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Example sentences for "when one"

  • Everyone had almost given up hope, when one day a doctor arrived who was cleverer than the rest, and said that the only thing that would cure her was the liver of an ape.

  • The prince was much pleased with the doves and was coaxing them to come to him, when one fluttered on to the top of the window and said, 'If you could only hear us speak, you would admire us still more.

  • No one took the slightest notice of any offer he might make, and the poor man was in despair, when one day, as he was standing at his house door, a youth known in the village as Clever Hans came up to him.

  • When one considers it, I have transacted a great deal of business--on the behalf of other people.

  • Well then what did she want to hyke off to live among those Dutchmen for, when one of the best houses in England was open to her?

  • When one goes to see him he has always a pen in his hand.

  • When one is young one does not feel that one needs a guide at all.

  • He tried to speak of Emilio with complete detachment, but could not resist adding: "When one is an old man one likes to sit, one cannot be forever running to and fro.

  • It is much fresher outside, when one is walking.

  • It might be August, when one bathes at midnight, and sings canzoni till dawn.

  • When one came to think of ONE'S SELF, there was vista and void enough for any amount of bleak abnegation and bitter truth.

  • When one is fond of anything one addresses it by diminutives, even if it is an elephant or a life-guardsman.

  • And certainly, when one comes to think of it, it WAS very odd that anything should have disturbed a companion.

  • He had just sat down to supper with Smike, when one of the people of the house came outside the door, and announced that a gentleman below stairs wished to speak to Mr Johnson.

  • It was a bright and sunny morning in the pleasant time of summer, when one of those black monks emerged from the abbey portal, and bent his steps towards the house of the fair sisters.

  • But, when one means to be good-natured and sportive with young people, one doesn't think twice.

  • You make one bite your head off, when one wants to be soothing beyond everything.

  • To do nothing whatever is a depressing thing at all times, but perhaps it is more especially so when one is a big, healthy boy twelve years old.

  • When one is twelve years old, to be so near a Lost Prince who might end wars is a thrilling thing.

  • To fall sequentially, as when one object in a line, by falling against the next object, causes it in turn to fall, and that second object causes a third to fall, etc.

  • A motion in dancing, when one leg is a little bent, and raised from the floor, and with the other a forward motion is made.

  • To push or hit with the elbow, as when one pushes by another.

  • Bordered, as when one color is surrounded by an edging of another.

  • Really, when one comes to think of it, an astonishing fact, a fact vastly significant.

  • When one is at home, how one's affections grow about everything in the neighbourhood!

  • I foresee the day when Englishmen will have forgotten how to brew beer; when one's only safety will lie in the draught imported from Munich.

  • I suppose it's the right way to feel everywhere, when one IS nobody.

  • But in essentials, when one came to look at them, these individuals belonged to types already present to her mind.

  • And she added that such, when one considered it, was simply the essence of the aristocratic situation.

  • He absents himself like that from time to time for a change, and, ma foi, I think he's right, when one has a fortune and is a bachelor.

  • When one sees a gun, one should always give warning.

  • Oh, when one is in Rome, I mean England, one must do as they do in England; I was merely conforming to the custom of the country, he!

  • One only feels uncomfortable,' said I, 'in being silent, when one happens to be thinking of the individual with whom one is in company.

  • I remember that I said one only feels uncomfortable in being silent with a companion, when one happens to be thinking of the companion.

  • By piping I mean, when one of the company that does not play, which frequently happens, sits down in a convenient place to smoke a pipe, and so look on, pretending to amuse himself that way.

  • I was pleasantly and hospitably welcomed by the officers at the post, all of whom were living in tents, with no furniture except a cot and trunk, and an improvised bed for a stranger, when one happened to come along.

  • When one of his staff entered and spoke of Stuart, General Lee said: 'I can scarcely think of him without weeping.

  • Our situation was one of the greatest peril, and we were hesitating in which path to commence a flight, when one of the savages whom I had shot, and supposed dead, sprang briskly to his feet, and attempted to make his escape.

  • With this arrangement he appeared perfectly satisfied, and gave some directions to the canoes, when one of them approached, the rest remaining about fifty yards off.

  • When one is fagged it is only the outset counts.

  • When one is invaded by a flood of affection.

  • What a story it is when one brings it all together!

  • When one is travelling about, one gets to think of history and politics in terms of architecture.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    breeding plumage; told her; when about; when employed; when finished; when found; when fresh; when fully; when given; when growing; when his; when informed; when milk; when not; when present; when sent; when soft; when the door opened; when they had come; when they were alone; when they were come; when they were seated; when thou; when thou art king; when thus; when walking