Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] when [adj] " in BNC.

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1 They were being interviewed in two undisclosed police stations after the violent reaction of local people on Tuesday night when other youths were arrested .
2 The round mahogany table , friend of my childhood , under whose shelter I had lain and read ; whose clawed brass feet I had cleaned every Saturday morning when young , and then later , admiring them all the time — never having seen any other claws as fine or as lifelike as these .
3 A post office is invaluable because it can also act as a bank , not only during the week , but on Saturday mornings when normal banks are usually closed .
4 Captured by Blackfoot or Atsina Indians when accompanying buffalo-hunters to Montana in the late eighteenth century , she was sold to eastern Indians and then on to a French-Canadian at Red River .
5 Higher social groups appeared to make more use of health services in relation to need however ( Brotherston 1976 ; Forster 1976 ) and research published shortly after the Black Report argued that they also obtained a disproportionate share of NHS resources when ill ( Le Grand 1982 ) .
6 With midfield ball winner John Sayers out of action for at least 10 weeks after fracturing a bone in his leg in last Sunday 's disastrous home defeat by Cork , Derry were further rocked during a practice match on Thursday night when promising young forward Brian McCarron , promoted this season to the first squad , broke his leg .
7 On the June day when American presidential candidate Robert Kennedy was assassinated , emotions were high and Matthau exploded .
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