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When and offered
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 they had licked the last of the wieners' taste from their fingers, they settled back, and Cappy offered Ernie a cigarette.
When Governor Al Smith offered New York National Guard planes to fly the mail in and out of the state, it seemed a likely temporary solution, easing Burlington's bottleneck and that at Montpelier too.
When Lindburgh saw the crudeness of Carrel's machinery, he offered to build new equipment for the scientist.
When twenty-one was introduced in the United States, gambling houses offered bonus payouts to stimulate players ' interest.
When this woman wanted to buy a golden necklace ( no name given ) forged by four dwarves ( named Dvalinn, Alfrik, Berling, and Grer ), she offered them gold and silver but they replied that they would only sell it to her if she would lie a night by each of them.
When assured by Mersenne that it was, indeed, the product of the son not the father, Descartes dismissed it with a sniff: " I do not find it strange that he has offered demonstrations about conics more appropriate than those of the ancients ," adding, " but other matters related to this subject can be proposed that would scarcely occur to a sixteen-year-old child.
When offered $ 30, 000 to prove her claim with a blood test, she said that she didn't understand the relevance.
When conspiracy theories are offered as official claims ( for example, originating from a governmental authority, such as an intelligence agency ) they are not usually considered as conspiracy theories.
When asked for a picture of himself, he usually offered a photograph of a cat instead.
When he returned to the factory on Christmas Day he discovered Jed had just been unconscious, and offered him a free flat in Wigan to buy his silence, which Jed accepted.
When told that it was not for sale, Chiang offered a million dollars to recover the photo and its negative.
When other DHCP servers receive this message, they withdraw any offers that they might have made to the client and return the offered address to the pool of available addresses.
When news came that the local vicar had drowned while trying to save victims of the shipwreck, Squire Cobtree offered the post to Christopher Syn.
When the University of Chicago offered him a position he happily accepted.
When Maynard Smith realized that the somewhat disorganised Price was not ready to revise his article for publication, he offered to add Price as co-author.
When he finished school, the town of Leiston offered little to Newson, so he left for London to make his fortune.
When Satie was four years old, his family moved to Paris, his father having been offered a translator's job in the capital.
When used to describe offered traffic, a value followed by “ erlangs ” represents the average number of concurrent calls that would have been carried if there were an unlimited number of circuits ( that is, if the call-attempts that were made when all circuits were in use had not been rejected ).
When Williams was offered the screenplay for Jack he said he would only agree to do it if Coppola agreed to sign on as director.
When Telemann declined the job, it was offered to Christoph Graupner, who also declined it — though chiefly because he could not secure a dismissal from his employer the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt.
When opponents tried to appease him, he accepted the gains that were offered, then went to the next target.
When Standard Fruit offered a new wage equivalent to US $ 1. 75 per day, the strike ultimately collapsed.
When Polk recovered, his father offered to bring him into the mercantile business, but Polk refused.

When and morsel
When the telephone rang on the day after Hino went down to the village, Rector had a hunch it would be Hino with some morsel of information too important to wait until his return, for there were few telephones in the village and the phone in Rector's office rarely rang unless it was important.
Consequently, the next day, at the time of the prayers of Asr, Hazrat Khizr Alaih Salaam met him on the way and said, “ You have got the inspired-knowledge by the order of Allah .” Then he took him to the sea-shore and having taken out a morsel of godly bounty from his own mouth, fed it to him and said “ Your glorious mother ’ s prayers are always answered positively and you have achieved mastery over all the branches of knowledge by the favour of Allah .” When he was free from the evening prayers, he found his pure and clean bosom overloaded with all the branches of the knowledge.
When the fox is tested in the same way, he does not even retain a morsel for himself, explaining ( as in the Greek version ) that he has learned wisdom from the wolf's fate and thanking the lion for giving him the privilege of going second.

