Example sentences of "when [noun prp] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jim was sitting in the middle of the back seat and on the edge but he did not utter , even when Patrick squeezed between two juggernauts with inches to spare . |
| 2 | Faced with a deficit of 522 , Boycott and Gatting fell in successive balls with the score on 2 ; , Gooch and Gower put on 120 , but when Gower went for 54 Gooch found little company . |
| 3 | He went along to Diana 's breathing classes to prepare for the birth and was there by her side in the private Lindo Wing at St Mary 's Hospital in Paddington when William emerged after sixteen hours of labour . |
| 4 | When Toby came in five minutes later , Pumfrey said : |
| 5 | And just before half time , the erm visitors got their goal erm when Steven scored from another corner , and the score at half time was two one . |
| 6 | One of the few occasions for sharp words between them , in public at any rate , occurred when Elena disagreed about internal decorations with him . |
| 7 | At the next they were all square when Lyle missed from three feet . |
| 8 | Thus what I called Crime and Punishment 's apocalyptic naturalism is its most vital link with The Possessed ; I mean , when Dostoevsky read about that gang murder in the Moscow Record his mind 's eye was caught not by a bizarre and therefore very newsworthy incident but by the seed of a foul commonplace : the seed in eternity , in the deepest realism , though also in the mere mundane future , for Dostoevsky did imagine a time when only the most spectacular acts of terrorism would get headline treatment . |
| 9 | But , when Andre returned from oenological college in Beaune , brand new influences soon became apparent . |
| 10 | When Connor threw on some clothes and left the Watermen at a run , in search of a doctor , he left his mother to hold Ruth 's hand and try to comfort her . |
| 11 | We said nothing after that , except to nod goodbye when Tom got off two stops ahead of me . |
| 12 | Bristol piled on fierce pressure and Middlesbrough paid for their lack of enterprise when Bristol equalised after 67 minutes . |
| 13 | There was much hilarity when Geoffrey steamed in ten minutes late pleading a mix-up in his diary . |
| 14 | The entrance foyer was packed when Georg sidled in that evening , hoping that no-one would see him and recognize him . |
| 15 | When Atkinson moved from Real Sociedad to join Ron Atkinson in the summer of last year in a £1.6 million move , the world was at his feet . |
| 16 | When Atkinson moved from Real Sociedad to join Ron Atkinson in the summer of last year in a £1.6 million move , the world was at his feet . |
| 17 | It was a great shock to the Girls when Jennie died on 21 February , 1936 . |
| 18 | Needing to score quickly , West Indies made 176 at nearly five an over , despite some fine bowling from Snow , when Lloyd declared with five wickets down , setting England the task of surviving for five and a quarter hours or scoring 339 to win . |
| 19 | Her husband , Bill , was always embarrassed on my behalf , when Irina launched into this topic . |
| 20 | Little was heard of the committee until six months later when Billy asked for another group meeting . |
| 21 | Veteran trainer Bill Wightman still keeps an ace or two up his sleeve and struck in some style when Catherineofaragon won by ten lengths under John Williams . |
| 22 | We must surely conclude that when Reagan ran for national office in 1980 he was hardly the amateur in politics that his critics suggested . |
| 23 | Nothing very significant so far , ’ Melissa commented when Lou paused for further thought . |
| 24 | When Boniface wrote to other bishops , he had a way of invariably reminding them that Christian authority meant service . |
| 25 | When Freddie returned from compassionate leave in Scotland after his wife 's miscarriage and found the letter waiting which requested him to report to London immediately , he did so with thankfulness , even though he was not yet aware of the full repercussions of his latest extra-marital affair . |
| 26 | " Aye well , that 's how I felt when Blossom came down that hill . " |
| 27 | Russia declared war on Japan on 8 August but , as the Japanese military reported , the Soviet forces did not appear fully prepared for conflict extending throughout Manchuria and Korea : while much of Manchuria was captured , significant parts of southern Manchuria had not been taken when Japan surrendered on 15 August . |
| 28 | When Bute returned to Scottish control in 1266 , the castle was strengthened by the addition of four round projecting towers and , on the north side , a gatehouse facing the sea . |
| 29 | Lord Cholmondeley 's correspondent referred to the Smiths as ‘ very good Workmen ’ , and when Francis died in 1738 Sir Edmund Isham of Lamport , Northamptonshire , lamented the loss of ‘ our honest Builder Mr. Smith of Warwick ’ . |
| 30 | When Ferdinand died in 1989 Mrs Marcos seemed to be the only link to the billions of dollars that the Philippines claims the Marcos family stole during his presidency . |