Example sentences of "[noun prp] when it [vb past] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The Cavalier was being followed through Milton Keynes when it turned into the cul-de-sac and hit the wall at about 50 miles an hour .
2 Ramsay and Fraser reckoned that perhaps one-third might desert Dunbar when it came to the crunch .
3 The view that almost everyone except the Commission subscribed to was summed up a few years later by the UN Economic Commission for Europe when it wrote in a report on damage surveys in many countries : ‘ Research results obtained so far indicate that air pollution is an essential , causal factor in the destabilisation of forests or even in the breakdown of some forest ecosystems . ’
4 They were strapped into car seats in their parents Metro when it crashed into a Pontiac near Burford after heavy rain last September .
5 Five-month-old Charles Goodchild , from Nanpean , near St Austell , was in the front of the family 's Ford Sierra when it crashed with a lorry near Liskeard , Cornwall .
6 Alan Stewart , who 'd been arrested by police six months ago and questioned about allegations of indecency , was on the staff of New Barns School at Toddington in Gloucestershire when it closed in the autumn .
7 Director Alvin Rakoff had problems with Crawford when it came to a crucial , very dramatic scene that he shared with Donald Pleasence , who was playing the police officer who could see a way to nailing the crook whom he had been trying to get for twenty years through his son .
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