Example sentences of "[verb] when [noun] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Florrie Thompsett , ( as featured in February Dogs Today ) was devastated when thieves broke into her home in Kent . |
| 2 | A report on Radio France Internationale said that , in addition , 17 people were wounded when police fired on crowds . |
| 3 | Shortly afterwards at another meeting , Mr. Fairbank said , in response to a letter from the Ministry of Health suggesting that the vaccination officer should be paid a fixed salary , that ‘ the time had come when Whitehall had to be told that the local authorities were going to stop being ciphers , and would exercise their own judgement . |
| 4 | It was discarded when shelving had to be cleared away from a wall on which a mural had been discovered after being painted over in the Stalinist era when the artist who created it had fallen out of favour . |
| 5 | Part of a Swindon street had to be evacuated when workmen cut through a gas pipe and electric cable sparking a fire . |
| 6 | Part of a street had to be evacuated when workmen cut through a gas pipe and electric cable sparking a fire . |
| 7 | One of the few occasions for sharp words between them , in public at any rate , occurred when Elena disagreed about internal decorations with him . |
| 8 | It finally erupted when Mozart asked for permission to stay on for a few days in Vienna to collect some outstanding fees . |
| 9 | Heavy rain had prevented an ; y play on the first day at Old Trafford , and though high scores were not expected when play got under way on the second day , few people could reasonably have expected that the contest would be over and done with in one day . |
| 10 | Maggie exclaimed when spray lashed against her face . |
| 11 | . They stopped when Annette went through the right ? |
| 12 | But the deal collapsed when City looked at their bank account . |
| 13 | Opposed by Soviet intellectuals such as writer Valentin Rasputin , if was finally dropped when Gorbachev came to power . |
| 14 | Rangers equalised when Ferdinand burst through the Southampton defence to score a fine individual goal in the 62nd minute . |
| 15 | Jenna knew she would feel trapped — she had known for quite a few days — but she was not about to tell Alain Lemarchand that , and she was just gathering her thoughts to answer when Marguerite called from the hall . |
| 16 | A MAN died and a girl was badly injured when fire ripped through a house yesterday . |
| 17 | In the western town of Nantes 11 people were injured when protests escalated into violence . |
| 18 | However , Saturday 's setback at Celtic Park marked the first time in a year Goram had been in a losing Rangers team ( he was injured when Dundee won at Dens Park in August ) , and the assured nature of his performances at domestic , European and international level have helped gather an army of voters who could make the goalkeeper the first since Hamish McAlpine ( in 1985 ) to win the Scottish Football Writers ' Association Player of the Year award . |
| 19 | The next meeting came when Chapman called at the player 's sports shop in Sunderland to ask him if he would agree to move to Arsenal . |
| 20 | The greatest accolade came when Reggie came to the show , bringing Joyce 's closest friend Virginia Graham . |
| 21 | The man for the crisis proved to be Downton , who stayed with Gower till the end , which came when Botham declared on 302 for 6 ; they were helped by Marshall not being able to bowl , but it was still a fine piece of concentration of which Ken Barrington would have been proud . |
| 22 | Ironically the biggest cheer came when news broke of the downfall of Mr Patten , Conservative chairman , to the Liberal Democrats . |
| 23 | The crunch came when Malcolm returned from America . |
| 24 | For the right , the real crisis came when appeasement proved to be a bankrupt policy as Britain drifted towards war in September 1939 . |
| 25 | They had met when John danced in the creation of Mardi Gras , which Stevenson both wrote and designed . |
| 26 | Nothing very significant so far , ’ Melissa commented when Lou paused for further thought . |
| 27 | Out there the whole cosmos rolled and sang , out there the stars had danced and sung when Fenna called to them . |
| 28 | The match was agreed when Mowbray moved to Scotland for £1m last November . |
| 29 | Did n't I mean the same , same sort of thing happened when Wentworth put on the twenty fifth of May , that a week before Sheila said er oh you 're not having this . |
| 30 | What happened when Rudolph came to town . |