Example sentences of "when [noun] [noun] come [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | George Dunlop , of Linfield , preferred to Allen McKnight , held out for 42 minutes , but when Fort Dunlop came under siege , the defences were found wanting , and the only Irish-based player on the field was at fault for the important first goal . |
| 2 | So that when Von Lemke came to ‘ us ’ as governor and felt himself overwhelmed by ‘ our ’ troubles and scandal ; s , he had no toy-making to turn to , he had nowhere to go — his version of the abiding Dostoevsky extremity — and in fact he went mad . |
| 3 | As I rounded Ardmair Bay , the sky was bright but as I reached the scattered cottages and crofts of Strath Kanaird , none with an invitation to halt or stop , ominous yellow clouds formed overhead , obviously heralding a storm , and when Stac Polly came into sight , there was a spiralling column like a tornado above it . |
| 4 | The attack started when Miss Batey came into the room and called her husband an animal . |
| 5 | Afghans , he went on , had been optimistic when Miss Bhutto came to power but she had betrayed all her promises to settle the Afghan conflict . |
| 6 | ‘ So when Gustav Eismark came to the Secretariat , ’ Sims went on , ‘ naturally we looked in the files about him . |
| 7 | This strategy appeared to receive a boost a week after his conference , when Chancellor Adenauer came to Paris to sign the Franco-German treaty . |
| 8 | ‘ When Sidney Poitier comes to London we still dine at Odin 's — the only difference being , I now own it . ’ |
| 9 | The companies say that if they are not allowed to produce HCFCs and HFCs for long enough to make a return on their investment , users will face a crisis when CFC manufacturing comes to a halt in the late 1990s . |
| 10 | He was a member of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Serbia , but was expelled from the Party when President Milosevic came to power . |
| 11 | And why was Mr Rochester so frightened when Mr Mason came to Thornfield ? |
| 12 | Anyhow , he got a few horses from Besthorpe Hall , and one or two of the little farms ; and he jogged along until the time came when Mr Flowerdew came into Diss on a market day , and he saw my grandfather . |
| 13 | When Mr Moore comes through the door |
| 14 | When Glen Baxter came for a signing session , we sold 80 copies of his book — a modest number perhaps for a shop of this size , but sales of his ‘ spin-off ’ goods amounted to a further 40% of the shop 's turnover that day and brought us some 16% over our sales target for that week . |
| 15 | When Harold Wilson came to office , one Polaris submarine was cancelled , but the programme continued and Labour sought a consensus with other political parties and played an enormous role in NATO . |
| 16 | On 15 September 1984 Charles was once again by Diana 's side at St Mary 's Hospital when Prince Harry came into the world . |
| 17 | A difficult moment for me occurred when Phil Collins came on the show , simply because what I knew but he did n't , was that he was going to be my first guest on This Is Your Life the following week . |
| 18 | Ted joined the Palace from Hull City in December 1911 and immediately scored a hat-trick on his debut ( one of only four Palace men ever to achieve this feat ) at West Ham on 30 December ( 6–1 ) , and then repeated the feat a week later when Bristol Rovers came to The Palace ( 4–1 ) . |
| 19 | She was absorbed in a letter when Mervyn Cantrell came into the room . |
| 20 | Patrick Robertson was eleven years old when Mrs Thatcher came to power . |
| 21 | Yet when Mrs Thatcher came to power , he was virtually unknown . |
| 22 | When Mrs Thatcher came to power in May 1979 , union power was at its height and British industry was going through the crippling after effects of the winter of discontent |
| 23 | When Mrs Welch came to this country , she did a crash course in English and then a post graduate course at Durham University before becoming a translator for British Steel and local industries . |
| 24 | However , when Anne Wright came to Sunderland from Merseyside , it was not only the quality of life that impressed , but also the quality of light . |
| 25 | Fourth , when draft legislation came before the Main Committee in 1860 Alexander stood firm for change in the face of obdurate resistance from aristocrats . |
| 26 | When Robertson Nicoll came to England in the 1880s he went to Dawlish where he complained : ‘ Dissent here is nowhere … |
| 27 | But when Ronald Reagan came to Washington a year later , another government department , the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) , looked at the same evidence and decided not to limit most other , potentially higher human exposures to the chemical . |
| 28 | So that when John-William Dallam came into the room it was to find his womenfolk as he most liked to see them , cheerful comfortable , and under his roof safely and securely together . |
| 29 | Even when stereo records came on the market , binaural remained a gimmick . |
| 30 | At Fourstones , north-east of Haydon Bridge , a wheel house adjoins the engine house built to replace it when steam engines came into use for threshing . |