Example sentences of "when a [noun] [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We used this door when a ghost came on or went off in a cloud of smoke . |
| 2 | Traffic was delayed and a short stretch of the A66 eastbound closed when a lorry tipped over in Cleveland yesterday . |
| 3 | In 1958 , Doisneau was photographing a shepherd and his flock when a lorry careered out of control , killing a number of sheep and the shepherd 's two dogs . |
| 4 | He had been in a pub in Hammersmith when a hypnotist jumped on to a low podium and put on a show . |
| 5 | when a cinder shot up |
| 6 | ‘ Jock ’ Hilton Barber was not flying on this date , and saw what happened from the ground : ‘ I was swimming when a battle started overhead . |
| 7 | But as the painting was not yet dry he kept it in his room , and when a buyer came unexpectedly to see Modigliani and offered him ten francs for her portrait he took the money . |
| 8 | And when a race did n't work out for me and I went home despondent , he would be there , not critical , just there . |
| 9 | I remember one morning some friends of mine were fast asleep on the beach when a tractor drove along to rake up the sand . |
| 10 | Hunt had recently been down on his luck and one day , whilst trying to interest publishers in his drawings , had been walking the streets with a portfolio under his arm when a taxi drew up with Francis Bacon inside . |
| 11 | When a policewoman got out of the vehicle he rammed it and drove straight into a wall which was demolished . |
| 12 | We 'd been providing cover for the convoy , when a vehicle went over a land mine . |
| 13 | At the last minute Reg Seekings had to drop out as he had injured his hand when a detonator exploded prematurely . |
| 14 | The woman screamed when a man got in beside her . |
| 15 | We were feeling rather disgruntled at how many good films we 'd obviously missed when a man came on to the stage to read the nominations for one of the categories . |
| 16 | We were trying to decipher the remainder , when a man came out . |
| 17 | I was just going out when a man came in and asked the same question . |
| 18 | But when a man came in last night and threatened her with a knife , shop assistant Parveen Akhter decided enough was enough . |
| 19 | It was hard , when a man worked as hard as he did , making money for her — yes , and with an ache in his heart — that she should sit there , looking — as if she saw the walls of the room closing in . |
| 20 | And yet … there was a night , long ago now , when a mist came in off the sea ; we slept uneasily , then woke in the dark , to hear the cold whine of sea magic in the air . |
| 21 | Measures : reading a scale 53 per cent correctly read a scale when a division did not represent a single unit . |
| 22 | A race held across land , on water and through the air came up with an unlikely winner , when a steamroller took on a hot air balloon and a narrow boat to see which was the fastest . |
| 23 | The 17 year old youth was at Banbury 's social services department with his sister , when a row broke out with another man . |
| 24 | Only 365 people turned up and to add insult to injury , the lights had to be turned on in the second half when a storm blew up , plunging the ground into darkness . |
| 25 | The girl , who can not be named for legal reasons , had been left alone when a friend went home . |
| 26 | On one of her adventures , she was in Tokyo having sex with a local man in her flat when a friend rang up asking , ‘ Did you feel the earth move ? ’ |
| 27 | When a foreigner did so , unmarried , poor , with no connections , he added unimaginable presumption to an already serious matter . |
| 28 | Jean Sparse , Toddington Drive , Norton , Stockton : I was 16 years old and working in my late father 's general dealers shop in Hartlepool when a customer came in and said the King had died . |
| 29 | When a Masai owned up to cattle raiding and invited punishment he did so in a spirit , not of insolent defiance , but of self-respect . |
| 30 | As an actor , Penn had a similar philosophy about the press , and when a photographer became too persistent , Penn decked him . |