Example sentences of "[vb past] when [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plight of Ian X , a 23-year-old Ayrshire man who has a mental age of six , surfaced when he appeared in court after getting into trouble for the first time with the police , and was sent to Barlinnie in the absence of any hospital or social work establishment willing to take him into care . |
| 2 | Raymond Blanc has an appetite for life , as Janette Marshall found when they talked about food , home and marriage |
| 3 | What I found when I looked at this problem over the course of ten years was that this complexity , like responsibility time span , also occurs in leaps or jumps . |
| 4 | But I found when I looked at my books a week ago , or a fortnight ago , I thought , oh I know this , I know this , but it 's not until you get into it that you think shit ! |
| 5 | ‘ There 's a fantastic-looking man called Rob English whom I found when I trod on his toe in a shop in Brighton , ’ says Sarah . |
| 6 | However , Honderich himself throws up difficulties with regard to his third point , in that Conservatism must have been at least partly responsible for the ‘ decent ’ society he found when he arrived in Britain thirty years ago . |
| 7 | er sale occurred when they went through the electrical register and asked people who lived in flats whether they wanted a green cone , they did n't even have a garden , let alone a window box but nevertheless erm I the green cone extends ought to be reported on , ought to be encouraged and such like because it is the individual person who is going to recycle using their own garden in their own small way as opposed to transporting the stuff maybe to a waste tip and such like where it has to be dealt with at a an expensive way and if a the best part of the expense of dealing with waste of course is actually to transport and transport throughout the roads and if you do it in your own gardens so much the better and I , I , I should like to er and taking part in the green cone experiment er further experiments like that whereby the individual person is encouraged to do it . |
| 8 | In the early 1970s Brooke-Rose described the different ‘ houses of theory ’ she encountered when she moved to Paris in 1968 : |
| 9 | She walked along by the shops , and stopped when she came to a door with ‘ Madame Eloise — Hair ’ on it . |
| 10 | I stopped when she hissed at me to shut up and let her get on with it . |
| 11 | He only stopped when he felt like it . |
| 12 | All the same , I must tell you that my heart sank when I thought of you getting ready to serve a life sentence of accounting in that ghastly tower block at London Bridge station . |
| 13 | Gall equalised when he towered above the Derby defence to head in Munday 's free-kick , but Meade should have brought them level immediately after Gabbiadini 's first goal but slid the ball wide six yards out . |
| 14 | I noticed when i went by on Sunday , that all those houses have been built , right the way down to the , as you go on er p on erm on what 's the name of the place where they first er the first lot of . |
| 15 | The crux of the matter today is that those children were not listened to or believed when they complained to the very people in whose care we had put them for protection . |
| 16 | Our walks have been outstandingly enjoyable , and yesterday we walked on the estate which you and Bob pained when we went to the Crinan Canal . |
| 17 | Doing their best for the glory of Canada , the whole field of eleven swept round the bend and went down the far side as if welded together , and it still seemed when they turned for home that that was how they might finish , in a knot . |
| 18 | Bob watched her all the way down the stairs , agonized on her behalf ; still more agonized when it occurred to him , just as she went out of sight , that he should have gone down with her and carried the case . |
| 19 | The crunch came when they moved in the police . |
| 20 | Jay says his greatest pleasure came when he played against two Grandmasters from Russia and one each from England and Romania , drawing twice and losing twice . |
| 21 | Having previously written some plays and two novels — The Jesuit ( 1832 ) and The Prelate ( 1840 ) — his break came when he returned from a continental tour in 1849 to write for the London Journal . |
| 22 | ‘ The problems came when I protested at the removing without consultation of Christmas bonus pay and the halving of overtime paid while accompanying residents on holidays . ’ |
| 23 | Erm I came when I came in England I came here . |
| 24 | Do you kn erm on the subject of I know last last time I came when I spoke to you that you were saying about you were saying about religion and it was and the fact that you erm go to church . |
| 25 | Perhaps her greatest accomplishment came when she assumed from 1895 to 1899 the editorship and proprietorship of the Woman 's Signal , one of the most influential and outspoken feminist periodicals . |
| 26 | That 's the way I turned when I went in the jail . |
| 27 | You could see her whole body shaking and I remembered Clement Moore 's The Night Before Christmas ; ‘ a right jolly old elf … with a little round belly that shook when he laughed like a bowlful of jelly . ’ |
| 28 | She shrieked when he went near her with the scissors , and had to be held down by the nurse so that he could take off about twelve inches of her golden curls . |
| 29 | We showed when we pull on the green jerseys , when the real chips are down , that we would die for each other . |
| 30 | It happened when we lived in Perth , Western Australia . |