Example sentences of "[noun sg] when [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A disabled man who is unable to speak typed out a message on his computer to call the fire brigade when he woke to find a candle had caused a small fire in his bedroom . |
| 2 | By notice of appeal dated 2 January 1992 , the child appealed against the order on the grounds , inter alia , that the justices erred when they found that he was likely to suffer significant harm as a result of his absconding as no evidence had been produced that he had suffered such harm when he had absconded . |
| 3 | Mummy when I swam swimmed |
| 4 | And how dared he try to bolster up his male ego at her expense when he had made it so plain he did n't care a damn for her as a person ? |
| 5 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he expects to make a decision relating to West Yorkshire police authority 's application for a £3.6 million grant from the urban crime fund . |
| 6 | In addition to the squalor , residents suffered from prejudice when they had to give a Springtown address . |
| 7 | At home , women may have all the rights they could want on paper , but they often vanish in a cloud of prejudice when you try to put them into practice ! |
| 8 | I reach for the dictionary when I want to know how I should use it . |
| 9 | Such reading must have recalled Eliot 's Harvard reading in anthropology and psychology of religion when he had noted , amongst other things Jevons 's stress that ‘ the worship of stones is a degradation of a higher form of worship ’ . |
| 10 | for wool when we 've got so many |
| 11 | She watched him get the pony ready , learning all the time so that she would be able to harness it herself in future when she wanted to drive out in Nahum 's absence . |
| 12 | ‘ We 'll wander over to the car when we 've finished , ’ he told the driver . |
| 13 | In their few days together Thomas had made no reference to that night in the car when he had asked her to touch him , there . |
| 14 | He had given it up for his very inferior car when he started courting Big Brenda out of the Biology lab — Biological Brenda , as Preston called her , who gave them lessons on sex , and no doubt Sam as well . |
| 15 | Helmeted riot police fired tear gas and chased students across the campus of the University of Zimbabwe after they boycotted classes and wrecked Mr Kamba 's car when he refused to meet them . |
| 16 | Yeah but trouble is you pray for ra , pray for snow when you 've got a four wheel drive car ! |
| 17 | The scales were dry and silver , and fell like little clouds of snow when she had to scratch the skin because the cream from her doctor would not stop the itching . |
| 18 | I 've come straight from the calving and I did n't even get a cup of tea when I 'd finished . |
| 19 | I 'll give you a ring when I 've finished then . |
| 20 | I 'll give you a ring when I 've sorted it out . ’ |
| 21 | Simes how , do n't leave that lying around so put it on the side when you 've finished . |
| 22 | The patient is lifted if he has not recovered his ability to balance , that is , if he tends to topple and fall backwards and towards his hemiplegic side when he tries to sit or stand up without any support . |
| 23 | An objector , who had not given the notice required by the rule , was not allowed to oppose confirmation when he sought to appear before the confirming authority , and the licence was confirmed . |
| 24 | The 45-year-old , who worked at Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council from 1977 to 1985 and at Durham County Council from 1985 to 1988 , sparked a nationwide search when he failed to return to his High Farm home on August 24 . |
| 25 | I promised to tell him all about my murder when I 'd written it . |
| 26 | KATRIN DORRE , from Leipzig , who gave up a career as a medical student to become a full-time athlete , saved the blushes of the organisers of the 12th ADT London marathon when she managed to lead the field of over 25,000 across the line on Westminster Bridge yesterday . |
| 27 | It was perhaps a foregone conclusion that he would go into the family firm founded by his great-grandfather , John Cadbury , in 1824 , although he had two tempting offers from outside industry when he had completed his degree . |
| 28 | I do not mean to be offensive to the hon. Member for Sherwood when I say that he has entertained us with his prepared briefs in many of our coal debates , but that it is a bit rich of him continually to criticise the contraction of the coal industry when he has supported many of his Government 's policies on the industry . |
| 29 | She talked to Susan about it being flushed away and that Susan could flush the lavatory when she had finished . |
| 30 | Marius had confessed that he had crippled a Turkish immigrant in Stockholm and Alex was told the registration number of the Land Rover he had left behind at the German frontier when he had deserted . |