Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] when [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Constance asked timidly when she heard the voice at the other end . |
| 2 | My heart was pounding and realisation sank in when I saw the needle being prepared to go into MY arm . |
| 3 | She stopped suddenly when she saw a stranger in the kitchen . |
| 4 | They moved in when they outgrew a caravan on the site . |
| 5 | ‘ We only found out when we saw the Daily Mirror , ’ said Craig , who lives with Julie and their three other children in Luton , Beds . |
| 6 | When they rebel it causes trouble , as Natalya , 40 , found out when she became a successful property dealer in St Petersburg . |
| 7 | FRANKE SLOOTHAAK 'S fortunes changed abruptly when he won the Everest Grand Prix , the closing contest of The Horse of the Year Show at Wembley , for the second year in succession . |
| 8 | The row erupted again when he won the Nobel last year , and the citation named the offending work . |
| 9 | No lights came on when they tried the switch just inside the heavy oak door , but a minute 's search with a flashlight found the main fusebox further in along the wall . |
| 10 | And also , if she came in when I had the triplets it meant that erm you know , she was sitting talking to me when I wanted to be playing with them and taking them out and getting on with doing things with them . |
| 11 | It came just when we thought the powerful combination of Horan and Jason Little had produced the try of the day , the latter making a typically powerful break to send Horan gliding between the posts with the Baa-Baas defence dismantled . |
| 12 | He looked round sharply then exhaled deeply when he saw the man 's face peering in at him . |
| 13 | One afternoon he came home when she had the tape on . |
| 14 | For me personally there was an epilogue to the story which came about when we bought a house in Edinburgh a year or two later . |
| 15 | As I say which came about when they built the flats and filled those . |
| 16 | It was a wild time , and even the old women were poachers , he said , with the aid of a harmless looking dog that barked only when they reached the cottage with a fresh killed rabbit . |
| 17 | And in the houses of fashionable people , men sometimes turned away when he entered a room . |
| 18 | Annadale 's decision to fly Gary Lough over from Loughborough University paid off when he grabbed a double in the 1,500 and 800 metres . |
| 19 | She thought it was empty at first , but someone was putting fresh flowers on the altar , and turned quickly when she heard the door close . |
| 20 | it turned out when he put the phone down , he said well there 's a turn up , there she is |
| 21 | About five years , I joined there when I left the |
| 22 | Despite the restyling , underneath the RV8 is still an MGB ; the car the company killed off when it closed the MG factory at Abingdon 11 years ago . |
| 23 | Conservative MPs cheered when he entered the chamber of the Commons yesterday and cheered again when he borrowed a phrase from Harold Macmillan to dismiss Norman Lamont 's vitriolic attack on his governance as a ‘ little local difficulty . ’ |
| 24 | The same feeling broke in when I read an answer that the President of Venezuela gave at a press I conference . |
| 25 | Well , I started , but packed up when I broke a fingernail . |
| 26 | We had to be careful when we called round to feed them , though , in case they flew out when we opened the door . |
| 27 | Mr. Russell lost out when he received a 6p rise which put him above the income support level . |
| 28 | He swore softly when he saw the fear flash in her eyes . |
| 29 | KKR said that if Hillsborough could not refinance the debt it took on when it launched a $2.4billion leveraged takeover in the building industry , it might have to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy . |
| 30 | Cos you do n't know how much she took away when she took the testicles out . |