When and glanced
When Thain glanced back down to the airspeed indicator, expecting the needle to continue to rise, it fluctuated at around 117 knots before suddenly dropping back down to, and then.
When the matron of the harem sent the unflattering portrait of Wang Zhaojun to the emperor he merely glanced at it and nodded his approval.
When one fastball snapped his glove Friday, Buck said he glanced up at the reading on the Dodger Stadium scoreboard and saw 94.
When he glanced up to see what it was, some person had placed a tall drink glass partially filled with water and a handful of Alka Seltzer tablets.
: When Tony and his sister arrived they wanted to go straight to the pond, but their ayah said they must take a sharp walk first, and as she said this she glanced at the time-board to see when the Gardens closed that night.

When and right
When the Southern States exercised their `` right to secede '', they formed what they officially styled `` The Confederate States of America ''.
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 her right hand was incapacitated by the rheumatism, Sadie learned to write with her left hand.
When we become firm enough to stand for those ideals which we know to be right, when we become hard enough to refuse to aid nations which do not permit self-determination, when we become strong enough to resist any more drifts towards socialism in our own Nation, when we recognize that our enemy is Communism not war, and when we realize that concessions to Communists do not insure peace or freedom, then, and only then will we no longer be `` soft ''.
When more than two figures are separated by subtraction symbols the subtraction must be carried out from the left to right if the result is to be correct.
When changing from one color to another, whether working on right or wrong side, pick up the new strand from underneath dropped strand.
When I looked up the actual date of his birth and found it to be March 15th, I realized that Roy was born under the right zodiacal sign for a watercolorist: the water sign of Pisces ( February 18 thru March 20 ).
( When you see him, you'll notice his habit of fingering, I might almost say, stroking a large mole with black hairs on it, by his right temple.
When they say that under no circumstances would it ever be right to `` permit '' the termination of the human race by human action, because there could not possibly be any proportionate grave reason to justify such a thing, they know exactly what they mean.
When a vacancy occurred, the bishop of the diocese chose the abbot out of the monks of the convent, but the right of election was transferred by jurisdiction to the monks themselves, reserving to the bishop the confirmation of the election and the benediction of the new abbot.
When so used it would generally be fastened on the right shoulder, and would partially envelop the chest as it passed obliquely round in front and behind to be attached to the shield under the left arm.
When shuffled, the second deck is placed to the shuffler's right, i. e. to the next dealer's left.
When machine translation ( also known as mechanical translation ) failed to yield accurate translations right away, automated processing of human languages was recognized as far more complex than had originally been assumed.
# When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right.
When the axes are drawn according to the mathematical custom, the numbering goes counter-clockwise starting from the upper right (" northeast ") quadrant.
When someone judges something to be good, or some action to be right, then the person is using the faculty of moral intuition.
When the ball is played on the right side of the field, the defensive players on the right side move upfield.
When this is stored using the IEEE 754 encoding, this becomes the significand s with e = 1 ( where s is assumed to have a binary point to the right of the first bit ) after a left-adjustment ( or normalization ) during which leading or trailing zeros are truncated should there be any.
When he came round, he was informed that though he had not suffered any life-threatening injury, he had lost the sight in his right eye.
The Dragon debuted in June 1976, and Gygax commented on its success years later: " When I decided that The Strategic Review was not the right vehicle, hired Tim Kask as a magazine editor for Tactical Studies Rules, and named the new publication he was to produce The Dragon, I thought we would eventually have a great periodical to serve gaming enthusiasts worldwide ... At no time did I ever contemplate so great a success or so long a lifespan.
When a group or organization was thus declared criminal, the competent national authority of any signatory had the right to bring persons to trial for membership in that organisation, with the criminal nature of the group or organisation assumed proved.
When a Guru Meditation is displayed, the options are to reboot by pressing the left mouse button, or to invoke ROMWack by pressing the right mouse button.
When Heracles took the cattle of Geryon, he shot Hera in the right breast with a triple-barbed arrow: the wound was incurable and left her in constant pain, as Dione tells Aphrodite in the Iliad, Book V. Afterwards, Hera sent a gadfly to bite the cattle, irritate them and scatter them.

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