Example sentences of "[pron] when [art] [noun] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Men from the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders berthed on the ship and on one occasion she had war scars inflicted on her when a bomb fell on Portland Place and debris rained down on the top deck gouging pieces out of the timbers . |
| 2 | She was about to answer him when a hand appeared on the steward 's shoulder and drew him back sharply . |
| 3 | I only hit him when the situation looked like getting out of hand . ’ |
| 4 | Dominic Sass had some of his unpublished works with him when the plane crashed near Katmandhu . |
| 5 | Charlotte did get the position of nanny and often travelled on the same train home on her days off , always in the first compartment behind the tender and always hoping that she would see Albert , which she often did and she leaned out of the window to talk to him when the train stopped in the stations . |
| 6 | The House of Lords passed an amendment to this effect , but the government overturned it when the legislation returned to the Commons . |
| 7 | He holed from five feet to force a play-off , but lost it when the pair returned to the seventeenth , by missing the green and fluffing a recovery chip halfway to the hole . |
| 8 | The Fawcett family were very brave about it when the telegram came from the War Office . |
| 9 | Not surprisingly the Germans would accept this , they had proposed it when the Commission had by turns been denying the existence of damage in West Germany and demanding proof based on a single pollutant ( rather than multiple stress ) . |
| 10 | It belonged to my grandfather , but he lost it when the Creditanstalt crashed in the twenties . |
| 11 | Doreen could n't believe it when the letter popped through her letterbox from the council . |
| 12 | When she put her hand to her hair she felt small twigs and she was hastily removing them when a car slid to a halt beside her . |
| 13 | In Shrewsbury our lord abbot has given orders to seek out all those who came to help us when the river rose into the church . |