Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] when [pron] [verb] " in BNC.

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1	It came to nothing and the two settled for the broadbrush alliance on the PowerPC RISC and the creation of Taligent Inc and Kaleida Inc , but it now seems clear that the idea of the big one still appeals to John Sculley , and according to the Independent on Sunday , Sculley was very much considered as the successor to John Akers , but his terms were that IBM sell the mainframe business and merge with Apple to create a profitable $30,000m a year company , and the courage of the outside directors failed them when they considered what announcement of such a deal might do to the IBM share price .
2	She jumped round the room with a newspaper club and splattered them when they settled .
3	She summoned the Protestant preachers to come to Stirling on 10 May , and outlawed them when they refused .
4	When he asked me when they opened .
5	We got them when we packed up your mother 's house .
6	I ca n't imagine how I would have survived without good friends who sustained me when I turned up weeping in the middle of the night .
7	They are exactly as the computer drew them when they evolved inside it .
8	I reported them when I went up but whether there was any success in the things I just do n't know .
9	‘ Old Amos botched me when he made me from his seed .
10	You caught me when I staged dived and looked after me when I got knocked in the eye .
11	( I must tell here the story of a charming American lady who approached me when I had just given a talk on regression therapy .
12	And so it came to be that the bewitching gesture of her father 's secretary walking down the golden path ( which bewitched me when I saw the woman in the swimsuit take leave of the lifeguard ) had completely gone to sleep in her .
13	They punished you when you did the wrong thing , and they rewarded you when , when , when they did , when you did the right thing .
14	The Bishop of Lincoln thought it ridiculous that this powerful engine which was Michael Ramsey should be used in a tiny little parish , and said so , but blessed him when he found he wanted to go .
15	A woman starting her twelfth pregnancy says her mother scolded her when she heard : ‘ You will die ! ’
16	Police traced him when he posed as a buyer to ask for brochures and prices .
17	Josie found her when she turned in for work at the club that evening .
18	His niece , Cathy Carne , found him when she came back to open the shop after lunch .
19	‘ I found him when I came back from lunch .
20	Another young man told me how a Lubavitch rabbi helped him when he got into trouble with the police .
21	Speak roughly to your little boy , And beat him when he sneezes , He only does it to annoy , Because he knows it teases .
22	Fear almost stopped her when she thought of this , but she would n't give in to it , for she could see the smoke billowing up .
23	gave me an unofficial interview at his cottage , but I offended him when I said I really wanted to study French !
24	Once or twice I caught the N.C.O. staring at me with an expression of hate and disgust but he never maintained it when I stared back , and would look suddenly out of the window or at the papers in the portfolio he was carrying .
25	Was that had we and I know we mentioned it when we met last time , but was that really we 're including in E O work with the unemployed .
26	I cracked it when I put it in .
27	Yes that used to but sometimes they used to bring it up the river and they use a lot the ballast we er did dredge for erm , for the first part of Cliff Quay , used it when they built that .
28	My father used it when he came to America for a new start in life . ’
29	Gordon Brown used it when he talked about the need for an industrial policy .
30	The second one shows it in the condition in which her parents found it when they went in there on that morning a few days ago ’ ( p. 156–7 ) .

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