Example sentences of "[coord] when [pers pn] [verb] take " in BNC.

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1 The attacker claimed that Carter had threatened him with the knife and when he tried to take it from him , Carter had been wounded .
2 And when he bent to take off his boots , she said , ‘ You 're wringin' . ’
3 And when he tries to take
4 But when they began to take an interpretive attitude toward their conventional practices , the situation became much more complicated .
5 Okay you can sort those out but when we get to take aways it goes a little bit odd does n't it .
6 But when I rung to take it , for them to take it back they had a special offer on and it was twelve weeks for forty pu , pa , you know , were doing it cheap
7 He drew me into the family circle , laughing , telling his mother of my struggles , of the broken door , but when I started to take my veil off he would n't have it and insisted that I keep it on .
8 ‘ Oh , but when you have taken your tablet and had a good rest , you will be perfectly all right , has Doctor Sparrow not told you ?
9 But when he went to take his seat again on the settle , she said , ‘ There 's no need for you to hang about ; get yourself away .
10 Myles took the tall silk hat from his head and the stick from his hand , but when he offered to take off his overcoat , Father Poole waved him away .
11 The widowed queen was granted Stirling castle as a residence , but when she tried to take her son there the Keeper of Edinburgh Castle held on to him until she contrived to smuggle him out .
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