Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] when [pron] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The five workers were dismissed when they refused to accept the demotions . |
| 2 | BRAVE police were attacked when they tried to save a motorist from a 1,000 strong ‘ lynch mob ’ . |
| 3 | On my mother 's instructions , I always refused any drinks that were offered when we went to visit her . |
| 4 | Kenjayev resigned both as Chair of the Supreme Soviet and as Presidium member on April 22 on the release by the opposition of 16 deputies and two deputy ministers whom it had taken hostage on April 21 ( having issued an ultimatum ) ; they were released when they agreed to press for Kenjayev 's resignation . |
| 5 | Holland 's own interest in music was aroused when he learned to play the piano as a boy . |
| 6 | ‘ I hear your husband was blackballed when he tried to join the Country Club . |
| 7 | The company that sent in the bailiffs , Bristow and Sutor , say they 're conducting an enquiry ; Mr Hoad 's arm was broken when he tried to prevent the bailiffs taking away a car . |
| 8 | Karen McCafferty , 17 , was punished when she failed to memorise duty procedures . |
| 9 | A STOWAWAY who jumped ship was caught when he tried to call relatives in North Africa from a motorway phone . |
| 10 | Yousefi was caught when he tried to cash a cheque at a London bank but the name of Garawand was on a defaulters list . |
| 11 | He was caught when she tried to pay an 80p supermarket bill with a forged £20 note . |
| 12 | The last tour of India was cancelled when they refused to allow Graham Gooch to lead England because he had toured South Africa . |
| 13 | Savage said he was rescued by members of the militant Pan Africanist Congress and army soldiers after he was attacked when he stopped to help children caught up in unrest between striking taxi drivers and police . |
| 14 | The final act of betrayal by William 's ministers was committed when they failed to call Parliament within twenty days of his death ( a violation of the Act of Security of 1696 ) , so that the Privy Council would have time to declare war on France without facing opposition from the Scottish Parliament . |
| 15 | The excitement was intensified when it became known that some time previously a railway clerk named Winter , who kept a black retriever , had shot himself in the porter 's cellar but Durham had claimed that he was unaware of the tragedy when he had encountered the ghost . |
| 16 | The slick threatened conservation zones and five islands supporting seabirds and colonies of Australian sea lions , but a major ecological disaster was avoided when it began drifting out to sea . |
| 17 | The alarm was raised when they failed to turn up at their destination at 1pm . |
| 18 | The alarm was raised when she went missing after Christmas celebrations . |
| 19 | The alarm was raised when she failed to turn up for a meeting with students . |
| 20 | The alarm was raised when he failed to return home after a pottery class . |
| 21 | Anderson , twice winner of the North of Ireland , and once the South , was hurt when he failed to make the 1989 team which won at Peach Tree . |
| 22 | The 28-year-old thief was arrested when he returned to collect his dog which he had left tied up outside the shop during the raid . |
| 23 | He was an experienced member of a well-drilled team , but was killed when he became tangled up with a colleague . |
| 24 | A paying guest was killed when he tried to get to the bar on the first floor by an emergency staircase . |
| 25 | In the 1860s the first policeman ever sent to the fen village of Wicken was killed when he tried to break up a Saturday night brawl . |
| 26 | As soon they come back I reckon it was conceived when they went skiing in the week . |
| 27 | The father denied the accusations , and Morgan was imprisoned when she refused to grant access or reveal the location of their child . |