Example sentences of "[coord] [vb pp] when [pron] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The animals were chased across a field and drowned when they tried to escape by jumping into a brook . |
| 2 | Many elderly people become so deeply attached to their animals , however , that when they lose them they go through a very real and depressing bereavement experience ; so every effort should be made to help them to keep their animals properly fed , groomed and exercised when they begin to find this difficult to cope with themselves . |
| 3 | TWO police officers were punched and kicked when they went to investigate a minor road accident , a court heard yesterday . |
| 4 | One after another they stepped up and gripped the stump of chalk which snapped in their fingers as soon as it was pressed to the board , sputtered and crumbled when they tried to move it , or let out a squeak to turn the teeth round in your gums . |
| 5 | Boswell employs over a thousand words to describe the Monboddo visit , which began around mid-day , and ended when they had to leave for Aberdeen which they did not reach until late that night . |
| 6 | His second victim was drugged and raped when she went to see him for advice about work three months later . |
| 7 | And then on 10 April 1544 came Henry 's chilling order to his brother-in-law Edward , earl of Hertford , to put all to fire and sword , burn Edinburgh town , so razed and defaced when you have sacked and gotten what ye can of it , as there may remain forever a perpetual memory of the vengeance of God lightened upon ( them ) for their falsehood and disloyalty … and as many towns and villages about Edinburgh as ye may conveniently , sack Leith and burn and subvert it and all the rest , putting man , woman and child to fire and sword , without exception where any resistance shall be made against you ; and this done , pass over to the Fifeland and extend like extremities and destructions in all towns and villages whereunto you may reach conveniently , not forgetting among all the rest so to spoil and turn upside down the Cardinal 's town of St Andrews , as the upper stone may be the nether , and not one stick stand by another , sparing no creature alive within the same … |