Example sentences of "[vb pp] when [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Switchboard is still almost as white dominated as it was male dominated when I joined . |
| 2 | ‘ I was profoundly unnerved when I read the screenplay ; quite shaking with fear and disturbance . |
| 3 | She always felt unnerved when she researched at the august Victoria and Albert Museum and became only too conscious of her lack of formal training . |
| 4 | Her feelings had been mixed when she had seen who it was climbing out of the taxi . |
| 5 | However , when he is transferred to a strange yard with different handlers , even if it is a good establishment , his natural nervous temperament will reappear , explaining why so many new owners think their horse may have been drugged when they bought it . |
| 6 | ‘ The decision is whether the availability for work issue is addressed when they start building the houses , ’ he added . |
| 7 | 17 ( 13 ) CITY OF JOY : Drop-out doctor Patrick Swayze finds his conscience is pricked when he visits the slums of Calcutta . |
| 8 | 20 ( 17 ) CITY OF JOY : Drop-out doctor Patrick Swayze finds his conscience pricked when he visits the slums of Calcutta . |
| 9 | Melanie and Victoria each had a fat , foil-wrapped tangerine from an aromatic , tissue-padded cardboard box , which was being unpacked when they went in together for potatoes and cooking apples ; and the greengrocer lady , nodding her gold earrings , promised Victoria a solid triangle of muscatel raisins if she was a good girl and if the muscatel raisins did not sell . |
| 10 | A few sports shirts and a sweater will do ; and they 'll probably not even have been unpacked when you get home . |
| 11 | and , a relationship built up , especially between myself and the surrogate and life was devastated when we parted and my daughter will always know how much her genetic mother loves her and how much I love her obviously . |
| 12 | Wickham had been proud of her , and was devastated when she said they should separate . |
| 13 | I loved Jeanne and I was devastated when she died . |
| 14 | I was rather devastated when she told me she was moving to Crieff , as she made major contributions to the work of the Library here ; she had a long-term future , and her personality made many friends for the Library among our users . |
| 15 | The woman had become suicidally depressed while pregnant with her previous two children and was devastated when she found herself accidentally pregnant again . |
| 16 | ‘ She said he was devastated when you went back to England after Seville — ’ |
| 17 | She stared at the rim of her cup and said tonelessly , ‘ As you 'll have gathered , I was — devastated when I heard Elise had died . |
| 18 | I was devastated when he said he fancied me but we 've started a relationship . |
| 19 | He was devastated when he discovered his premises had been attacked for the second time . |
| 20 | His solicitor , Mike Allan , told Sheriff Alexander Jessop that Say had been completely devastated when he arrived home to find a note from his wife , telling him their marriage was over . |
| 21 | Moncur conceded that his team could be better organised when they do not have the ball , but he should be congratulated for encouraging their skills . |
| 22 | Will you feel trapped when you marry this lawyer of yours ? ’ |
| 23 | Easily recognised by his boar 's head tie , his enthusiasm and appetite was first whetted when he met the ‘ iron-age ’ pig several years ago . |
| 24 | I believe that music-lovers are deluded when they claim to find artistic pleasure in any but a fraction of this music . |
| 25 | For if a garage habitually does half the service its costs are very much lower than if it has done the full service ; and since it can charge the full price , because of the ignorance of the consumer , its pro fits are maximised when it does as little of the service as it can get away with . |
| 26 | We were applauded when we reported our record , and one of the newly recruited flying students opened a few bottles of root beer by way of celebration . |
| 27 | On Aug. 7 , Prime Minister Hanna Suchocka , addressing a public meeting in her native Poznan a month after taking office [ see p. 39017 ] , was applauded when she criticized striking workers , saying that they did not belong to the groups which earned least . |
| 28 | On Aug. 7 , Prime Minister Hanna Suchocka , addressing a public meeting in her native Poznan a month after taking office [ see p. 39017 ] , was applauded when she criticized striking workers , saying that they did not belong to the groups which earned least . |
| 29 | Having taken Sir Lewis to task over the delay in holding the agm and Mr Michel 's joining fee , Mr Middlemass was applauded when he took issue with the extraordinary motion to increase the employees ' discount on share options to 20 per cent . |
| 30 | Earlier , Alex Aitken , of the Conservative Collegiate Forum , was loudly applauded when he said it was ‘ intolerable ’ that taxpayers should have to fund the left-wing propaganda of the NUS . |