Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] when [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , I nearly choked laughing when I heard you were doing a breakfast show . |
| 2 | She stopped singing when he knocked on the door , but he had to wait and knock a second time before she invited him in . |
| 3 | She stopped rehearsing when they reached the end of Act One . |
| 4 | I stopped dancing when I came |
| 5 | He stopped crying when they arrived at the house . |
| 6 | His kisses and cuddles soothed me , and I stopped crying when he said : ‘ He 's a bad dog , and I 'll give him a good hiding for that . ’ |
| 7 | He stopped reading when he saw her . |
| 8 | He only stopped working when he ate or slept . |
| 9 | Once the drip was up and the monitor was on I was much less mobile but as I gained confidence I learnt how to put the monitor back on if it stopped working when I moved . |
| 10 | It seemed speaking when you felt like it was a way to gain approval . |
| 11 | Yeah oh yeah I did n't work anywhere else in Willenhall at all , and erm but we 'd got to be in for seven o'clock and if erm you were n't in for seven o'clock and sometimes I used to hear the bell began ringing when I got to go around the corner and get into the , but you had to wait a quarter of an hour before they would let you in and that was stopped off your money and my wage was eight and fourpence a week . |
| 12 | It was the name she started using when she left home . ’ |
| 13 | If the first two rows started barfing when I took my shirt off , I would n't do it again … ’ |
| 14 | I started sweating when they called out the bloke ahead of me in the high jump . |
| 15 | My eyes were immediately attracted to the table and my mouth started watering when I saw the home-made cakes and jam tarts laid out on a white lace tablecloth . |
| 16 | Bursts with crime books on every possible felon and atrocity , which Cam Wolff started collecting when she retired as a Marks & Spencer hygienist . |
| 17 | But maybe you think of course I started rambling when I started off but er |
| 18 | Harry Burrows rode round his house on Midsummer Eve in a white sheet pretending to be a ghost , we nearly died laughing when he told us — ’ |
| 19 | But we got talking when I had to spend an afternoon in his laboratory checking reports for courts with his staff , and he was ever so nice . |