Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] when [pers pn] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every hundred metres or so when we met the road zigzagging its six kilometres to the top we turned to the landscape : huge conical mountains with valleys that knit together as neatly as in a child 's drawing . |
| 2 | And so when they changed the character to be twenty five in the film which w Mi Mike 's age , it totally changed the piece , totally and completely changed the piece . |
| 3 | ‘ It had always been her ambition to go to the Holy Land and so when I arranged the trip I told her ‘ Right , now you 're going ’ . |
| 4 | It was L-shaped and only when he reached the comer of the ‘ L ’ could he see the whole of the room . |
| 5 | Only on his way home did he suddenly realize that illness could have prevented her from meeting him , and only when he entered the farmhouse that evening did he discover that she was dead . |
| 6 | And also when I took the measurement , I took actually took it |
| 7 | Herluin , when finally he did touch , touched as if the vellum might burn him , timidly and convulsively , and even when he had the book open , for better or worse , agonized a few moments over where to choose on the page , shifting from recto to verso and back again before settling . |
| 8 | And then when we had the brainstorm , as I said . |
| 9 | This was a bar that er went under the bomb like that when they fastened them up , and then when they dropped the bombs this bar was in a clip , like where me finger is , i in a clip so when they released them it dropped out of this clip the bar went as well of course , down that went down went the bomb drop bars with it used to be make them day and night and things like that and er of course there was er Bloxwich Lock and Stamping we used to do odd stamping , odd forgings and things li and er that was other part of the war work . |
| 10 | Sometimes the German fighters followed the bombers back to their bases , and then when they saw the flare path light up for a few brief moments to guide the homecoming aircraft down , they would open up with their guns . |
| 11 | Now the sides of the hold and the , the chains used go down , they did n't have wires they had chains go down and with a big ring on the top and then when you 'd the door out , knock the pin out and the door would drop down the mud and cos the ship would come up because she got two side tanks on er a tank each side to bring the ship out of the water . |
| 12 | And indeed when she reached the parish church she received a moment of instant gratification at the sight of her dear friend Lizzie Braithwaite looking far from her best in a regal but positively strident magenta . |
| 13 | Nothing , however , flew , and yet when he opened the closed hand , it was empty . |
| 14 | I see now how wrong I was , and yet when I told the king that without resorting to such action I would still be in the granite quarries and so unable to do his bidding , he understood and forgave me . |
| 15 | But only when I reached the washed sky of the Thames did I dare to pull over and negotiate my fear . |
| 16 | But just when we thought the evenings might get a bit boring . |
| 17 | But just when it seemed the writing was about to be put back up on the wall , Kendall found an unlikely saviour . |
| 18 | Er , perhaps I could make er one comment , maybe Mr Gordon will ma wish to make a a technical comment on it , but certainly when we began the programme and we discussed with the other nations in the early stages of of the collaboration . |