Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] when [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stopped rehearsing when they reached the end of Act One . |
| 2 | African-Americans in South Central mostly hate Korean store owners and there 's no getting around the fact , as Jesse Jackson tried to do when he said the assaults on Koreans were not racist . |
| 3 | I thought of the stack of dirty crocks to tackle after tea , of pictures and furniture that were once polished every week , and now got done when I had the time . |
| 4 | Suddenly she dropped his hand and slid her arms about his waist , knowing she 'd won when she felt the thunder of his heart against her cheek as she burrowed her face against his chest . |
| 5 | The leaders of the teams on the controls could see her , so she would n't have to mess around with semaphore and bits of thread like they 'd done when they left the Store . |
| 6 | This was the inheritance which Nicholas II ( 1894–1917 ) pledged to uphold when he ascended the throne . |
| 7 | She was therefore a little disconcerted to find when they left the station that instead of waiting for a taxi Lady Selvedge began to stride away in the direction of Victoria Street , saying ‘ I know just the place for us to get a snack . |
| 8 | My eyes were immediately attracted to the table and my mouth started watering when I saw the home-made cakes and jam tarts laid out on a white lace tablecloth . |
| 9 | There were more trucks around it , and also several humans that started to run when they saw the shadow of the Ship . |
| 10 | Briefly put , the law is now back to what Parliament had intended when it enacted the Act of 1906 — but stronger and clearer than it was then . ’ |
| 11 | If they had realised when they answered the advertisement in the Evening Citizen that it was bare metal , they would have gone elsewhere . |
| 12 | In September 1991 , Bernhard flew his small aircraft along , and videoed , the exact route and at the same altitude that W1048 had flown when she attacked the Tirpitz in 1942 . |
| 13 | Her initial insane reaction to the loss had eased when she confronted the reality of the other woman and the new tears played an essential part in her healing . |
| 14 | Phoebe , on the other hand , suddenly could not remember what false name she had given when she made the appointment . |
| 15 | Darkness had fallen when we reached the beaches , having travelled over ground in places very familiar . |
| 16 | Sara had smiled when she read the letter . |
| 17 | For example , in many road accident situations , the witness will only have realised that an accident had occurred when they heard the crash , and looked round and saw the aftermath , although they will try and tell you that they actually saw the vehicles colliding . |
| 18 | It gained substance when Representative Susan Molinari , Republican for New York , related what she and her staff had experienced when they occupied the office before Orton . |
| 19 | The romantic fantasy world that she had entered when she left the train with Ludo was dissolving in the light of reality . |
| 20 | She felt suddenly dirtied by death , ashamed of the knowledge she had gained when she witnessed the cessation of breathing that marked the end of her parents ' lives , sad and sullied by the separations she had lived through . |
| 21 | Her waterdetector — now lost — had twanged when they crossed the Spanish Fork city limits . |
| 22 | She made one last feeble attempt to avoid the escalation of physical craving between them , knowing she had lost when she heard the unusual huskiness of her own voice , and saw Rune 's eyes darken in immediate response . |
| 23 | Morgan 's interest in anthropology had begun when he noticed the systematic pattern created by the totality of the terms used to refer to relatives and kinsmen . |
| 24 | Her mother , Pamela Bootyman , said her daughter 's behaviour had changed when she reached the age of 12 or 13 . |