Example sentences of "a [noun sg] when they [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As always , Ideal Constitutions for Ireland must wobble a bit when they come to Ulster . |
| 2 | A police spokesman said : ‘ The woman and a colleague , recently joined and under instruction , were answering a call to a burglary when they came across the incident involving a taxi driver and his fare . |
| 3 | I put it to Andy that it must have been a blow when they split in 1988 , but he , ever the voice of reason , says , ‘ There was no point in trying to keep them together , it had gone as far as they wanted it to go and they wanted to do something different . |
| 4 | The nurses here wrote down every day on Stephen 's chart how many hours he had cried , but neither Sloan nor Dr Turner turned a hair when they looked at that on the chart ; all they cared about was the weight curve . |
| 5 | They crossed a zebra-crossing when they came to the promenade and turned right , leaving the harbour and the fish-packing station behind them . |
| 6 | She was still sitting motionless as a hare when they returned from the concert . |
| 7 | Yeah , it 's a shame when they get like that though , then to be put in a home . |
| 8 | All the older ones were put back a grade when they moved to Queensland . |
| 9 | They 'd had a fright when they ran into the tramp . |
| 10 | Queen 's students union vice president and accommodation officer Joanne Richards said many students will get a shock when they return from the summer holidays . |
| 11 | Although I 'd rung on the Thursday and they said his kidneys were failing , it still came as a shock when they rang on the Saturday at 9.30 in the morning to say he 'd died . |
| 12 | Dr Courtney was also found guilty of drugging and raping a woman who went to him for advice about work , and indecently assaulting a German student and a 17-year-old when they went to his surgery for part-time jobs . |
| 13 | Later Pakistani UN troops killed a Somali when they fired into a crowd demonstrating against the military strike . |
| 14 | Well perhaps we ought to give people a s a a list a piece of paper and a pencil when they come into church one day , and say , Write down all the words that you hear today , or sing today that you do not understand . |
| 15 | TV soap star Sue Nicholls has put off her wedding to actor Mark Eden — because there was a queue when they went to a London register office . |
| 16 | The Scots had a visitor when they trained at Fort Stanley yesterday — their international stand-off , Craig Chalmers , who is here on holiday , a guest of a local architect , Jimmy Gibson , who hails from Ardrossan . |
| 17 | Sir Hector explained that the French representatives had found themselves out on a limb when they called for an increase in import charges . |
| 18 | In the nineteen twenties water workers were laying a pipe when they came across this skeleton . |
| 19 | Small-time south London villains have a habit of getting above themselves and they usually come a cropper when they tangle with the East End families or the heavy mobs dealing in drugs . |
| 20 | Nigel , 34 , and his girl-friend Brix Smith both created a stir when they arrived for the ceremony . |