Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] when [pron] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus conditions not in themselves inhuman or degrading became so when they were combined with other bad conditions . |
| 2 | ‘ What rotten luck , ’ Daisy said , putting on the upper-class voice that she used only when she was feeling guarded . |
| 3 | Their frequent meetings gradually heaped oblivion on Tina 's remark and if Cecilia never entirely forgot it , it surfaced only when something was said that dug into that particular muddy accumulation . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , Da Silva , the quiet , arch-backed Portuguese man , who had suffered such ill treatment , wandered off when nobody was looking . |
| 5 | You know when you shouted earlier when we were changing the room round ? |
| 6 | ‘ But father did n't approve of the game , and if ever he came in when we were playing it , we 'd stop at once and pretend to be talking about something else . |
| 7 | No , I just came in when you were saying |
| 8 | ‘ 'E came in when I was turning down 'is bed , ’ she volunteered , curtsying to Rose in fright , somewhat muddled between his ranking and that of the Prince of Wales . |
| 9 | This pastime attracted such an enthusiastic following that several of the better equipped European brothels provided chambers decorated like railway carriages which shuddered and vibrated mechanically when they were occupied , as well as resounding with chugging and whistling sound effects . |
| 10 | I came back when they were unwrapping me . ’ |
| 11 | The pincurl technique came about when I was doing a show in America and I was landed with a model with hair down her back which was in a terrible state . |
| 12 | The strained relations between Russia and Japan deteriorated further when it was reported that the Sakhalin provincial authorities had decided to grant a contract to a Hong Kong company for a development project on Shikotan , one of the disputed islands . |
| 13 | The benefit conferred upon the taxpayers was one which logically followed only when it was determined that there were surplus places and the authorities of the college in their discretion agreed to admit the taxpayers ' children to these places . |
| 14 | and finished in when I was doing a , a late training programme |
| 15 | The ‘ presents ’ and the ‘ gifts ’ were those we exchanged daily when we were writing poetry together — presents which , unlike those of my childhood , did not break as soon as touched . |
| 16 | The French international , whose spectacular skills inspired chants of ‘ Ooh , aah , Cantona ’ at his last club Leeds Utd , is said to have been sold because he walked out when he was dropped from the team . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm very pleased to have this competition going between you and Ellis , ’ remarked Amiss when they were settled in comfortable chairs . |
| 18 | In the second incident , a thirty year old screamed and fought back when she was attacked in Groundwell Road . |
| 19 | And , to complete his heartbreak , his car broke down when he was looking for his ninth win of the season at the Italian Grand Prix . |
| 20 | The thing that worked best when we were going through an investigation was to get individual kids to come and explain it … mind you they made such a racket applauding them when they 'd finished etc. , but I felt they were listening more carefully to them than they were to me ! |
| 21 | He worked out when he was born , wanted to know the time of day , when the worker would return and when he would see his wife again . |
| 22 | It must have been their sheer size and the impression of power you got even when they were standing still . |
| 23 | Two or three times I fell down when I was wearing it , that was outside in the market place . |
| 24 | The partnership had opened a new phosphorus plant in Oldbury in Worcestershire in 1851 , which Albright took over when it was dissolved at the end of 1854 . |
| 25 | I felt myself to be a source of pollution , and grew to dread my period , especially as I never knew exactly when it was going to come . |
| 26 | What we tend to do is to brief ourselves very thoroughly on vulnerable spots in the world , and in countries where we already have links and where we 've worked before and we know the background because we , we feel we need that and we monitor very carefully certain events which could lead to a disaster , so that when the disaster does happen , like for instance the Ugandan famine of nineteen seventy-nine to eighty-one , we knew exactly when it was going to happen and we knew exactly where the people were , we knew who was going to be affected , we knew why they were affected , we knew where the food stocks were , we knew how long it was going to take to get so many thousand tonnes of food from A to B erm and how many trucks you would need . |
| 27 | I mean you look at , see I I 've had , I felt like when I was coughing at work I felt like sitting there and I thought I ca n't believe this . |
| 28 | The cheer that went up when it was realized that everyone was safely back almost made Grimma forget that they were safely back to a very unsafe place . |
| 29 | But Roberts discovered that it did not matter much where he grew up when he was driving through Southwark late one night on his way from work . |
| 30 | John knew when he was being lied to but knew also when he was wasting his time . |