Example sentences of "[noun] when it went " in BNC.
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| 1 | Julian Russell was working on the Greek cruiser Oceanos when it went down in the Indian Ocean . |
| 2 | I 'd just finished filling the hip flask when it went dark in the bar as a truck pulled up at the traffic lights outside . |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp got a bloody nose when it went head-to-head with Novell Inc and challenged NetWare with LAN Manager , and what it failed to achieve with a full frontal attack , it is now trying to secure by stealth . |
| 4 | ‘ We think one soldier had been playing with the weapon when it went off . |
| 5 | The red bitch became short-tempered , snapping at the puppy when it went to suckle her dangling teats , now empty of milk : pushing it aside when it clambered over her sleeping body or pummelled her head in a rowdy mock fight . |
| 6 | Stephen , whose family is from Wallasey , had been navigating the plane when it went down near Blair Athol during a training session on May 27 . |
| 7 | First the newlyweds had to flee their hired Rolls-Royce when it went up in flames . |
| 8 | New York-based Computer Outsourcing Services Inc , which said it wanted to make acquisitions when it went public the other day , has signed a definitive agreement to acquire a private New York-based provider of billing and payroll services to companies in the home health care industry on a four-year earnout . |
| 9 | ‘ She once mended my watch when it went wrong — ’ Malcolm was old-fashioned and liked watches made about ninety years ago in Switzerland by little hunch-backed men . |
| 10 | The two children , Christopher and Mathew Keys were in the back of their parents ' Metro saloon when it went out of control on the A424 near Burford . |
| 11 | Flight Lt McNally was navigating the Hercules when it went down and the RAF are still conducting an inquiry into the incident which happened 10 miles north east of Blair Atholl . |
| 12 | The kind of marks you 'd make if you wrapped a pillow round a gun so it did n't make any noise when it went off . |
| 13 | The sun was a copper-coloured ball balanced briefly on the tops of trees , there was no relief from the heat when it went down but a little from the persistent ravages of the insects whose uproar , briefly louder and more piercing , diminished as the light faded . |
| 14 | Last year Ramar Textiles at Crooks axed more than 500 jobs when it went into administrative receivership and similar jobs losses were announced in Darlington and Aycliffe . |
| 15 | We do not accept the submission by Mr. Sedley , who appeared for the Bar Council , that there was any conscious distinction made between the occasions when this jurisdiction of the judges , however it was exercised , went to matters related to the administration of justice , such as the equipping of the courts with advocates who were fit to appear before them there , and the occasions when it went simply to matters relating to the administration of the Inns and their property . |
| 16 | The car had been travelling along the A534 from Wrexham to Holt when it went out of control . |