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When I switched on the lights for her to come and get the check, I had the exact change plus a dollar tip.
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When and I
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 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 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 switched
When the Falcons started playing in a dome, the team switched to their dark uniforms for home games but have worn their white uniforms at home a few times since switching to the dome.
When the Boston Braves relocated to Milwaukee in 1953, Selig switched alligences, and eventually became the team's largest public stockholder.
When the comic switched to the Tamers series the storylines adhered to continuity more strictly ; sometimes it would expand on subject matter not covered by the original Japanese anime ( such as Mitsuo Yamaki's past ) or the English adaptations of the television shows and movies ( such as Ryo's story or the movies that remained undubbed until 2005 ).
When the power supply to the amplifier is first switched on, electronic noise in the circuit provides a signal to get oscillations started.
When England switched to the shorter foot in the late 13th century, rods and furlongs remained unchanged, since property boundaries were already defined in rods and furlongs.
When switched into 6309 Native Mode ( as opposed to the default 6809-compatible mode ) many key instructions will complete in fewer clock cycles.
When he switched to traditional stop motion, Caprino tried to maintain the impression that he was still using some kind of " magic " technology to make the puppets move, even though all his later films were made with traditional stop motion techniques.
When a light-emitting diode is forward-biased ( switched on ), electrons are able to recombine with electron holes within the device, releasing energy in the form of photons.
When the surface at Tulane Stadium switched from natural grass to PolyTurf in 1971, field temperatures became hotter still.
When in 1942 it became clearer that the fighting would go on for a while, car and truck factories were switched to war work in a modest way, Opel taking up the production of aircraft parts and tanks.
When the current to the coil is switched off, the armature is returned by a force, approximately half as strong as the magnetic force, to its relaxed position.
When the display unit is initially switched on, current flows through the thermistor and degaussing coil.
When international cotton prices collapsed, they switched to coffee, cocoa, bananas, and, most successfully, coconuts.
When FreeBSD and NetBSD resynchronized the 4. 4-Lite2 codebase, they too switched over to Bostic's nvi, which they continue to use today.
When the original user resumes speaking, that user would, in turn, be switched to any channel that happened to be idle.
When data is formatted into packets, the bitrate of the communication medium can be better shared among users than if the network were circuit switched.
When the external power supply is switched on, the metal at the anode is oxidized from the zero valence state to form cations with a positive charge.
When and on
When, in late afternoon on the last day in June, he saw two people top the ridge to the south and walk toward the house, he quit work immediately and strode to his rifle.
When they turned in the saddle they could see the men behind them, strung out on the prairie in a flat black line.
When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.
When Fred Powell's brother-in-law, Charlie Keane, moved into the dead man's home, the anonymous letter writer took no chances on Charlie taking up where Fred had left off and wasted no time on a first notice:
When he rolled on the left side, propping on his left elbow, Matsuo seized his hair and pulled him back over.
When her hand touched his, fire went through Jack and he felt weak, but he managed somehow to get her on her feet.
When he finally left the sinister mansion on Perdido Street, he was carried out in a coroner's basket.
When he was stripped, deloused and numbered by his guards, his much-thumbed sketchbook was seized and thrown on a pile of prisoners' goods to be confiscated.
When combined with the metaphysical notion that pure forms of this universe are best appreciated when least embodied in a material substratum, it becomes clear that while earth will be dross on a scale of material-formal ratios, celestial bodies will be of a subtle, quickened, ethereal existence, in whose embodiment pure form will be the dominant component and matter will be absent or remain subsidiary.
When the family business failed, Mercer left school and on his mother's urging -- for she hoped that he would become an actor -- he joined a local little theater group.
Besides doing a single song, `` When The Sun Comes Out '', they worked on the ambitious American-Negro Suite, for voices and piano, as well as songs for films.
When I returned to make my report, the Hetman did not remember having sent me on the secret mission.
When Fred wheeled him back into his room, the big one looking out on the back porch, and put him to bed, Papa told him he was very tired but that he had enjoyed greatly the trip downtown.
When the young biologist, Dr. Ballard, began to show interest in our daughter Elizabeth, this induced a corresponding interest, on our part, in him.
When he turns briefly to literary style, in the Third Book, he again looks to the effect on the audience.
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