Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] [art] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The game ends when everyone finds the hiding place . |
| 2 | When I reach the passenger window I knock on it . |
| 3 | I thought that I had finished third , but when I studied the television slow-motion replay on the stadium scoreboard I could see that in fact Ray had won the bronze medal . |
| 4 | Now , I can hold my liquor as well as the next man , so it is ludicrous to suggest that when I reversed the club van into the tea hut I was under the influence . |
| 5 | That all stopped when I got a back injury at school . |
| 6 | I say to daddy , when I got the money mate and I 've now I 'm now putting ten pound a week for fat Harry . |
| 7 | Mansell , paid £8 million a year , added : ‘ When I got the puncture warning I thought I 'd had it . |
| 8 | When I knit a stocking stitch tension square , instead of marking the 21st stitch on each side of centre 0 on the 30th row , I transfer these stitches at the beginning of the swatch , placing them on to needle number 22 on each side and pushing the empty 21st needles to non-working position . |
| 9 | ‘ Once I was driving up High Street East in Sunderland with a local priest when I saw a furniture van ahead with its ramp down . |
| 10 | Hall reported : ’ … when I saw a vapour trail and warned my Section Leader who manoeuvred for position , scanning the sky for enemy fighters . |
| 11 | The officer 's evidence will probably be in the following terms : ‘ I had a good view of the zebra crossing when I saw a pedestrian step on to the crossing limits from the footpath outside the Town Hall and walk about one third of the way across the crossing when the defendant drove in front of the pedestrian etc . ’ |
| 12 | I almost had a Vulcan mind melt when I saw the colour graphics on this version of Star Trek . |
| 13 | I almost had a Vulcan mind melt when I saw the colour graphics on this version of Star Trek . |
| 14 | I sat there a long time , bored , with a cold bottom , and I was about to open the pub door to tell him I was going home when I saw the organ grinder trundling his barrel-organ down the street . |
| 15 | I was half way up the road when I saw the fire engine come . |
| 16 | I thought within myself , ‘ With what eyes these poets see nature ! ’ and ever after , when I saw the sun-set stream upon the objects facing it , conceived I had made a discovery , or thanked Mr Wordsworth for having made one for me ! |
| 17 | There are those like Bernard Taylor , professor of business policy at Henley Management College , who raise serious doubts about it : ‘ When I hear the word empowerment , I reach for my gun , because it 's one of those cosy words . |
| 18 | When I hear the word empowerment , I reach for my gun , because it 's one of those cosy words . |
| 19 | ‘ Centurion Coins ’ is the name I traded under when I had a coin shop at Wimborne for ten years , and subsequently premises at Christchurch for two years . |
| 20 | ‘ At that moment … when I had the TV sound off , I was in a 382 mood ; I had just dialled it . |
| 21 | If I 'd not had Louisa I do n't suppose I would have pushed myself when I had the job interview . |
| 22 | I was dismayed when I heard the Home Secretary 's statement . |
| 23 | ‘ When I heard the Cup competition had no sponsor , I approached Executive Support Manager Allan Paterson who passed the request on to Production Director Peter Robinson . ’ |
| 24 | Especially when I know an inferiority complex when I see one . |
| 25 | When I told the museum official that I had met David Damiani , his eyes opened wider with interest . |
| 26 | Imagine my disgust when I told the car park attendant of the delays , only to be informed that I must pay for two hours parking , as ‘ That is what is on the computer . ’ |
| 27 | To speak personally , I might have found life easier , though possibly less interesting , if the English synthesis had continued to exist in approximately the same state as when I became a university teacher at the end of the 1950s : a genuine humane discipline , self-respecting , enjoyable , expanding , with methods that were established and familiar , if subject to variation between the different emphases associated with Oxford and Cambridge . |
| 28 | When I became a freelance writer in 1989 , I finally found a career which could accommodate wanderlust . |
| 29 | When I put the wine glasses on their table , Mercer and Filmer were discussing world-wide breeding in terms of exchange rates . |
| 30 | I 'd popped into the library to get a book renewed and when I left the college building I saw her walking along the road on her own . ’ |