Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] when [pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was lying there worrying about that when she started to feel these twinges . ’ |
| 2 | The whole thing , reminds me a little bit of each when I had to get my thousand pounds . |
| 3 | Charles always smiled like that when he wanted to appease her . |
| 4 | First thing next morning , Malcolm had Walsh lbw , giving him 6 for 77 and match figures of 10 for 137 and leaving England all day to make 151. just before lunch they were 73 for 1 when it began to rain — hard . |
| 5 | Those of us who want to champion Pound do him no service at all when we try to excuse the inexcusable . |
| 6 | I have to say that I was a little disappointed at first when mine failed to absorb all the rain from a really wet windscreen , but I found that when held edge-on , this handy , blue tool proved most effective at scraping the snow and ice from my car . |
| 7 | Flushed and wild-eyed like all the others , they resisted at first when he tried to drag them away . |