Example sentences of "when [noun] [vb past] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when Cardiff looked at the upside-down dead eyes of that head as they reflected in the torchlight , when he saw the teeth set in a clenched and hideous grin … he recognised the face immediately . |
| 2 | He smiled without humour when Frankie sucked at the soap-filled cloth in order to sluice the taste of rancid beck-water from his mouth . |
| 3 | Christina arranged dinner with Celia , then picked some mimosa and bright-lavender periwinkle flowers for the dining-table , which she was arranging when Stephen appeared at the french windows of the dining-room , looming out of the lengthening shadows as dusk turned quickly into night . |
| 4 | When officers arrived at the High Row , a large group of anti-fascist campaigners had arrived and were chanting slogans at the BNP . |
| 5 | When Gazzer knocked at the back door , she was thinking , vaguely , that she ought to get dressed but she felt too apathetic to shift herself . |
| 6 | When Thornton started at the Daily Mirror he found the usual chronic Fleet Street over-staffing , and began to swing the axe to enable the paper to stand on its own two feet and ward off the inevitable predators , such as Rupert Murdoch and Robert Maxwell . |