Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] when [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is justifiably proud of what he and his father achieved at Lingfield , not least the deal they struck with the redoubtable Cyril Stein of Ladbrokes when they bought the course from his company seven years ago . |
| 2 | One Girl felt the full force of snobbery when she announced her wedding to a stagehand . |
| 3 | He looks like he unleashes the force of nature when he swings a club . |
| 4 | It is important to review all these methods as they figure so strongly in the consciousness of people when they think of discipline . |
| 5 | For a long time Bayonne was an English possession , having been part of the extensive territorial dowry of Eleanor of Aquitaine when she married into the Plantagenet family in the middle of the twelfth century . |
| 6 | The same lady suffers loss of balance when she looks down . |
| 7 | Then this would never have happened , or if it had ( I could n't bring myself to unwish an experience which still washed over me with waves of delight when I remembered it ) at least Toby would have known what he was doing , his eyes would have been open . |
| 8 | The following summer I was in command of Searcher when we paid a courtesy visit to Holland . |
| 9 | Connor McCaffrey ( 18 ) was taking the lift to his room at Queen 's University halls of residence when it became stuck between the third and fourth floors . |
| 10 | In another room they had a stroke of luck when they came across a large paper bag of fruit , a couple of packets of biscuits , a tin of shortbread , a jar of butterscotch and an unopened bottle of Johnnie Walker whisky . |
| 11 | Zborowski had a stroke of luck when he came back . |
| 12 | In the summer of 1967 , Richard Nixon was received with the honours usually reserved for heads of state when he arrived in Bucharest . |
| 13 | He granted several estates to the monastery of Lindisfarne when he entered it and was subsequently venerated as a saint , his relics being removed in the ninth century to Norham with those of St Cuthbert — and eventually to Durham . |
| 14 | This can not have been the intention of Parliament when it prevented drivers from contracting out of their liability to a passenger . |
| 15 | Sometimes , but only very rarely do I touch a piece of bliss when I grope in the dark . |
| 16 | She had just identified the object as a large flat piece of cardboard when she realised that footsteps behind her had carried on . |
| 17 | When the celebrations were at a height the lady who had been rescued said she would present a piece of silver when she got back to England to the squadron and what would they like . |
| 18 | I could see he was troubled by the need to start a new piece of paper when we got back to the surgery . |
| 19 | Because it , it 's terrifying looking at a blank piece of paper when we needed ways to start the comment . |
| 20 | She was studying at the Royal College of Music when she moved into Coleherne Court with Diana , and then went on to become an opera singer , pausing only recently to have a couple of children . |
| 21 | Surely there was an austere pride in the words of Thoreau when he wrote that he was regarded as the least important man in his village , and there is no doubt in my mind that he must have savoured the aroma of that rare emotion . |
| 22 | Nuclear Electric paid their staff a bonus of £1600 when they declared their annual results . |
| 23 | All-American girl made good : Elizabeth Halaby became Queen Noor of Jordan when she married King Hussein |
| 24 | They had been crossing a scree ; there had been many loose stones , and footing was difficult , but surely at that point they had been traversing a gentler slope , and her employer had actually been standing on a flattish stretch of granite when she had fallen . |
| 25 | You may see traces of blood when you brush your teeth . |
| 26 | Soviet leaders were willing to support such a conception of non-alignment when it hindered the Western states . |
| 27 | We can hardly tell the Finance and Executive Committee that the British are unreliable at the vehicle plants , but as solid as the Rock of Gibraltar when it comes to components . ’ |
| 28 | How could she have felt that hot surge of excitement when he kissed her , touched her ? |
| 29 | Unpleasant and smelly as the operation was , she felt a surge of exultation when she cut the thread of the last suture and surveyed her unconscious patient . |
| 30 | Similarly Julian was nor afraid to put her own words and reflections onto the lips of Christ when she wrote her book . |