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 she appeared, two or three of the little girls jumped up and down, yelling, `` Goody, goody ''.

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 he added to his Pittsburgh commitments the directorship of the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 1958, he conducted one hundred fifty concerts within nine months, `` commuting '' between the two cities.

When, in March, 1640, the two towns were united under Coddington, Gorton claimed the union was irregular and illegally constituted and that it had never been sanctioned by the majority of freeholders.

When finally the two bedraggled men reach their friend's home, Voltaire's fears are once again aroused.

When he had stored his stock in the great oak chest, locked the two big hasps and secured the additional chain, tied the fly of the tent, and picked up the cash box, he moved up the darkening street.

When McFeeley was halfway to the door, the proprietor emerged -- a mountainous, dark man, his head thick with resiny black hair, his eyes like two of the black olives he imported in boatloads.

`` When Konishi gets back with the jeep, I want you to round up two or three Japanese boys.

When the boat had touched, the weaker ones and the two wounded men had been lifted out and carried away by the soldiers.

When he showed this model as his `` solution '' as to how the Howe sewing machine operated, he was told he was `` wrong '', and discovered to his amazement that the Howe Machine, which was unknown to him in detail, used two threads while the one that he had perfected used only one.

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 a question contains two verbs, the response does not make clear which of them is being answered.

When the early part of the gradient was flattened, either by using the gradient shown in Fig. 2 or by allowing the `` cone-sphere '' gradient to become established more slowly, Region 2 activity could sometimes be separated into two areas ( donors P. J. and R. S., Fig. 1 and E. M., Fig. 2 ).

When it comes to rate of early growth, the Indian python leads with a figure of about 3 feet 6 inches per year for the first two years, more or less.

When, as in this case, the two forms match, the address Af is saved to represent the occurrence Af.

When ity is added, real clearly has two syllables.

When now we count the frequency of the 71 items in the two language families appearing in the same column or grade, or one column or grade apart, or two or three or four, we find these differences: Af

When the power of the latter was made both limited and explicit -- when norms were clarified and made more precise and the creation of new norms was placed exclusively in parliamentary hands -- two purposes were served: Government was made subservient to an institutionalized popular will, and law became a rational system for implementing that will, for serving conscious goals, for embodying the `` public policy ''.

When he realized she was dead, he called two lawyers and then the police.

When the police arrived, they found McClellan and the two lawyers sitting and staring silently.

When the visitors, after losing this game, rode along the village streets toward home, the youngsters who could keep abreast of them for a moment or two screamed triumphantly, `` You bunch of hay-shakers!!

When the two cars were equidistant from him, the station wagon started up again and the Ford gathered speed.

Read the next two verses: `` When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

When used as a proper noun, the word, as well as its equivalents in other languages often have ethnic nationalist connotations.

When used as a noun, meaning " a large number ", it follows the same rules as that phrase.

When noun class is expressed on other parts of speech, besides nouns and pronouns, the language is said to have grammatical gender.

When a noun is required, the expression used means literally " language of the Latvians / English / Russians ", " latviešu / angļu / krievu valoda ".

When the noun is a normal plural, with an added s, no extra s is added in the possessive ; so the neighbours ' garden ( where there is more than one neighbour ) is correct rather than the neighbours's garden.

When the distinction is made, proper nouns are limited to single words only ( possibly with the ), while proper names include all proper nouns ( in their primary applications ) as well as noun phrases such as United Kingdom, North Carolina, Royal Air Force, and the White House.

When used attributively within a noun phrase, complex adjectival phrases tend to occur after the noun: I found a typist much quicker than I ( compare I found a quick typist, where a simple adjective occurs before the noun ).

When used as a noun, it can mean " a varied mixture.

When the term reverend is used alone without a name as a third-person reference to a member of the clergy, it is treated as a normal English noun and therefore requires either a definite or indefinite article ( e. g., We spoke to a / the reverend yesterday.

When a noun or pronoun appears in dual form, it is interpreted as referring to precisely two of the entities ( objects or persons ) identified by the noun or pronoun.

When his article was published in English, the translator mistakenly rendered his German noun Aleatorik as an adjective, and so inadvertently created a new English word, " aleatoric ".

: When " secret police " is part of a longer noun compound: for example, " secret police operations " may mean " police operations which are secret ".

When used as a noun, it means either " a tiny person " or " a person with a narrow outlook, who minds the petty and trivial things.

When a noun is preceded by a number, a demonstrative such as this or that, or a quantifier such as every, a classifier must appear directly before the noun.

When used as a proper noun, and the year is not mentioned, it usually refers to the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713, a legal mechanism designed to ensure that the Austrian throne and Habsburg lands would be inherited by Emperor Charles VI's daughter, Maria Theresa.

When used as a noun with “ the ” to indicate a geographic location, as in “ visiting the French Caribbean ”, the term may refer to any of the following:

When made up of two words ( a binomial ) the name usually consists of a noun ( like salt, dog or star ) and an adjectival second word that helps describe the first, and therefore makes the name, as a whole, more " specific ", for example, lap dog, sea salt, or film star.

When " re -" is prefixed to a monosyllabic word, and the word gains currency both as a noun and as a verb, it usually fits into this pattern, although, as the following list makes clear, most words fitting this pattern do not match that description.

:“ When the copulative kai connects two nouns of the same case, if the article ho, or any of its cases, precedes the first of the said nouns or participles, and is not repeated before the second noun or participle, the latter always relates to the same person that is expressed or described by the first noun or participle ...”