Example sentences of "[adv] when [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the smile lasted less than a heartbeat and vanished entirely when she saw that fitzAlan continued to watch the small party until it disappeared from view . |
| 2 | Only when they captured last season 's Royal Liver League crown did prospects of All Ireland glory come into the equation . |
| 3 | Only when we had that row did I realize how much the wish to please her had come into it . |
| 4 | She nearly brought the house down when I scrounged another biscuit and put her through her repertoire of tricks . |
| 5 | My grandad was a barber and my mother was a hairdresser so they taught me how to cut hair and it came in very useful , especially when I did National Service . |
| 6 | So when we received persistent telephone calls from our clients asking whether we had heard that all was not well with the horse , we had to take a view . |
| 7 | After a year at training college to qualify as a teacher , he had two years at a comprehensive school in St Neots , Hunts. , but he wanted to achieve much more as a music teacher and did so when he became assistant director at Sevenoaks . |
| 8 | It happened when I was forced on to a very low fat diet for health reasons ( I had a gall bladder that grumbled very painfully when I ate fatty food ) . |
| 9 | Racal proved this conclusively when it announced last spring that it was planning to sell off part of the Vodafone mobile telecoms operation . |
| 10 | Tolkien did best when he kept mythic invention on the borderline between literal story and a wider suggestiveness ( Fangorn , Bombadil , Lúthien , Roads and Rings ) ; too conscious an approach to ‘ mythopoeia ’ would have ended only in allegory . |
| 11 | JUST when you thought frilly knicker and bra design had gone as far as it could , Sherwood Group is set to go further . |
| 12 | And of course , when Corrie left , changed into her new suit , her mother , emotional after the ceremony , had had another little upset at the fact that she was going away too , just when she needed some comfort for one daughter 's departure . |
| 13 | Perhaps Mr. Gordon had good reason to feel sore with Mandy , who had chosen to step into the bog just when he wanted Brown Owl to be thinking about becoming his wife . |
| 14 | The union then supported me further when I got another job and was a steward there , a branch secretary a district committee member and then on the regional committee and they also helped to put me through polytechnic and into the job that I did looking at mergers at the University of Warwick . |
| 15 | Cardiff elbowed Duvall aside when he recognised that figure immediately . |
| 16 | As always when she sang this song her eyes were moist , and when she had finished the applause did not come immediately , but there was that magic moment of silence that sometimes links a performer and an audience . |
| 17 | The virus could only be triggered off when someone wanted classified information on our files . |
| 18 | ‘ If you were a gentleman , you would have just backed off when you saw this place was taken ! ’ |
| 19 | but I saw him on the television last week , breakfast T V , not last week , week before , just before I got into work , and this woman on the television asking this stupid question , she said why do n't you put any opposition up in Parliament , and he hit the roof , but what the television did , they did n't switch off when he played bloody hell with 'em , excuse my French er President , but this is how it went , he could n't give a damn about you bloody lot , he kept the television on , it just showed his frustration . |
| 20 | Then later , couple of months later when we found that list checked that we understood what the list meant and we presented that list to our church meeting . |
| 21 | They 'd cruised past when they arrived that afternoon , just after four o'clock , and seen Tommy standing on the doorstep . |
| 22 | But I say that , they 've got no right to just change your , your name over , I mean , basically , really and truthfully when we got this place Rudy were n't on , on , he never signed on on nothing |
| 23 | TV 's former Minder Dennis Waterman tried to keep his armour up when he joined new partner Leslie Ash yesterday . |
| 24 | My regard for things Gaelic shot up when I heard that story . |
| 25 | He skipped out when they sent old Polgar to the chokey , eh ? ’ |
| 26 | I got some more sedatives in anticipation , and eventually had to turn him out when he decided one night that enough was enough and kicked several large holes in the stable wall . |
| 27 | He still was n't back when I returned that night , and when I woke the next morning , his side of the bed had n't been slept in . |
| 28 | I sit scratching my head wondering what 's happened , and he puffs on one of those stinking cigars , telling me it was , obvious this would happen right back when I moved that pawn . |
| 29 | Did you get any money back when you took that box of crisps back that time ? |
| 30 | Now when you had that bundle of handouts that are all stapled together |