Example sentences of "[verb] when [pron] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She were laughing when I showed her that letter I got , cos she got one the same morning , , she said , and it said , and you can go round and talk to him . |
| 2 | He made toys that parodied her innocent amusements and those of her brothers and she trembled when he raised his leonine voice . |
| 3 | ‘ Come on , lazybones , it 's nearly dinner-time , ’ Otley scolded when he brought me some tea up . |
| 4 | Michael Heseltine , Environment secretary and former Prime Ministerial candidatem , was certain which he prefered when he met his Spitting Image Alter Ego . |
| 5 | Her inimitable use of rhythm caught many a class member on the wrong foot , but how spirits lifted when we got it right , and the ultimate but awful joy was being chosen to demonstrate . |
| 6 | Last December her suspension was briefly lifted when she won her first judicial review of her case in the High Court . |
| 7 | Yet , in Brooklyn , Beecher acted somewhat differently as Dickens found when he paid his last visit to America in 1868 . |
| 8 | Derek Cantwell was attacked when he opened his front door late at night . |
| 9 | ‘ Artful ’ because he was very clever at getting what he wanted ; and ‘ Dodger ’ because he was very good at not getting caught when he did something wrong . |
| 10 | On coach/air and coach touring holidays , all road tolls , ferry and port charges are included and on self-drive holidays , port charges are included when you book our special rate ferry tickets . |
| 11 | He was a great player , and he was just beginning to get the notoriety that he really deserved when he had his terrible car accident . ’ |
| 12 | What had she felt when she saw him dead ? |
| 13 | which often looks quite nice so that even if what you 've found does n't quite match up with what they 've found you can say well look you know these theories , ideas are need enriching , they 're a bit inadequate as they stand because what happens when somebody tells you this , what happens when somebody says this erm you know we can , we can revise them in the following way |
| 14 | What happens when you introduce something new to his familiar environment — for example , placing a brightly coloured cloth or jacket on the paddock fence , or hung over the pole of a small jump . |
| 15 | So far we have looked at what happens when someone loses something significant . |
| 16 | ‘ I said I wondered how she would feel when she knows her own sister is having a relationship with the man who left her … |
| 17 | Brombach confesses he gulped when he found it necessary in 1983 to invest 45 million marks to make a quantum leap to a capacity of a million hectolitres , at a new brewery on the edge of town . |
| 18 | He was looking when I scored my first ever strike . |
| 19 | And where Antoinette laid down guidelines — just as she had done when she advised her own daughter on Scottish affairs when Mary of Guise first went to Scotland — her son , the cardinal , filled in the details . |
| 20 | However , the time came when I wanted something bigger and better . |
| 21 | Er because appreciate when you introduce something new that 's costing a lot of money it can grow out of all proportion if you 're not careful and it 's much harder to take it away than it was to introduce in the first place . |
| 22 | ‘ You do realise you 're going to get the Press really going when they see you this evening , do n't you ? |
| 23 | No man could have been more gracious in victory ; champagne for the journalists ; a special bottle to the sports editor of the Surrey Herald who saved him from being disqualified when he mistook his first round starting-time ; personal thanks to the Royal and Ancient Secretary ; even a tip at the airport of a new sports shirt because he had spent all his pounds . |
| 24 | The problem began when I converted my 4 x 2 to 4 x 4 . |
| 25 | ‘ The habits are blessed when they make their final vows , ’ I said . |
| 26 | How would Nigel react when he saw their small semi-detached , in a row of identical houses ? |
| 27 | The Tiso retail empire was born when he opened his first climbing shop in Edinburgh in 1962 . |
| 28 | Patrick was just about to ask what she was going to do when he felt something cold touch his scalp — and then it was as if his head had caught fire . |
| 29 | What a voter is saying when he gives his first-preference vote to a particular candidate of a particular party is , " I want this candidate , of this party , to be elected " . |
| 30 | Yep , yep erm these officers are all trained in , in fire prevention work erm at the Fire Service 's technical college at Morton Marsh , and er they practise those skills they learn there over many years erm I 'm looking back , I mean the time that I spent in training schools and er and in , in the job er I suppose when you total it all up it must be two or three years away from home really , er in courses you know , in my day we went away on fire prevention training classes six months , six months ' course was the , so you went away to the Fire Service college which in those days was at Dorking , a lovely place in Dorking , and you did six months there solid , and then nowadays about thirteen weeks , the courses run about thirteen weeks , and you are constantly fire , fire officers from the ranks of erm probably a Sub Officer , leading fireman in some places , but Sub Officer onwards and particularly Station Officer up to the more senior ranks are away on courses regularly for , it 's really updating people erm new legislation coming in , new techniques coming in , erm which have to be these people have to be updated so they are very well trained , erm more so than most local authority people I would think , fire , fire officers are , erm purely because the job is such a wide range of , of things to deal with . |