Example sentences of "[verb] when [pron] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he had only offered to use the truncheon as a sex aid but desisted when she shook her head . |
| 2 | Which of the following did you buy when you bought your bed ? ( please tick all that apply ) |
| 3 | We were applauded when we reported our record , and one of the newly recruited flying students opened a few bottles of root beer by way of celebration . |
| 4 | She had her back to the door and was standing at a filing-cabinet taking out more information she would need when she heard her assistant come back . |
| 5 | They are discharged when they reach their target weight . |
| 6 | Fred often winced when he witnessed his wife 's impudence and guile , but he realised she was right . |
| 7 | Hank chuckled , and then winced when he moved his head suddenly . |
| 8 | Maggie exclaimed when she saw her sister framed in the kitchen doorway . |
| 9 | Cap Gemini Sogeti SA said yesterday that it was making the offer for the remaining 28.8% of London W-based software and computer services company Hoskyns Group Plc as it promised when it bought its majority stake from GEC Siemens Plc . |
| 10 | It stopped when she lifted her palm , and came through again when she put it back . |
| 11 | I began to laugh but stopped when I saw my uncle 's white face . |
| 12 | The couriers signed on for courses at two language schools in order to get visas , but were caught when one had his baggage searched at Heathrow . |
| 13 | He entered when he had his car radio security marked by Newburn Crime Prevention Panel . |
| 14 | The news might well be outdated by the time it reached the curia , messengers and even legates might be seized , as Cardinal Leo was by King Imre of Hungary , and the curial instructions might well be outdated when they reached their target . |
| 15 | He looked very doubtful when I asked certain questions and laughed me to scorn when I gave my verdict . |
| 16 | If the first two rows started barfing when I took my shirt off , I would n't do it again … ’ |
| 17 | He said it was accidentally gassed when he left his car engine running . |
| 18 | Stich and Ferreira failed in their bid to take the doubles title when they lost their quarter-final , suspended from last night , 5–7 , 6–4 , 6–3 to Australian top seeds Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde . |
| 19 | There 's a good few people around this quarter afraid of you and of what you can do when you open your mouth . |
| 20 | Can you remember I mean what they sa what the actual steps as it were when the , you know , when the kids stop look and listen when you do your look left again . |
| 21 | She was in the middle of making a salad dressing when someone rang her doorbell . |
| 22 | At one level this is what happens when we refine our perception of concepts such as ‘ insects ’ ( from which everything small that creeps or crawls to the more precise ‘ creatures with six legs and bodies consisting of three elements : body , thorax , and head ’ ) or ‘ the Victorian age ’ , or ‘ freedom ’ . |
| 23 | See what happens when you waste your time in line ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Oh it 'll be such fun , ’ their mother had said when she kissed them good-bye at the station . |
| 25 | Eating his bacon and eggs , ‘ Sunny-side up , ’ Sally-Anne had once said when she put his plate before him , drinking his coffee — he preferred it to everlasting tea , he said — he looked much better than he had done the day before ; no midnight drinking , Sally-Anne thought . |
| 26 | Jean-Paul thought of what their mother had said when he had his farewell interview with his brother . |
| 27 | BSDI made its motion on the basis of legal procedure claiming USL would first have to charge it with trade secret and copyright infringement , a charge USL subsequently made when it expanded its suit to include the University of California at Berkeley ( UX No 396 ) . |
| 28 | We 've got a bottle of wine in the fridge to open when we get our money . |
| 29 | the court of appeal held that foster parents of a child , scalded when she put her foot under hot running water , were not negligent.the majority view was that a parent should not be responsible for unforeseeable accidents of the type which occur in the best homes . |
| 30 | At the beginning of the 1750s very few Englishmen in America had pushed even as far inland as the East India Company had done when it founded its port up the Hughli river at Calcutta . |