Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] when [pron] [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Constance could not decide whether or not his diffidence sprang from fear or indifference , and she found it puzzling that someone as confident as Nicky in every other area of his life should be so timid when it came to love . |
| 2 | Andrew Saxton , a champion weightlifter and major medal hope for Britain , was obviously upset when he emerged to protest his innocence against drug taking this afternoon . |
| 3 | Why had the Revolution given us all so little when we had sacrificed everything for it ? ’ |
| 4 | From time to time , too , Jenna caught Alain 's dark eyes watching her through the driving mirror , and she was greatly relieved when they began to skirt Paris . |
| 5 | Cara had made it sound so easy when she 'd said ‘ All I 'm asking is that you bring me back relevant facts and answers ’ . |
| 6 | She was assisted by Miss Walker , whom I liked very much , and I was so sad when she left to get married . |
| 7 | I also used to help him with his drink and biscuit and he would always drop his soggy biscuit over me but I was ever so sad when I finished going to the Mother and toddler group as that was my favourite part of the week . |
| 8 | It was only later when I came to reflect on this incident , that I recalled the man 's appearance . |
| 9 | What is so odd , though , is that Lewis was tempted to argue the faith , to analyse and defend it in a manner at once so roughshod and so cerebral when it had come to him by quite other means . |
| 10 | He had felt so proud when he had said goodbye to the veteran Hamman . |
| 11 | We were so excited when they started paying expenses but I never dreamt the sport would come on like it has . ’ |
| 12 | He glanced over her slowly from head to foot , taking in the sleeveless green cotton dress with its tight bodice and full skirt that had seemed so modest when she had put it on . |
| 13 | The contributors ' arguments became a little less convincing when they came to explain why mantras were used . |
| 14 | All the kids found it highly amusing when I had to climb up and fetch her . |
| 15 | True , it was astonishingly heavy when one came to lift it , but — as the philosophical cook observed — that was all to the good , as one slice would be enough ! |
| 16 | The first body , found in the Thames , was discovered accidentally by a bargee , who had been poling his way up the river and had been more than mildly surprised when he had brought his pole up from the river bed to find a sodden brown parcel on the end with a baby 's arm sticking out . |
| 17 | Shapes began to form as the colours settled into patterns , but the shapes were still indistinct when they started to move violently . |
| 18 | He was usually OK when he came to work . ’ |
| 19 | I can even remember when Finnegans Wake was thought to be incomprehensible and the gentleman sitting on my right , George Craig , is almost , but not quite , my contemporary at this university and I was genuinely delighted when he agreed to take on the herculean task of giving a lecture a centenary lecture on James Joyce . |
| 20 | But she was usually annoyed when she did get home . |
| 21 | He was even more baffled when he tried to convert some of his Duchy property in Kennington into small units for single teenagers — a group that finds it notoriously difficult to find accommodation — and met with vociferous local anger . |
| 22 | Archdeacon 's son and canon 's daughter-what could be more suitable when one came to think of it . |
| 23 | But he was clearly relieved when I agreed to accept it at his hands . |
| 24 | Twelfth-century English historians , writing during Eleanor 's own lifetime , were understandably cautious when they came to analyse her role in the revolt . |
| 25 | ‘ You 're only envious , and you know you were the most concerned when he had to lose almost a year to that fever . |
| 26 | Yet a certain Scottish poet was not far wrong when he described finishing one of that author 's novels as being like emerging from a thin shower of dandruff , unenlivened by even the slightest flash of mediocrity . |
| 27 | She wondered if she had been as particular when she 'd lived here . |
| 28 | She and Sheila had had disagreements before — not really surprising when you 'd known someone for twelve years , since the first day they had peered at the college noticeboard together . |
| 29 | When I was at college I did a pastiche of the student magazine , doing the fold , and it was called Shell , so we renamed it for that one issue Rolling Shell , and I ever so carefully did the lettering for both the title boxes , then I got really disappointed when it came to set the type for the front page article underneath the big photograph which we printed as duo tone , because I could do it on the I B M — I could actually do it in Times and I thought it was going to be really , you know , I 'd have to really struggle and find |
| 30 | The counsellor feared that would be the last she heard from him so she was pleasantly surprised when he did come the following week , bearing a letter from Susie in Denmark . |