Example sentences of "[verb] when [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was profoundly unnerved when I read the screenplay ; quite shaking with fear and disturbance . |
| 2 | 17 ( 13 ) CITY OF JOY : Drop-out doctor Patrick Swayze finds his conscience is pricked when he visits the slums of Calcutta . |
| 3 | 20 ( 17 ) CITY OF JOY : Drop-out doctor Patrick Swayze finds his conscience pricked when he visits the slums of Calcutta . |
| 4 | He was just cursing the child lock which his sweating , trembling hands were unable to work when he noticed the girl jockey walking towards his car . |
| 5 | When we 've actually given you the full thing in , the minutes , the mights , and where and whatever , you can look at it and say hey , there 's too much of that but what we 're addressing is the moral aspect of a child 's upbringing that perhaps we should be and say well right fine er , it might , I 'm just taking on environmental , right , now the year children to do environment there , but it 's really happening down there , I feel that these children in the past have n't he so can we take that out this year and bring in something totally new , totally different that you feel should go in erm so that it is more rationalised it 's not just my people doing what they want when you see the , the whole thing you can make suggestions and we come back and go back through it again we actually say to the form teachers this is what this will definitely happen for this term but when we 've looked at the whole five year sa side we might change some things . |
| 6 | They used to giggle and splutter when they saw the old man , thinking of him sitting on a toadstool in the moonlight . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The firm 's managing director , Jim Heslop , was applauded when he described the scheme as ‘ EC and MAFF bureaucratic lunacy . ’ |
| 9 | Their worst excesses were committed when they reached the Delta districts where amid the Burmese there were villages of the Karen minority . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | So far we have distinguished two levels of stylistic variation : that of sense reference , and that of syntax sense , but a further level will be added when we consider the multilevel coding of language in more detail in Chapter 4 . |
| 13 | Indeed , he was just about to ask to be substituted when he collected the ball in the 38th minute on the edge of the area with his back to goal . |
| 14 | Ashton 's design for Pepe , the dog , in The Wedding Bouquet was bettered when he created the Town and Bad Mice , Pigling Bland and the other animals in the film The Tales of Beatrix Potter . |
| 15 | Madra lay next to Riven at the back , and he did not object when she piled the blankets over them both and pushed close to him . |
| 16 | How does the postulated discontinuity appear when we consider the enormous Schrödinger equation embracing the totality of all that is involved in the measurement process ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | As I found when I took the time to listen to parents and hear what they said , the views advanced did not always fit the latest fashion or an approved passage in a book on sociology . |
| 19 | And as far as in the appraisals I mean I found when I did the three s part staff and , and I was , it was that pilot and , and I know |
| 20 | You can derive an enormous amount of satisfaction from restoring old frames and returning them to their former glory , and it is astonishing the number of attractive frames that are discarded when someone changes the colour scheme of their home or sorts through their attic and throws out something that is battered but still beautiful . |
| 21 | ‘ Och well , we 'll see whether those lines fit when we reach the top of the pass over the Andes . ’ |
| 22 | She was therefore a little disconcerted to find when they left the station that instead of waiting for a taxi Lady Selvedge began to stride away in the direction of Victoria Street , saying ‘ I know just the place for us to get a snack . |
| 23 | At first he thought he 'd been burgled , but he was astonished to find when he called the police that they 'd done it . |
| 24 | The simplicity of our initial beliefs about how signs might be used to alleviate the plight of deaf pupils was quickly overwhelmed when we realised the extensiveness of sign language itself . |
| 25 | Only Raimundo 's lurchers responded when she combed the burrs out of their coats and fed them bits of meat . |
| 26 | The use of the contract army , however , placed the king in the position of debtor to the military captains , most of whom were members of the titled nobility , and the sums owed by the crown to individual nobles might often be very substantial : in 1386 , for instance , the Earl of Northumberland reached agreement with the Exchequer whereby in return for £700 he discharged the king of all debts owing to the earl ‘ from any time past until the making of this indenture ’ , and the earl was discharged of the debts he incurred when he held the office of Admiral . |
| 27 | The first problem occurred when they left the road and moved off into the open desert . |
| 28 | The Imperial troops posted to defend the river gates from Kislev fled when they saw the green horde stretched out across the horizon and advancing at full speed towards them . |
| 29 | Bryce exclaimed when he found the box of batteries he 'd come in search of . |
| 30 | Roger exclaimed when he opened the door . |