Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] [pron] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I married I left the classes but now , all these years later , I joined them again . |
| 2 | When I finished I took the lift down to the typing pool . |
| 3 | When nobody spoke he broke the accusing silence . |
| 4 | When she returned she felt the need to explain . |
| 5 | With the legacy she left me when she died I bought the little flat on Fernhill . |
| 6 | When she demurred he said the other possibility was that Holly had tipped them off . |
| 7 | ‘ But when we came we had the fireplace taken out . |
| 8 | When we met I felt the most enormous sense of ‘ coming home ’ . |
| 9 | When we emerged we found the neighbours still standing around discussing what had happened , but Mum just pushed her way through them without a word . |
| 10 | Once or twice they followed a track that simply petered out , as though it had never been ; but always , when they returned they found the path she should have chosen was the path the man with the staff had been down before them . |
| 11 | When they arrived they found the police already there' ( Labour Research , 1984 ) . |
| 12 | Men who can cling to overhanging rocks thousands of feet above their companions , men who climb into perilous situations in the knowledge they are inches from death , men who are strong enough and man enough to meet any physical challenge , these are the men who call for their mum when they find they left the jungle Formula back in the car . |
| 13 | Coming to a particular spot , she said ‘ Dig theear ’ , and when they did they found the stump of the old one . |
| 14 | Our unwound watches lay in our rucksacks and when they stopped we followed the pattern of night and day instead . |
| 15 | We thought it was interference but when it continued we mapped the entire area . ’ |
| 16 | Disorganised French industry was slow to get into gear , and when it did it committed the traditional error — not emulated by the Germans — of having too many models . |
| 17 | When it did she made the coffee quickly and poured herself a cup . |
| 18 | He dreamt that he was in the coils of a giant worm , and when he woke he found the bedclothes wrapped tightly around him . |
| 19 | One of the witnesses called today was Peter Simpson , a taxi driver who was waiting in a layby in Akers Way when he said he heard the sound of screeching tyres and looked to see two cars driving at speed , nose to tail along the road . |
| 20 | When he said he wanted the ‘ spark of fire ’ and intended to have it , it was n't spiritual love he was talking about . |
| 21 | When he returned he joined the local carpenters ' union , and in 1861 he persuaded his Sheffield union to become part of the newly established Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners ( ASCJ ) . |
| 22 | When he says he found the body . ’ |
| 23 | When he died he left the land to the Drapers Company — a charitable institution for residents of East London . |
| 24 | When he moved he had the supple , easy grace of a big cat . |
| 25 | The tragedy of Oedipus Rex was given archetypal significance by Freud when he claimed it encapsulated the universal unconscious wish of young boys to dispense with their fathers in order to establish an exclusive claim upon their mothers . |
| 26 | When he did they saw the dead animal and , in fury at being deprived of their sport , they ran the hermit through with their boar staves . |
| 27 | All the time he slept she lay there longing acutely for him to go , and when he did she felt the most immense relief and vowed that now she had escaped his presence she would never never put herself in that position again . |
| 28 | But when he talked he looked the same as he had always done ; eager , intent , screwing up his boneless nose , gesturing with broad , stubby-fingered hands . |
| 29 | When he arrived he alerted the Clean-Up Squad . |