Example sentences of "[vb past] when [pron] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No doubt there was some cross or ornament they found when they robbed that poor creature , and Adolph had made a fantasy out of it . |
| 2 | We had heard that the paths ahead were precarious and exposed , but my heart sank when I noticed that even the horses were being blindfolded . |
| 3 | They jangled when she moved and brushed her creamy shoulders each time she turned her head . |
| 4 | The bomb-shell exploded when it added that those sixty-six coupons must last for a whole year . |
| 5 | Now you can look at that and sort of chant it out to yourself and learn that as a table or learn it visually or vaguely remember some of it and fill in the gaps by going back , What happened when we tried when we dripped ac acid on a metal ? |
| 6 | This often happened when he thought that one or all of us were laughing at him , especially if he interpreted our teasing as mocking his intelligence . |
| 7 | You 'll guess what happened when I say that I am now commanding the Company — and in the line I had a seraphic boy-lance-corporal as my sergeant-major . |
| 8 | She speaks volumes about the divisions which exited when she acknowledges that ‘ Terry was more comfortable with his own kind ’ . |
| 9 | It brought a tragic end to a love story that began when they met as they walked their dogs after each had lost a marriage partner to cancer . |
| 10 | The private detective following them cursed when they stopped and kissed in the middle of the street . |
| 11 | Winston put these machines in front of everybody and there was a button that you pressed when you spoke and you released when you listened … . |
| 12 | The enemy becomes particularly demoralized when they realize that it is a unit of women behind the line of fire making them retreat . |
| 13 | Prudent and orderly , uncompromising in his views on life and art , and instinctively reserved in a postwar world which contradicted them extensively , Frampton was a man of humour , courtesy , and charm , who unbent when he sensed that his deep feeling for beauty , order , and sound technique was shared . |
| 14 | Caterina now faced the weeping Virgin determinedly and moved her lips as if praying ; she quailed when she realised that she would have to act the go-between again and seek him out alone once more . |
| 15 | She blushed when she realised that Sarah was trying to hide her surprise but her friend only said , ‘ I wonder will the caelidhe be on tonight ? |
| 16 | The scene was filmed , but the problems started when they realized that it would not be possible for them to be lowered to the ground , as planned . |
| 17 | His ‘ crimes ’ , as they saw it , started when he insisted that if there had to be meetings they must be businesslike , properly chaired and follow the agenda . |
| 18 | ‘ Now I know how my grandparents felt when they heard that Derek was to hang from journalists at their door . ’ |
| 19 | In her study My Mother My Self ( Fontana , £5.99 ) , psychologist Nancy Friday puts her finger on how I felt when she says that , at such a time , ‘ The new mother finds the need for her own mother increasing . |
| 20 | What had St John meant when he said that the Word was ‘ with God ’ ? |
| 21 | These ‘ social capital ’ arguments may have been what Titmuss meant when he argued that major wars increase governmental concern for women and children , and produce social policies to protect them . |
| 22 | We can understand what Oakeshott meant when he stated that ‘ Hobbes is not an absolutist precisely because he is an authoritarian ’ . |
| 23 | She almost laughed when she reflected that here was she fretting about whether Time would give him back to her or not . |
| 24 | Moving towards the table to lay down her load , she almost laughed when she saw that they were playing cat 's cradle . |
| 25 | He laughed when he heard that Billy Wilder had said , ‘ I hear Otto 's on holiday . |
| 26 | I thought when he died that nothing could ever hurt me so much — now I 'm not so sure . |
| 27 | These figures were confirmed even more when we saw when we saw that we spent twenty five pound more a head of population on our schools than the average Metropolitan District . |
| 28 | I asked the captain what they did when they did when they had ladies parties ? |
| 29 | ‘ This is an exchange , not a rummage sale , ’ she said when she saw that Gloria had brought along no clothes to swap . |
| 30 | when she said when she said that what was new in the theory was false , and what was true was old . |