Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [noun] when [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The public were placed in fear when they were expecting to be shopping peacefully . |
| 2 | But Harriet 's tears were eased at Bodelwyddan when she met Huggy Bear , the mascot of Clwyd 's Playsafe campaign . |
| 3 | It seems the Nocenzis were eating with friends when they were stricken — sharing from the same serving bowls , the same ricepot . |
| 4 | They were hanging around town when they met and now they see each other about five times a week . |
| 5 | Voting will not be announced until this morning — but gay campaigners were cheered by delegates when they protested that the party 's policy review had replaced a commitment to ‘ full equality ’ for gays with ‘ greater equality ’ . |
| 6 | THREE boy bandits were filled with shame when they saw pictures of their bungled wages snatch in the Daily Mirror , a court heard yesterday . |
| 7 | Might he have been despatched by those means , other than useless lawyers , which were considered by Sandra when she wrote the list ? |
| 8 | The stab wounds were presented to Owen when he went down to inspect . |
| 9 | Nick , of nearby Radstock , said his family — wife Melanie and daughters Abigail , 12 , Beth , 10 and Charlotte , nine — were looking for feathers when they found the shoes . |
| 10 | said you would n't believe they were made in England when you look at the |
| 11 | War with England ( 1796–1802 ) was a sheer disaster , revealing all the inherent weaknesses of Spain 's position in the American market ; American ports were opened to neutrals when it became evident that Spain could no longer supply her colonies . |
| 12 | Elena Pavlovna and her principal advisers , Kiselev and August von Haxthausen , were waiting for Alexander when he arrived at Kissingen . |
| 13 | All the animals were waiting for Anabelle when she returned to Uncle Alfred 's nest on the other side of the canal . |
| 14 | Nurses who found her were reduced to tears when they read a heart-rending note pinned to her dress . |
| 15 | The selectors knew they were playing with fire when they decided to arrange a couple of club fixtures and they have duly been consumed in a conflagration of their own making . |
| 16 | We received a message by telephone that this was fine and that we were to get in touch when we were ready to take up the offer . |
| 17 | Ryan got the property at half the asking price , and the contracts were signed by proxy when he had returned to America . |
| 18 | The conclusions we characteristically reach about this were learned in childhood when we needed to make sense of the many confusing and contradictory recordings in our three ego-states . |
| 19 | Panofsky , who was Professor of art history at Hamburg University from 1926 to 1931 , was one of the many German intellectuals that were lost to Germany when he took up residence at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study in 1935 , having been forced to leave in 1933 . |
| 20 | A COOKSTOWN man was remanded on bail when he appeared at the local Magistrates Court yesterday charged with handling stolen goods valued at £20,000 . |
| 21 | Her short address was tinged with sadness when she referred to Christmas bringing ‘ its own painful stresses to so many people in need — the sick , the old , the handicapped and the homeless ’ . |
| 22 | She was singing on stage when we arrived and by the time I had reached my seat I said to the man who was with me , this is the Salome I have been looking for . |
| 23 | Beatrix Potter was holidaying in Gloucester when she learned of a local legend about a tailor called John Pritchard … who returned to work on a Monday morning to find an unfinished coat mysteriously completed over the weekend . |
| 24 | ‘ I was caught at Dunkirk when they thought they 'd won the bloody war . |
| 25 | The establishment of reserves to protect wildlife was accepted by hunters when it became clear that some species would soon be wiped out altogether . |
| 26 | Built about 1490 , the gatehouse actually pre-dates the foundation of the college , having been built as the entrance to King 's Hall which together with another ancient establishment , Michaelhouse , was incorporated into Trinity when it was founded . |
| 27 | Ltd. v. Hawkins ( 1859 ) 4 H. & N. 87 was authority for the proposition that it was an ordinary incident of all corporations ( including municipal corporations ) that they might sue for libel ; that case was only authority for the proposition that a trading company might sue for libel by which its property was injured ; ( 3 ) in holding that the Manchester Corporation case was decided per incuriam when there was no basis for so holding and he should have followed it ; ( 4 ) in holding that in bringing an action for libel not alleged to have caused actual damage , no valid distinction could be made between trading corporations and municipal corporations , which ignored the true basis on which a trading corporation was permitted to sue for libel , namely that it had a trading character , the defamation of which might ruin it : South Hetton Coal Co . Ltd. v. North-Eastern News Association Ltd. [ 1894 ] 1 Q.B. 133 , 145 . |
| 28 | Another theory says that Jesus was only apparently human , another that he was adopted by God when he died , and still another that his body was human but his personality was divine . |
| 29 | BELOW : Millend was gutted by fire when it was a maltings . |
| 30 | One Sunday morning , about a week after I had seen my dad for the second time , I was lying in bed when I heard voices in the street below . |