Example sentences of "[vb past] in [noun] when [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her eyebrows rose in astonishment when she saw that somebody had taken her parking place . |
| 2 | He wore a black uniform with a black cap and had a very black face due to the coal dust which rose in clouds when he shovelled coal into the engine . |
| 3 | The following morning , Lucien nearly retched in horror when he walked into the practise court and saw Amber Epipheny conversing with Resenence Jeopardy . |
| 4 | In his haste to get away he grated the gears and the wheels shrieked in protest when he failed to balance the-changeover between clutch and accelerator . |
| 5 | You know how he 'll behave because you 'd behave the same , ’ she sneered scathingly , then yelped in alarm when he curved a large hand round her neck and urged her roughly towards him , giving Hilary little choice but to climb on to the fork . |
| 6 | Edgar thanked the Danes for their support and allowed them to live under such laws as they might choose , and it must be significant that Swegen landed in Lincolnshire when he made his bid for the kingship in 1013 , and that in 1066 King Harald of Norway made for York , where he had hopes that the citizens would assist him in his endeavours . |
| 7 | Gary helped him with his chemistry and deserves much of the credit for the good grades William got in tests when he got back ( the teachers were amazed ! ) . |
| 8 | She got in trouble when I got home . |
| 9 | On 27 October 1846 he died in Preston when he burst a blood vessel during a fit of coughing , and was buried in St Peter 's churchyard , Preston . |
| 10 | It 's two years since the world recoiled in horror when they saw Ceaucescu 's orphans . |
| 11 | But he recoiled in disgust when she came near him . |
| 12 | Like lying on one 's back as we did in Spain when we slept out looking up between the fig-branches into the star-corridors , the great seas and oceans of stars . |
| 13 | A more important point is that passages of this sort , spliced as they are with images like the lizard from the immediate foreground of Pound 's tent inside the wire-mesh cage of the prison camp , do not come into being out of the free associations of idle reverie , though in these Pisan cantos Pound exploits the illusion of that , as Joyce did in Ulysses when he pretended to transport himself and us into the mind of Leopold Bloom . |
| 14 | He could feel a slight erection coming on — the sort he had in bars when he met good-time girls . |
| 15 | Speaking of that , I wonder just what the hon. Gentleman had in mind when he tabled this question . |
| 16 | Perhaps this attitude of ‘ cooling it ’ , ‘ turning off ’ , ‘ keeping his head down ’ , ‘ disengaging ’ on the part of the failing student is a special case of what Roy Cox ( 1967 ) had in mind when he said : ‘ It is clear that where students are assessed in a way which is not seen to be relevant to what they are aiming at they will tend to distort and degrade the assessment so that it does not become a source of esteem . ’ |
| 17 | It is not clear what Croom-Johnson J. had in mind when he said that there was a requirement of ‘ hostile intent , ’ and the observation has been doubted and explained subsequently . |
| 18 | This is the sort of procedure that Wimsatt had in mind when he said ( 1958 : 149 ) that ‘ poetry is that type of verbal structure where truth of reference or correspondence reaches a maximum degree of fusion with truth of coherence — or where external and internal relation are intimately mutual reflections ’ . |
| 19 | Is this what counsel had in mind when he argued that consideration ( for example , relief from the penalty ) did not ‘ move from the promisee ? ’ |
| 20 | Before sleeping I wonder what Pascal had in mind when he wrote in the Pensées : ‘ Time heals griefs and quarrels , for we change and are no longer the same persons . |
| 21 | It was binding as mere furniture that Burns had in mind when he wrote : |
| 22 | Were these the woods , I wondered , that Kingsley had in mind when he wrote of Tom 's escape from Ellie 's little white bedroom ? |
| 23 | One hopes that is not what Crane had in mind when he credited Williams 's poems with ‘ charm ’ . |
| 24 | It may have been this group Professor Ashton had in mind when he drew attention to the way in which London banks played a role in making available the " savings of agriculturalists ' to provide " much of the investment in manufacture " . |
| 25 | Hayek believes that all spontaneous social orders have these knowledge-bearing or information-carrying characteristics ; that is , precisely the characteristics which Adam Smith had in mind when he referred to the ‘ invisible hand ’ of the market . |
| 26 | In answer to the hon. Gentleman 's point about travel — which is what I think that he had in mind when he referred to ’ communication ’ — by hon. Members to European Community institutions , I hope to table the necessary resolutions very soon . |
| 27 | This must be the sort of writing that Crane had in mind when he applauded Williams ( still rather grudgingly , however ) for sometimes attaining ‘ the classic manner of the old Chinese poets ’ . |
| 28 | Pound had known Phyllis Bottome between 1905 and 1907 , when they were fellow students at the University of Pennsylvania , and it 's not clear whether it is that early association , or a period later when she had caught up with him in London , that Phyllis Bottome had in mind when she wrote of how Pound tried to transform her as a writer from a talented amateur into a professional : |
| 29 | ‘ It was n't exactly what I had in mind when I asked the council if I could donate some money for a seat in the park ’ |
| 30 | So our having the tape-recorder is affecting the quality of Mrs Padmore 's life — which , however , has an indirect effect on the quality of our life , given the I think not unreasonable premise that an improvement in the quality of someone else 's life offers us some kind of pleasure or satisfaction , or at any rate spares us discomfort or guilt ; though whether this is what I had in mind when I borrowed the tape-recorder this morning I think unlikely . |