Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] when [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill Murray spent £50,000 on setting up his restaurant at Telegraph Hill , near Exeter , Devon , two years ago but said the business started to go downhill when he handed it over to a manager to run . |
| 2 | We are , he observed , only too willing to make this sort of leap , and not only in the field of theology ( Hume was also very critical of what he saw as the pretensions of the science of his day to uncover the ‘ hidden springs ’ of things ) , but we need to be much more modest and cautious , to realise how limited the scope of our experience and knowledge is , and how liable our minds to go astray when they over-reach themselves and fish in waters too deep for their lines to plumb . |
| 3 | Feeling the heat of his gaze right through the thin material , she folded her arms protectively , realising only when she saw his mouth curve into a mocking smile that she had merely pushed her breasts upwards , making them clearly visible above the ribbons and lace of the bodice . |
| 4 | It stopped only when we told them to leave . |
| 5 | ‘ Do n't let me stop you ! ’ she exclaimed quickly when she saw he was about to call for the bill — and immediately wished that she had n't . |
| 6 | He felt her jump slightly when he slid his fingers beneath her braid . |
| 7 | She trembled involuntarily when she saw him . |
| 8 | No need to tell them about Charlie and getting married or the unholy row with Mama or the hell that was let loose when she told them she 'd had her medical for the WRNS and if anyone tried to stop her going … |
| 9 | She was still shaking her head from side to side and laughing softly when she shooed him from the kitchen and returned her attention to her magazine . |
| 10 | Any irregularities in the universe would simply have been smoothed out by the expansion , as the wrinkles in a balloon are smoothed away when you blow it up . |
| 11 | The God-shaped vacuum within us makes itself felt most when we ask ourselves — or our psychiatrist — ‘ Who am I ? ’ |
| 12 | I am the TCCB 's lackey , and I act only when they order me . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I have been around too long to take anything for granted so when I saw which way the wind was blowing I just buckled down and got on with playing . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Appealing was then done only when you thought it was out , ’ said Kerr . |
| 15 | What do you think you 'll feel like when they tell you that you ca n't foster any more children , because er there 's going to come a time |
| 16 | I say that I do n't know who the van belonged to , but it drove past when it saw me with the police . |
| 17 | ‘ Proctor played well when I brought him into the team . |
| 18 | We had a shop in Nairobi and came here when we got our vouchers in 1971 . |
| 19 | Listen well when he tells us what happened out there to him and respect him for what he has done , and honour him , for at least he has given each of us hope and proof that escape is possible . ’ |
| 20 | Similarly , whereas over half of the sample ( 57 per cent ) admitted to always or mostly continuing to drink even when they knew they were intoxicated , at the end of the course 60 per cent said this rarely or never occurred . |
| 21 | Blanche plugged in the electric kettle and spooned coffee into the percolator while she listened to the sergeant 's account of his afternoon , swearing softly when he told her the news from the forensic labs . |
| 22 | There was more , of course , about sympathy and sorrow and about writing again when they had anything more to tell her . |
| 23 | He played in 20 Test matches and his post-war service to Yorkshire included three years as Club president , a position he vacated sadly when he found his calls for moderation went unheeded at the height of the Boycott controversy . |
| 24 | This was bad news for the poet , who until his late twenties had never ‘ touched the lips of woman ’ , but he did his best to play it her way , listening dutifully when she told him that their spiritual relationship would be damaged ‘ if I came to you in sin . |
| 25 | They were just about to go home when they found you . ’ |
| 26 | She nodded sagely when I told her of my decision . |
| 27 | It was hard to walk without making a crunching sound , but she did her best , relaxing only when she reached her car and slid carefully into the driver 's seat . |
| 28 | Everybody 's afraid of him now , and they run away when they see him . |
| 29 | She was about to look away when he grabbed her shoulder . |
| 30 | I run now when I see him coming . |