Example sentences of "was [verb] when [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scums strength in depth was exposed when you see they had Ferguson and Dublin on the bench . |
| 2 | She was fascinated when he said he came from London — as far as she was concerned he might as well have come from the Moon , because she had as little likelihood of ever visiting either . ’ |
| 3 | A COMPUTER expert was sacked when he handcuffed himself to his woman boss while she was on the phone to a customer . |
| 4 | Bruce Kent , chair of CND , was cheered when he declared his belief that nuclear weapons did nothing for Britain 's security . |
| 5 | I was devastated when he said he fancied me but we 've started a relationship . |
| 6 | He was devastated when he discovered his premises had been attacked for the second time . |
| 7 | Wickham had been proud of her , and was devastated when she said they should separate . |
| 8 | The woman had become suicidally depressed while pregnant with her previous two children and was devastated when she found herself accidentally pregnant again . |
| 9 | I was shattered when I met you last . |
| 10 | He was laughing when he said it . |
| 11 | Derek Cantwell was attacked when he opened his front door late at night . |
| 12 | He was looking when I scored my first ever strike . |
| 13 | As Jim Smith 's side recovered from their epic tie with Liverpool , Beresford said he was misunderstood when he revealed he wanted to play Premier League football next season . |
| 14 | ‘ He was gobsmacked when I told him mine was a replica . ’ |
| 15 | Always a footballing footballer , even when under pressure in defence , Derek 's quality was there for all to see and the appreciation of the Palace fans was shown when they elected him as our Player of the Year in 1975 . |
| 16 | ‘ That little mistake was corrected when you got my note this morning , as you know very well ! ’ |
| 17 | He was lying when he said he 'd checked the house . |
| 18 | The door was closed when he reached it but it was not locked . |
| 19 | ‘ The only way to find out would be to get the police to check it against the one he was wearing when they found him . ’ |
| 20 | I 'm wearing a blue prison-issue shirt — open-neck , of course — and the jeans I was wearing when they arrested me . |
| 21 | In one case , which has still to come to trial , it is not clear which hat the salesman was wearing when he made his deals : his own or the life company 's . |
| 22 | I just knew I was inspired when I proposed you for this job here , that it would come back to me in some incredible way . |
| 23 | The Tiso retail empire was born when he opened his first climbing shop in Edinburgh in 1962 . |
| 24 | Party Politics , known as an equine giant in racing circles because of his massive size , was cruising when he took it up four fences from home , and winning jockey Carl Llewellyn later admitted that his chief concern at that stage had been striking the front too early . |
| 25 | No confusion was found when they tested them against 200 different isolates of the same , but genetically unmodified , bacterium taken from lake water . |
| 26 | In 1945 she was tried in a Chinese military court as a traitor , but was acquitted when she admitted her Japanese nationality and described how politically naive she was . |
| 27 | I 'll ask him if he was joking when he said there was a wild animal in my woods . |
| 28 | I thought my friend , Irena , was joking when she dragged me , sloshing and sliding , towards the highway . |
| 29 | Peter took the end of a candle from his pocket , and his hand was shaking when he lit it with a match . |
| 30 | ‘ I only knew I was playing when we had our warm-up just before the kick-off , and I simply was n't prepared for starting the match . |