Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] when [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THIS is the book which Peter Mayle planned to write when he went to live in France . |
| 2 | Patrick pretended to hide when he saw Rain was after him . |
| 3 | They were the first big fish I tried to catch when I decided to be more selective with my fishing , and when I did catch a big chub on my first attempt it set the scene for my present angling outlook . |
| 4 | It was precisely this that John , duke of Bedford , the elder of Henry V 's surviving brothers , tried to do when he became regent of France on the death of the king . |
| 5 | African-Americans in South Central mostly hate Korean store owners and there 's no getting around the fact , as Jesse Jackson tried to do when he said the assaults on Koreans were not racist . |
| 6 | He promised to ring when he got back , but did n't . |
| 7 | Ms Gibson claimed she tried to telephone when she arrived in Marbella at the beginning of the month but could not get through because her friend 's number was engaged all night . |
| 8 | Happily drunk they tried to whisper when they saw ‘ a body ’ already in the room . |
| 9 | you when you learnt to drive when you came to reversing you 're told you must look |
| 10 | Ruth knew he was looking at the glint of Caer Wydyr , which even at this range was difficult to focus on ; like something seen in the corner of the eye , it seemed to disappear when you turned to look . |
| 11 | Jim Lancaster seemed to shrink when he saw Blanche . |
| 12 | Somehow the pins in her hair always seemed to escape when she lost her temper and the dark tresses whirled round her shoulders as she walked up and down Oswin 's bedroom . |
| 13 | You did n't have to focus some kind of internal microscope , as you seemed to do when I challenged you . |
| 14 | But things seemed to change when I went to Oxford . |
| 15 | Sisterhood seemed to stop when she became old . |
| 16 | This was the inheritance which Nicholas II ( 1894–1917 ) pledged to uphold when he ascended the throne . |
| 17 | I 've also I forgot to mention when you said i has anything happened to you ? |
| 18 | ‘ That 's what I forgot to get when I went to the market ! |
| 19 | This turned to despair when they discovered many male and female camp followers had not left with the army , but had decided to stay there . |
| 20 | This is the date England had originally set aside for a friendly against the Republic of Ireland in Dublin but which both Robson and Jack Charlton agreed to abandon when they found themselves paired in the same World Cup group . |
| 21 | They began to scream when they saw me , and their mother fainted . |
| 22 | In the final days before they met , Mother 's face began to harden when she sat and watched Boy and O , as if she was trying to push them together by sheer force of will power . |
| 23 | She was therefore a little disconcerted to find when they left the station that instead of waiting for a taxi Lady Selvedge began to stride away in the direction of Victoria Street , saying ‘ I know just the place for us to get a snack . |
| 24 | Lathered up , started to shave when I come to clean it there were n't a bloody blade in the bastards had pinched it . |
| 25 | There were more trucks around it , and also several humans that started to run when they saw the shadow of the Ship . |
| 26 | Same as you and , and Marje I their Marjie she started to cry when I went . |
| 27 | WREXHAM manager Brian Flynn said : ‘ We desperately needed to score when we dominated things in the second half but we caught a goalkeeper on a hot day . |
| 28 | The South African , once ranked in the world 's top 300 , decided to enter when she found herself in the north west for a three-months summer stay with her boyfriend 's family in Bolton , but was never seriously tested as Benmnett fell to her second consecutive defeat in the final . |
| 29 | Jean , who had been receiving fertility treatment , had gone into hospital for a scan but doctors decided to operate when she went into labour . |
| 30 | why techniques failed to score when you felt they should have |