Example sentences of "'s [noun] [vb past] when [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Celia 's patience snapped when he poured her the second glass of retsina . |
| 2 | Mother-of-two Elaine Friend 's patience snapped when she discovered her husband 's affair with a housing officer in Gosport , Hants . |
| 3 | you never guess what Andy Spence 's mum did when I went up there for dinner once ? , it 's vile |
| 4 | Gabriel 's heart ached when he saw how completely Bathsheba trusted the soldier . |
| 5 | Corbett 's heart sank when he noticed this . |
| 6 | Charlie 's heart sank when he read the orders ; he knew the odds against surviving two attacks were virtually unknown . |
| 7 | Nutty 's eyes gleamed when she set eyes on the professional Sergeant Potter with four pistols in boxes and a load of shot and a thick wad of targets . |
| 8 | Beryl 's ordeal began when she phoned the police , who promised to fax her details to the motoring organisation . |
| 9 | The woman 's ordeal started when she answered a knock on the back door of her house and was confronted by the three . |
| 10 | The home side 's troubles started when they lost three key players in quick succession in the opening session to completely disrupt their pre-match tactics . |
| 11 | In 1914 , a member wrote in the suggestion book that the Professional 's shop be left open until after the 6.25 train to Paddington has left , and added that two visitors who had played and left their clubs to be cleaned by the caddies found the Professional 's shop closed when they went to collect them . |
| 12 | Julie 's problems started when she drank water originating from the Farmoor reservoir near Oxford , which has been found to contain the cryptosporidium organism . |
| 13 | Leith 's mutiny ebbed when she thought how ill and distraught Travis was making himself over his love , and the seed of an idea of appealing to Travis to save her job withered before it was half born . |
| 14 | But Elaine 's temper flared when she spotted Mr Friend in his Merc with a woman — and later saw his car outside her house late at night . |
| 15 | This was the view that Wellington 's army saw when they broke into France in 1814 , so beginning an extraordinary chapter in the town 's history . |
| 16 | And then there Further up the glen from me , from our , house there 's a place called Dalnasnecht It 's a little place in the beside the water and beyond it there 's a great piece of ground on the hill and it was called er Argyll 's Reed where Argy Where all Where Argyll 's men stayed when they came to burn down the bonny house early , Forter Castle . |