Example sentences of "when a [noun] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fierce tank battle raged in the western approaches to the Bosnian capital Sarajevo and Bosnian radio reported that 18 children had been wounded and one killed when a shell hit their school . |
| 2 | When a tour brought them to Johannesburg , Herbert took John to a performance and afterwards asked whether they could be shown how everything worked . |
| 3 | DIPLOMATS were stranded in lifts when a snake coiled itself round power cables and blew the fuses at a conference in Tanzania . |
| 4 | But a local councillor , who asked not to be named , said : ‘ It started when a driver parked his lorry by the box while he used the phone . |
| 5 | The nine-year-old tearaway was arrested when a driver caught him trying to get into his car by sliding through the sunroof . |
| 6 | CHART stars Pop Will Eat Itself blew up when a mix-up stopped them appearing in Sweden . |
| 7 | After a long session trying on clothes , she was walking out with her purchases when a man tapped her on the shoulder and asked her to go back into the shop . |
| 8 | The peasants who cultivated the land became its owners and proprietors and a new law of inheritance was established by which when a man died his land was equally divided among his sons . |
| 9 | She was walking home near Colbayns School when a man approached her and asked the time . |
| 10 | ONE of Cleveland 's new all-weather fire and rescue vehicles swung into action when a man broke his leg on the Eston Hills . |
| 11 | Chief Constable Burrows was outside his club in Friar Street when a fellow-member approached him and suggested he looked into the whereabouts of Philip Drew , an actor who was performing in a play called The Monster at Reading 's Royal Theatre at the time of the Oliver murder . |
| 12 | She only escaped when a passer-by heard her screams |
| 13 | After the glimpse of Scandinavia through Riborg , and later the experience of Hungary , Jane was so far carried away by her enthusiasm for classless freedom , the beauty of northern landscapes , plus the humorous awareness of the central European people , that when a Finn crossed her path , she was fair game . |
| 14 | My lesson lasted about half the time of Tony 's , terminating as he was explaining the purpose of the deadman 's handle to me when a gust filled his chute and hauled him off in fine style . |
| 15 | An Edinburgh postman 's second wife protested when a cousin congratulated her on the birth of her first step-grandchild , ‘ You 'll be a granny now . ’ |
| 16 | It was the custom at that time that when a worker married he was allowed to make himself a chair in the company 's time ; this was called a ‘ marriage chair ’ . |
| 17 | The chief minister of Maharashtra recently had to resign when a court indicted him for using his powers to speed up cement deliveries to people who gave money to his private foundation . |
| 18 | OPERA buffs made sure the show went on when a storm hit their open-air Carmen — they moved into a cowshed . |
| 19 | When a storm disabled his ship in 1654 he was dismayed by the thought that God might have judged him unworthy to be an instrument . |
| 20 | When a friend asked me the car 's name I answered at once — Anastasia Fyodorovna Romanova , Princess of all the Russias . |
| 21 | Veronica Sive 's interest in photography began at university when a friend suggested she ‘ look carefully through the lens ’ . |
| 22 | Veronica Sive 's interest in photography began at university , 10 years ago when a friend suggested she ‘ look carefully through the lens , it 's a new world out there ’ . |
| 23 | This fact could not be concealed any more than I could conceal , when a friend invited me to stay with her during the holidays in Yorkshire , that my parents could n't afford the train fare . |
| 24 | When a friend invited her to attend one of the Christian community study groups , she was deeply impressed by the contrast and decided to join the community : |
| 25 | Harry Enfield discovered opera a few years ago when a friend gave him a disc of highlights from ‘ La Traviata ’ . |
| 26 | He was threading his way along the side of a steep and thickly wooded declivity when a voice hailed him from the other side . |
| 27 | At midday , we were standing in the stern when a voice hailed us from an upper deck . |
| 28 | The we means ‘ someone in my group ’ , and when a Zuwayi used we in this sense , the reference group was small and was likely to include his own ancestors and relatives , men he could name in a line of descent which included both speaker and audience , which explained the existence and identity of each person , and provided them with a character and loyalties . |
| 29 | At night we sometimes heard their frenzied barking when a leopard disturbed them . |
| 30 | He always looked pleased when a case interested him . |