Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] when [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roger exclaimed when he opened the door . |
| 2 | The Imperial troops posted to defend the river gates from Kislev fled when they saw the green horde stretched out across the horizon and advancing at full speed towards them . |
| 3 | He found a ‘ poor fishing town ’ which had retreated on to the cliffs to avoid the winter storms ; but it was far better situated than Daniel Defoe allowed when he visited the coast in the 1720s . |
| 4 | They entered the Lawnmarket and Corbett shivered when he saw the gibbet and its rotten , swaying human fruit , black figures against the moonlit , summer night sky . |
| 5 | But this in essence is just what Pooh did when he inferred the same belief about honey from his direct observation of bees . |
| 6 | 160 , the visitors observed that Lord Denning was not using the word ‘ delegate ’ in the narrow sense in which it is sometimes used today any more than Lord Mansfield had when he used the same word in a similar context in Rex v. Benchers of Gray 's Inn , 1 Doug . |
| 7 | An example of this was the abuse which Harvey received when he demonstrated the system of blood circulation in the body because what he had discovered was not in accordance with what Galen had said . |
| 8 | What Dilys Powell missed when she described The Wicked Lady as a concatenation of ‘ the hoary , the tedious , the disagreeable , ’ as did other critics who saw Gainsborough 's films as a reassertion of an old escapist tendency in British cinema , was how much of an advance such films offered on everything of a similar sort that had gone before , and how they touched the sentiments of audiences who could no longer respond to stories of gallant endeavour quite as they could when it seemed that defeat was an imminent possibility . |
| 9 | Zurachina turned when she heard the sound of approaching footsteps . |
| 10 | Stephen asked when they left the man , but Joe thought it was unlikely . |
| 11 | Bryce exclaimed when he found the box of batteries he 'd come in search of . |
| 12 | LIBERAL Democrats meeting in Harrogate jeered when they heard the news . |
| 13 | And I have to say that cos Mr ca n't answer that , that is how the western community of Harrogate felt when they saw the way that this public consultation document was led . |
| 14 | Nehru wept when he saw the clause accepting safeguards . |
| 15 | Gregson smiled when he saw the look on Finn 's face . |
| 16 | Minnie wept when she heard the news and willingly accompanied Julia to see their mother . |
| 17 | " Cheers , " Timothy Gedge said when she opened the hall door . |
| 18 | Water , the original substance which God created when he made the world , represents change , and immersing oneself in a natural body of water is the only way of changing one 's spiritual identity . |
| 19 | ‘ Rascals , ’ Fat Watt said when he noticed the far-off plumes of smoke , and stumbled off as though everything had been said that could be said . |
| 20 | ‘ Quite simple really , ’ Daphne replied when I put the same question to her that evening . |
| 21 | As Piaget said when he reported the original finding , trying to explain the children 's behaviour away by saying that they ‘ misinterpret the question ’ is circular : of course they are misinterpreting the question and the next question is about cognitive determinants of this misinterpretation — this ‘ non-conservation ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm astonished , Loretta , ’ Tracey said when she described the raid on Puddephat 's rooms . |
| 23 | Kenneth smiled when he saw the hand-painted sign at the outskirts of the village that said , ‘ Thank You . ’ |
| 24 | As well as candles , the company provided stoves and lanterns for troops in the Crimean war , Rangoon oil for lubricating rifles , and the Motorine oil which Rolls-Royce used when it won the Isle of Man TT race in 1906 . |
| 25 | Yanto laughed when he realised the old joker had palmed the sawdust and was allowing it to trickle in such a way as to give the impression that it was trickling from his ear . |
| 26 | ‘ So that 's how it is , ’ Ben said when they reached the car . |
| 27 | But a lot of the impetus has come from the cash Thorn paid when he sold the record company . |
| 28 | And that 's not what Paul meant when he said the body of a what ! |
| 29 | Despite himself , Bishop shivered when he heard the flat intonation of Tiw Heimdall 's voice . |
| 30 | Swede Helen Alfredsson 's successful season in both Europe and America continued when she won the IBM Ladies ' Open in Stockholm . |