Example sentences of "was [adj] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roirbak was aghast when he saw what had happened to Mellissa . |
| 2 | He was aghast when he read it , for the problem was one that he had already solved 15 years before . |
| 3 | ‘ My agent was aghast when I did Freejack . |
| 4 | Tom was aghast when he saw the bagpipes . |
| 5 | Again , just as in 1771 , Elizabeth Titford was pregnant when it struck ; her last son Charles was born within a week of Woodforde 's ominous comment about his barometer — little wonder , then , that the poor child was dead inside three weeks . |
| 6 | She suspected that she was pregnant when she began seeing Alan , but this was only confirmed when she had to go for a check-up because Alan had a urinal infection . |
| 7 | " I knew she was pregnant when we started going out . |
| 8 | Jacqueline Moore was pregnant when sentenced and her eight-year-daughter Nikki was the first child born in a Northern Ireland prison . |
| 9 | She went on : ‘ I felt I 'd only believe I was pregnant when I could see it . |
| 10 | and that 's why if you remember she was pregnant when we met her |
| 11 | Speed was a bit of a non event ( although he did score a goal ! ) and Deane lumbered about a bit , but was strong when he got the ball . |
| 12 | Her face was wrinkled with age but she looked friendly and her voice was pleasant when I heard her talk to the men . |
| 13 | Shaw , then , was alive when he lived , which is more than you can say of some people . |
| 14 | MacQuillan was alive when I left him and in fighting form . ’ |
| 15 | Probably nobody in Congress was alive when it was first said . |
| 16 | But reports say he was alive when rescuers picked him up . |
| 17 | Balcon , for one , was not aware of any frustration on the part of his filmmakers , unless he was dishonest when remarking in his autobiography , ‘ It is puzzling to me in retrospect that none of my films … in any way reflected the despair of the times in which we were living . ’ |
| 18 | Oldham 's joy was complete when , 10 minutes later , the effervescent Ritchie fed Irwin and then ran on to head home the full-back 's cross for his second goal and Oldham 's third . |
| 19 | The home team 's comeback was complete when Ford cross to the far post and Paul Read 's low header gave him his 17th goal of the season . |
| 20 | The moment was complete when I realised that the action had also cured my arthritis and that I had n't needed the strategically-placed piece of double-sided sticky tape . |
| 21 | Their misery was complete when the previous night vandals had visited their camp site and caused considerable damage , including slitting the Cartwrights ' tent . |
| 22 | Boro 's woe was complete when Hernandez Patxi saved the final penalty from £750,000 striker Andy Paton in the shoot-out . |
| 23 | And their misery was complete when Mike Marsh became their third player to be dismissed in Europe this season . |
| 24 | Its organization was similar in that it was controlled by persons of relatively high social status , that ransoming was a major source of profit , and that the transporting of animals over long distances was usual when a payment was not forthcoming . |
| 25 | I think I was dry when I touched the side . ’ |
| 26 | Although it was dry when I visited it , Kirk Pot in the Upper Kirk is a deep pool in flood conditions . |
| 27 | Around one quarter of Rodin 's work was unpublished when he died and the casts and moulds became the property of the Musée Rodin which also inherited property rights and ‘ Le droit moral ’ , the right under French law to defend an artist 's reputation . |
| 28 | But it was strange when it first began . |
| 29 | Everyone was supportive when I dried up on my one and only line and we had to do it again . |
| 30 | ‘ I reckon Hatton was right when he called you an old woman , Cullam . ’ |