Example sentences of "when [pron] was [verb] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doreen Ditchburn , an eighty-three year old widow , was walking home when she was robbed by two attackers and pushed to the ground , breaking her leg . |
| 2 | Phyllisia faced many trials while she was growing up in Harlem , the first occurred when she was mocked by other pupils in her class , they called her ‘ Monkey chaser ’ and ‘ Teachers pet ’ because she was cleverer than the others . |
| 3 | The bomb had a lengthy fuse attached to it , and when it was discovered by one of the schoolboys , the fuse was burnt almost up to the bomb . |
| 4 | At the technical level the Chinese continued to rely on quartz sand , the abrasive used in each of the other centres of jade-working , up to the Tang dynasty , when it was reinforced by crushed garnet ( Mohs 7.5 ) . |
| 5 | The high point of this reverence was undoubtedly when it was cheered by countless thousands as it travelled down Sydney 's George Street in a full-blown ticker-tape parade . |
| 6 | And at the bottom of a deep open pit , up whose ramped sides labour belching trucks , he vividly describes how sea water percolated down through the space above our heads when it was occupied by still-hot lava and how , laden with dissolved sulphide minerals , this heated fluid gushed back to the surface , struck cold sea water and deposited its minerals . |
| 7 | President James Madison , who occupied the White House when it was burned by British troops in 1814 , probably thought the British overdid their visit . |
| 8 | He was reviled as a so-called atheist but otherwise his thought received little attention , only becoming a main force in philosophy when it was rediscovered by German philosophers in the nineteenth century . |
| 9 | The buxom , ginger-haired woman also had a shady past , and it did little to help the poor woman 's image when it was resurrected by two regular carmen . |
| 10 | Trades unionism , functioning in its proper field , was an asset to the whole community , but when it was used by ambitious men for their own ends it was a danger . |
| 11 | When compared with intermittent auscultation alone continuous electronic fetal heart rate monitoring doubled rates of caesarean section for ‘ fetal distress ’ even when it was complemented by selective fetal blood sampling and pH estimation ; the rate was quadrupled when monitoring was used alone . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , much smaller North West neighbour Liverpool is looking to continue building up domestic and regional aviation-related business following its becoming the first local authority-owned airport to transfer from the public to private sector when it was bought by British Aerospace in 1990 . |
| 13 | But in Britain Marxism still had no more than minimal adherence and we must look rather to the re-emergence of the Labour Party from a decade in the shadows , when it was riven by international faction and uncertainty over international pacifism and rearmament . |
| 14 | A Council of Europe convention on minority languages in Europe was opened for signature on Nov. 5 , when it was signed by 11 of the 27 member states . |
| 15 | During a parliamentary session on March 7-9 Walesa suffered his first major legislative setback when he was defeated by substantial majorities in several votes . |
| 16 | CHARLTON Heston was at a Republican party rally when he was asked by one of those ghastly eight-year-old American kids for his autograph . |
| 17 | It will be a sweet moment for Emburey whose tour seemed doomed when he was savaged by various Indian batsmen in the early games , Test opener Navjot Sidhu hitting him for eight sixes in the second three-day warm-up fixture at Lucknow . |
| 18 | Holyfield 's sensitivity outside the ring , which left him genuinely touched when he was recognised by non-boxing people in Barcelona during this year 's Olympics , extends to the criticism that champions in all sport have to learn to live with . |
| 19 | After taking out a bank loan , the 21-year-old DJ came close to quitting his pop quest when he was rejected by TEN record companies . |
| 20 | Prison officer seriously injured when he was attacked by loyalist inmates at Ulster 's top security Maze Prison . |
| 21 | Pizan writes : ‘ When he was occupied by some task and not at leisure to present his lectures to his students , he would send Novella , his daughter , in his place to lecture to the students from his chair . ’ |
| 22 | He was walking along Suffolk Parade to the post office to draw his pension , when he was approached by two youths . |