Example sentences of "[adv] when [pron] [adv] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why , she asked herself , was she allowing this magnetic package of male virility to get under her skin , especially when she hardly knew him ? |
| 2 | Originally a Norse term for GOBLINS who attacked sleepers , robbing them of their faculties so when they finally awoke they were bereft of speech . |
| 3 | Just when I never had my thing . |
| 4 | She threw herself into his arms , sighing deeply when he half-heartedly returned her embrace . |
| 5 | It was 10.00pm when we finally found our car . |
| 6 | I was given anti- depressants , that did n't help and it was n't until four years later when they actually admitted me to hospital and then an ulcer and the depression disappeared once it had been diagnosed . |
| 7 | It was 4.30 a.m. when I finally said my farewell to the French family and their very charming daughter . |
| 8 | If you ask people to describe the times in their lives when they learned something about themselves it is often when someone else told them about the impact or bearing they observed they had in a situation . |
| 9 | ‘ The national interest ’ was also a rebuff to congressmen , who could not afford to be critical of it , even when they already knew it as grounds to keep them in the dark . |
| 10 | There were times when she did n't mind Star 's anger , times even when she deliberately provoked it , waiting with half-shameful excitement for the extra-ordinary outburst of bitterness and despair of which she herself was less a victim than a privileged spectator , relishing even more the inevitable remorse and self-incrimination , the sweetness of reconciliation . |
| 11 | He pushed her away , but quickly clung to her again when he almost lost his balance . |
| 12 | I hate that man , she told herself vigorously when she eventually forced herself to sit down and jigsaw the jumbled fragments of her emotions into place . |
| 13 | She complained bitterly when he virtually ignored her during a ball to celebrate the Queen Mother 's 80th birthday at Windsor Castle . |