Example sentences of "[vb past] when [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he had only offered to use the truncheon as a sex aid but desisted when she shook her head . |
| 2 | Aye er and er I got to the now on the and steamers go so far up , past Le Havre at the mouth Le Havre we disembarked when we went out to France first time and we took guns and all sorts . |
| 3 | Some of the brothers were busy in the scriptorium but I was greeted courteously and no one objected when I began to leaf through the manuscript Southgate had left upon the table . |
| 4 | Joanne Menzies still looked drawn and strained when she ushered Detective-Sergeant McWhirter into Mr Steen 's office on the Monday afternoon . |
| 5 | She 'd overcome it by the time she was eighteen but it still surfaced when she got excited about something . ’ |
| 6 | Now it was Alain 's face that surfaced when she let down her guard . |
| 7 | The plight of Ian X , a 23-year-old Ayrshire man who has a mental age of six , surfaced when he appeared in court after getting into trouble for the first time with the police , and was sent to Barlinnie in the absence of any hospital or social work establishment willing to take him into care . |
| 8 | During the next year I completed my book , and all our hearts rose when I received a request from Mr William Ross 's office to see the manuscript . |
| 9 | The man she had spellbound stayed behind ; her enchantments had been pitted against an energetic opponent , who exulted when she left , cursing her as she trudged away pushing a small cart with her possessions . |
| 10 | Now you can look at that and sort of chant it out to yourself and learn that as a table or learn it visually or vaguely remember some of it and fill in the gaps by going back , What happened when we tried when we dripped ac acid on a metal ? |
| 11 | God knows I tried when I realised what was happening to us , although it was like a starving man walking away from food for me . |
| 12 | She moved when he came in , her shoulders sliding up the curved enamel , her breasts breaking the surface . |
| 13 | I am moving slowly now , as slowly as Summerchild moved when he came out of the darkness on that winter 's night . |
| 14 | She slithered away on her stomach across the slatted floor , just like her father moved when he played the serpent in the Garden of Eden . |
| 15 | Although he broke his collar bone and fractured his skull , he was saved from fatal injuries because his body was limp and simply bounced when it hit the tarmac . |
| 16 | Jean-Claude announced himself rested and refreshed when we got back to Paris . |
| 17 | My whole body trembled when he came near . |
| 18 | He was frightened and trembled when he saw iron bars because of his earlier experience of detentions . |
| 19 | He made toys that parodied her innocent amusements and those of her brothers and she trembled when he raised his leonine voice . |
| 20 | ‘ Come on , lazybones , it 's nearly dinner-time , ’ Otley scolded when he brought me some tea up . |
| 21 | Never an assiduous Bible reader , though while mother was alive she used to read a few verses for her sake , she now began to turn to it more and more in search of enlightenment but her head swam when she tried to read . |
| 22 | Michael Heseltine , Environment secretary and former Prime Ministerial candidatem , was certain which he prefered when he met his Spitting Image Alter Ego . |
| 23 | These Awards are intended to encourage schools and local agencies to work together in involving young people in sport , and keeping them involved when they leave school . |
| 24 | Fred often winced when he witnessed his wife 's impudence and guile , but he realised she was right . |
| 25 | Hank chuckled , and then winced when he moved his head suddenly . |
| 26 | Water , the original substance which God created when he made the world , represents change , and immersing oneself in a natural body of water is the only way of changing one 's spiritual identity . |
| 27 | Differently again , the overture to A Month in the Country conveys romantic nostalgia with deeper hints of passion which Lanchbery created when he arranged little-known music by Chopin . |
| 28 | ‘ There are also areas where we can learn from them , as we found when we visited Khmelnitski last year . ’ |
| 29 | The Minister does not know the figures , but I shall tell him what farmers in Orkney found when they made simple inquiries . |
| 30 | ‘ No doubt there was some cross or ornament they found when they robbed that poor creature , and Adolph had made a fantasy out of it . |