Example sentences of "[adv] when they saw [art] " in BNC.

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1 They were all crossing together when they saw the skid , the boy on the motorbike , out of control and ploughing towards the sedate black Morris Minor .
2 Only when they saw the hooded men with blood-covered knives approaching their cars did they realise what lay in store for them .
3 But the longer Ross remained unpromoted , the more offended his friends would become , especially when they saw the sons of other freeholders advanced in rank .
4 They had spilled halfway across the road , and although most of them shuffled quickly aside when they saw the car approaching , four boys gathered themselves quickly into a group and remained standing defiantly in its path .
5 We spent a day ashore on Barentsøya where the Dutch party went off inland on their own and met up with a polar bear with two cubs , which ran off when they saw the party .
6 Moi children who had heard the noise of their approach came running helter-skelter to surround them and began shouting excitedly when they saw the dead deer .
7 Sometimes the German fighters followed the bombers back to their bases , and then when they saw the flare path light up for a few brief moments to guide the homecoming aircraft down , they would open up with their guns .
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