Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] when [pron] [vb past] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter Jones , 32 , of North Road , Darlington , qualified for the certificate when he gained his Third Dan in Shoto Kan karate at an event held at the Primrose Holly Holiday Centre on the outskirts of Scarborough . |
| 2 | No you 've probably nipped the skin when you took your moustache off |
| 3 | She turned her face away from the light when she heard his voice , but Jan Coggan had also recognized her . |
| 4 | He loved the way she smelt , the atmosphere with which she surrounded you , the way she gestured , the ear-rings that sparkled in the light when she turned her head quickly . |
| 5 | He has told us that the minister relied on the legal advice from within the Department when he issued his directive to the area health authority and put in the commissioners . |
| 6 | Roman helped Claudia out of the car when they reached her flat , took the key from her and opened the door . |
| 7 | The Times ( 15 August 1898 ) had given the broadest indication of the shock-waves produced by the push-bike when it delivered its editorial judgement on ‘ The Bicycle as a Social Force ’ , which bristled with otherwise unaccountable fears and allusions to deeper moving forces within society . |
| 8 | In 1968 , however , that rare talent of Clark 's was taken from the sport when he lost his life in an inexplicable accident during a Formula Two race at West Germany 's Hockenheim circuit . |
| 9 | He resigned his office but was retained on the council when he announced his reversion to Roman Catholicism . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'll stick to mineral water , ’ Alyssia said , sourly noticing that Mr Charm was back on the scene when he continued his conversation with Simone as though she had n't arrived on the scene at all . |
| 11 | KEVIN Brown left his keys in the ignition when he filled his new Porsche with petrol — and had the £50,000 car nicked while he paid the bill at Washington , Tyne and Wear . |
| 12 | She was already crossing the room when she smacked her forehead . |
| 13 | The news of the policeman 's death came soon afterwards — the sleeping watchman had found the body when he made his evening rounds . |
| 14 | He had six birdies and an eagle , but lost his chance of catching the leader when he hit his only bad stroke with a 1-iron at the sixteenth . |
| 15 | Lord declares that he was unaware that a contract had actually been signed with Harris — though he knew Harris was keen to write the biography — at the point when he wrote his own outline . |
| 16 | If an asylum claim that is not justified under the United Nations convention is to be the means of obtaining settlement in the United Kingdom , we need at the very least to explain , particularly to the minority communities legitimately settled here , why their friends and relatives who would like to come and join them are not allowed to do so because they told the truth when they made their applications , whereas others who are prepared to make an unfounded asylum claim can remain indefinitely . |
| 17 | He 'd realise the truth when he discovered her empty bed in the morning . |
| 18 | ‘ You gave me the right when you accepted my protection , sweetheart . ’ |
| 19 | Yet in The Rake 's Progress de Valois found something new to say about the ladies of the town when she made their leader kick off her shoes , pull up her long yellow skirt and roll down her red stockings before bursting barefooted into a riotous dance on a great salver . |
| 20 | Jacques Delors , European Commissioner , sparked the crisis when he prevented his Agricultural Commissioner Ray MacSharry signing an agreement . |
| 21 | There was the famous occasion when he picked at a wall behind a bus stop while waiting for a bus and found a rare specimen fossil ; and the occasion when he cut his leg while climbing a rockface at Craigleith Quarry and failed to notice it until his Wellington boot was full of blood , whereupon he drove to the nearest hospital for stitches and a transfusion . |
| 22 | But Ally McCoist put the Scots back in the game when he hit his 13th international goal in the 13th minute . |
| 23 | The Fawlty Towers star nailed his colours firmly to the mast when he married his third American wife this week in a secret ceremony in Barbados . |
| 24 | Also the incident when he hacked their left winger in the box , he never touched the ball . |
| 25 | Frost was affected by the incident when he began his final round . |
| 26 | Twenty-two years later Cubitt returned to the attack when he published his Popular Handbook of Nonconformist Church Building . |
| 27 | Nicholas , seven , touched the hearts of the nation when he lost his sight through cancer earlier this year , then was robbed of his home by fire . |
| 28 | Presumably it 's also a lot to do with isolation , a lot to do with the fact that there was no one to talk to about the sexual experiences you were having and the only surrounding attitude was one of , ‘ This is something which should n't happen ’ , whereas the situation when I had my first sexual experience was one where I knew other people who were gay whom I could talk to . |
| 29 | I learned to play in the billiard rooms of the hotels Yorkshire used round the country when I began my cricket career . |
| 30 | She was walking into the hotel when she heard his car start up . |