sent out three years earlier were left ; 11 had escaped, and the rest had died of tropical fevers and other diseases.
When pitcher Roger Clemens arrived in Boston for the first time in 1984, he took a taxi from Logan Airport and was sure the driver had misunderstood his directions when he announced their arrival at the park.

When and at
When his eyes began to focus, he saw Jess charging at him with a pitchfork.
When she appeared at the store to help out for a few hours even my looking at her was surreptitious lest my Uncle notice it.
When she would do these things, he would turn blind for an instant and become sick at his stomach.
When he started school at the age of five-and-a-half, he could not understand why the alphabet begins with the letter A, instead of C, as in the scale.
When the Revolution broke out, he, along with Jefferson and Jay, abandoned his career at the bar, with considerable financial sacrifice.
She used to tell me, `` When I stand there and look at the flag blowing this way and that way, I have the wonderful, safe feeling that Americans are protected no matter which way the wind blows ''.
When we turn to Aristotle's ideas on the moral measure of literature, it is at once apparent that he is at times equally concerned about the influence of the art.
When Quiney and William Parsons wrote to Greville in 1593 asking his consent in the election for bailiff, they sent the letter to Mr. William Sawnders, attendant on the worshipful Mr. Thomas Bushell at Marston.
When he came home from his office at the end of the afternoon, Breasted never knew what gathering he should expect to find, but there almost always was one.
There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.
When he was 15, his parents finally allowed him to attend classes at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.
When the knife went into his chest, he went down at once.
When Peter had reached his majority at eighteen??
When he was going to town, nothing was good enough -- he had cursed at Winston once for leaving a fleck of polish on his shoelace.
When the whole bottom has hardened, use a disk sander to feather the edges of the cloth at the keel line and near the spray rail.
When a witness at court was asked if he had been kicked in the ensuing rumpus, he replied, `` No, it was in the stomach ''.
When it was worn in the breast, or even on the sleeve, we at least knew where it was ''.
When we look at countries like Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, and Burma, where substantial progress has been made in creating a minimum supply of modern men and of social overhead capital, and where institutions of centralized government exist, we find a second category of countries with a different set of problems and hence different priorities for policy.
When this proposal was made, Stalin spoke with stronger emotion than at any other time during the Conference.
When we repeat the remark that such suffering was a bad thing, the feeling with which we made it last week may be at or near the vanishing point, but if we were asked whether we meant to say what we did before, we should certainly answer Yes.
When the patient was not allowed to move his body in any way at all, the following striking results occurred.

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