Example sentences of "and when a [noun sg] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She began to unpack , trying to puzzle things out , and when a knock came on the door she opened it without thinking , her mind still elsewhere . |
| 2 | The king and his judges were already acting on the assumption that all ecclesiastical endowments within the realm were originally held by and from the crown , to which they should therefore revert if and when a church failed of its purpose . |
| 3 | All they needed was the proof , and when a photographer hired by a down-market Sunday newspaper caught the Princess of Wales emerging from her friend Kate Menzies 's mews house during the early hours of the morning with David Waterhouse , and fooling around in the quiet road , they thought they had it . |
| 4 | Thus placemen tended to take their cue from party chieftains rather than from the sovereign or Court , and when a party fell from power there usually followed a purge of its placemen . |
| 5 | And when a death occurred in a family or a community , mourning would be a ritualistic affair . |
| 6 | And when a car collided with a stationary vehicle , listeners were told it had encountered a van full of envelopes and other items of stationery ! |
| 7 | I started work with a fishmonger or a hawker rather r round the streets and when a woman cried over the window for fish I ran up the stairs and delivered it . |