Example sentences of "[verb] when [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her feelings had been mixed when she had seen who it was climbing out of the taxi . |
| 2 | ‘ The decision is whether the availability for work issue is addressed when they start building the houses , ’ he added . |
| 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 | They disobeyed instructions by continuing to work when they had failed to do this . |
| 5 | In this way you will quickly be able to find the pressed material you want when you begin designing a picture . |
| 6 | Hardly how she wanted to appear when she 'd planned on wearing the dress to visit the hotels she wanted to do business with . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't notice you laughing when I have to go away for the night . |
| 8 | Astrid was laughing when she came running up , coat and scarf flying , shopping bags like gibsails billowing , her pretty mouth with little teeth making her seem to shine all over . |
| 9 | I believe that music-lovers are deluded when they claim to find artistic pleasure in any but a fraction of this music . |
| 10 | The final act of betrayal by William 's ministers was committed when they failed to call Parliament within twenty days of his death ( a violation of the Act of Security of 1696 ) , so that the Privy Council would have time to declare war on France without facing opposition from the Scottish Parliament . |
| 11 | The Ferghana party secretary was shot and slightly wounded when he tried to address a crowd ; and 5,000 men armed with automatic rifles and pistols were reported to have stormed party and government buildings in the ancient city of Kokand ( if Izvestiya 's report was to be believed , they carried a portrait of Lenin in front of them with a message written on the back of it which called for the slaughter of all Turks and Russians and ended ‘ Long live the Islamic republic and Ayatollah Khomeini ’ ) . |
| 12 | His hair was white , as my daughters reported when they went to view the body before it was given to the Odonata . |
| 13 | Under these circumstances , a " Device full " error would be reported when you tried to write data to the file for the first time . |
| 14 | This endorsement should be added when we have insisted that an alarm should be fitted to improve security at the home . |
| 15 | This endorsement should be added when we have insisted that a safe be installed at the home to improve security , usually when the policy covers a lot of valuable jewellery . |
| 16 | Arthur said he 'd never had their second message , and the fuss all died down , but he 's always come when we 've sent for him . ’ |
| 17 | The time 's come when I 've got to make a change . |
| 18 | And then well I met John , when I was in there , started going out with him , and er as I say when you get married in there you had to leave , so this , this was the next job they offered me . |
| 19 | She did n't object when we went to eat in a trattoria where the food and wine must have cost a week 's dole . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | THIS is the book which Peter Mayle planned to write when he went to live in France . |
| 22 | You should regard the summer months as out of bounds , since there are too many people about , and there is the risk of dry grass dying when you recover finds . |
| 23 | Liverpool inevitably became the centre for disputes about rate-capping for excessive expenditure , and then for surcharging when it tried to defy the government over expenditure cuts . |
| 24 | Only then will they win the middle ground , and only then will they give their policies a chance to persist when they have moved out of office . |
| 25 | Ruth knew he was looking at the glint of Caer Wydyr , which even at this range was difficult to focus on ; like something seen in the corner of the eye , it seemed to disappear when you turned to look . |
| 26 | ‘ That 's what you always expect when you go to lower division grounds and this one will be no different . |
| 27 | He felt a weight lifted when she had gone — he had so nearly fallen into her trap . |
| 28 | Accountability is not confined to policy matters , as William Whitelaw found when he had to report to an astonished House of Commons that an intruder had got into the Queen 's bedroom at Buckingham Palace . |
| 29 | There is another leitmotif in this funny , happy ballet , the precious red umbrella , Alain 's only love — or so it would seem — for it is the one thing he clings to and simply has to find when he has lost Lise . |
| 30 | Then she remembered the way he 'd looked when she 'd talked about the Venetian nobility . |