When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.

When the meal was ready, he told Jones to wash up, and going into the front room, woke the girl.

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 he regained consciousness he was in Lord's house, in the office of Doctor Lord, the deputy's deceased father.

When it was followed by a second, whining even closer, Cobb swerved sharply aside into a depression.

When the sea was visible ahead of them, the relief was as great as if the sun had come out.

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 our eyes met the air was filled with an unuttered message of `` Me, too ''.

`` When I was in college '', I grinned, `` I remember a poem I had to read in my lit class.

When they got to Shillong, in Assam, he was happy.

`` When I came up, damnit, I thought I was going down.

When he awoke in the mornings, she was in his mind and he could hardly wait to get to school to be near her in the flesh.

When he came back to the schoolhouse, his mind was made up.

When he finally left the sinister mansion on Perdido Street, he was carried out in a coroner's basket.

When he was eight he began violin lessons.

When the possibility that he had not given reconsideration to so weighty a decision seemed to disconcert his questioners, Mr. Eisenhower was known to make his characteristic statement to the press that he was not going to talk about the matter any more.

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 her right hand was incapacitated by the rheumatism, Sadie learned to write with her left hand.

When Harold Arlen returned to California in the winter of 1944, it was to take up again a collaboration with Johnny Mercer, begun some years before.

When he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.

When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.

When he handed it back and I had hold of it safely, Pops was looking toward me and I said `` Now '', to Charlie and he swung the short length of lead pipe he'd meanwhile taken from his pocket, once.

When large numbers of delayed signals are mixed over several seconds, the resulting sound has the effect of being presented in a large room, and it is more commonly called reverberation or reverb for short.

When the CCITT ( now ITU-T ) was standardizing ATM, parties from the United States wanted a 64-byte payload because this was felt to be a good compromise in larger payloads optimized for data transmission and shorter payloads optimized for real-time applications like voice ; parties from Europe wanted 32-byte payloads because the small size ( and therefore short transmission times ) simplify voice applications with respect to echo cancellation.

When he discovered that the original Desiree, Glynis Johns, was able to sing ( she had a " small, silvery voice ") but could not " sustain a phrase ", he devised the song " Send in the Clowns " for her in a way that would work around her vocal weakness, e. g., by ending lines with consonants that made for a short cut-off.

When the server serves, the shuttlecock must pass over the short service line on the opponents ' court or it will count as a fault.

When short on time, 2 × 2 boxes ( created by a square of 9 dots ) is good for beginners, and 5 × 5 is good for experts.

When there is a hill to be climbed, flights of many locks in short succession may be used.

When foraging for honey, chimps will use modified short sticks to scoop the honey out of the hive, that is, if the bees are stingless.

When a soldier is killed in action, the round piece is removed by cutting the short loop with a bayonet, while the oval piece remains with the body.

When he returned to the United States, jobs were in short supply ; Kaye struggled for bookings.

When they finished in 1851, they were sent on a short tour abroad, ending with a memorable visit to the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, London.

When the band was summoned to the rehearsal stage on short notice, only Holly was in their dressing room.

** " Rule 2: When undecided about the exact frame to cut on, cut long rather than short.

When they did run, it was awkwardly and with short steps in a straight line.

When people are asked to make up a random-looking sequence of coin tosses, they tend to make sequences where the proportion of heads to tails stays closer to 0. 5 in any short segment than would be predicted by chance ( insensitivity to sample size ); Kahneman and Tversky interpret this to mean that people believe short sequences of random events should be representative of longer ones.

When Galileo was viewed as a private-sector development with public-sector financial participation, European Commission program managers sought Chinese participation in pursuit of Chinese cash in the short term and privileged access to China ’ s market for positioning and timing applications in the longer term.

When pairs of horses are used in drawing a wagon or coach it is usual for the outer side of each pair to be connected to reins and the inside of the bits connected by a short bridging strap or rope.

When Bosman was sixteen, he started writing short stories for the national Sunday newspaper ( the Sunday Times ).

When on the ground, they stand upright and move with short hops forward, with their arms held high.

Russ won a 1972 Nebula Award for her short story " When It Changed " and a 1983 Hugo Award for her novella " Souls.

Cagney cut short his imminent tirade, saying " When I started this picture, you said that we would tangle asses before this was over.

When jazz guitarists play chords underneath a song's melody or another musician's solo improvisations, it is called " comping ", short for " accompanying " The accompanying style in most jazz styles differs from the way chordal instruments accompany in many popular styles of music.

When Dekanozov finally appeared, Ribbentrop read out a short statement saying that the Reich had been forced into " military countermeasures " because of an alleged Soviet plan to attack Germany in July 1941.

When worn with full armour, the tachi would be accompanied by a shorter blade in the form known as koshigatana (" waist sword "); a type of short sword with no hand-guard ( tsuba ) and where the hilt and scabbard meet to form the style of mounting called an aikuchi (" meeting mouth ").