Example sentences of "[verb] when [pron] [was/were] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two days after its signing , Joyce went to England and joined the army , but was discharged when it was discovered that he was only sixteen . |
| 2 | This was not pursued when it was realised that quite small countries like Ireland could become significant contributors . |
| 3 | But this question was quickly resolved when it was discovered that Coggan much preferred moving to York and not London . |
| 4 | This was agreed in February 1906 and at the same time the order for a further 14 cars of the smaller type , to work the Sutton route , was cancelled when it was realized that the fifteen ‘ Croydon & District ’ cars dumped on the site of Mitcham Road Depôt ( Aurelia Road ) would have to be taken into the South Metropolitan fleet . |
| 5 | This theory was threatened when it was discovered that many substances gain weight after combustion . |
| 6 | The crunch came when it was realised that these competent women had a propensity to marry ( Martindale , 1939 ) . |
| 7 | that 's another story with a an unusual ending cos I 'd have thought when you were saying that he was n't that he did n't give them the |
| 8 | ‘ The manager was told when he was appointed that his was a pressure job and that the pressure would increase with good results or bad . |
| 9 | The row , which has prompted calls from some staff for both to resign , began when it was disclosed that the £140,000-a-year director general Birt had been employed as a freelance to gain tax advantages . |
| 10 | Ministers believed the same , asserting as had been asserted when they were created that they were in some way different from the universities . |
| 11 | Then she had been forced to leave when it was discovered that her real father was a white man . |
| 12 | I told him how uneasy I had become when I was approached or touched by anyone . |
| 13 | The Conservative Education Association also condemned the government plan and opposition mounted when it was learned that the government planned to cut education spending in London by 40 per cent following abolition of the ILEA . |
| 14 | Dadda only smoked when he was contented and then he would get through forty or fifty a day , bringing on a cough and staining his fingers yellow-brown . |
| 15 | The pair claimed their human rights were breached when they were arrested and held under the Prevention of Terrorism Act . |
| 16 | Hunt overtook Lauda to win the Spanish Grand Prix at Jarama , the fourth of the championship , but then the season-long wrangling and arguing started when it was ruled that Hunt 's car was 1.8 cm ( 0.7 in ) too wide and he was stripped of his points , Lauda being promoted to first place . |
| 17 | This new decision , however , was overruled when it was discovered that its passage would require a larger majority . |
| 18 | That motivation disappeared when it was discovered that the universe is expanding . |
| 19 | Mm , mm its one of the great arguments from the old fashioned sort of religion , that you could turn , you could definitely turn to people and say why are you leaning on me so hard , for all this to fought , you ought to be reading your bible , saying your prayers , going to church and getting in touch with the boss why I laughed when they were saying that Terry Waite would need counselling , I bet that Terry Waite was praying his head off and he 'd memorised masses of the bible which he would be reciting to himself probably set himself two o'clock every afternoon , I remember what I can , book of you know I do n't suppose he 'd needed any counselling , he 'd probably do better counselling other people . |
| 20 | Apparently much amusement was caused when it was learned that the bill for the work was even more excessive than the shape of the statues . |
| 21 | The shock/horror disclosure that children were watching video nasties in vast numbers was severely criticised when it was found that the research had undergone a little trimming with a chain-saw here and there . |
| 22 | The scale of the potential danger emerged when it was revealed that the dam holds back an estimated 3.5 million tons of toxic sludge from a now-closed lead and zinc mine nearby , containing harmful levels of these and other metals . |
| 23 | The conclusive proof that the horse was being unconsciously cued by the questioner emerged when it was shown that if the questioner was ignorant of the answer to the question , the horse could not provide one either . |
| 24 | And what impact it had made was soon dissipated when it was realized that the ‘ total ’ war was still only partial after all , and that the well-to-do and high-and-mighty were still able to avoid the burdens which fell on ordinary people . |
| 25 | His two thumbs rotated about one another as they always did when he was agitated and looking for a way to strike . |
| 26 | The dramatic irony was further heightened when it was revealed that the botanist and would-be cryptographer was indeed engaged in an extra-marital affair . |
| 27 | But memories of the Flockton Grey affair of 1982 were revived when it was revealed that the horse was bred by Ken Richardson . |
| 28 | A Baroque façade was added in the seventeenth-century but much of this was lost when it was suggested that it was shadowing the more important church of Santa Maria beside it . |
| 29 | These suspicions were fuelled when it was discovered that one of those killed was not employed at the mine . |
| 30 | Their competence was further questioned when it was resolved that , ‘ Messrs. Brunel and Burn be requested to examine further the plans proposed by Messrs. Angell and Pownall to be omitted , and to report to the Judges at their next meeting ’ . |