Example sentences of "[vb past] when [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | An article which appeared in the paper contained comments by three jurors on what occurred when they retired to consider their verdict in one of the most complex trials in British legal history . |
| 5 | He said the biggest problems faced by transsexuals occurred when they decided to change their sex after marrying and having children . |
| 6 | The following examples illustrate the sorts of problems we encountered when we tried to apply our notion of ‘ shared tasks ’ in these classrooms . |
| 7 | The dried blood from my nose was smeared all over the front of my mouth and it cracked when I tried to move my lips . |
| 8 | He had tried all his usual lines , Paul , Garvin , others , the ones he always used when he wanted to get official policy reversed or amended , and he had got nowhere . |
| 9 | Rahman Morina , the Kosovo LC presidium president , was booed and heckled when he tried to address the demonstrators . |
| 10 | What was the most useful thing you learnt when you started working/teaching ? |
| 11 | Later , a great step came when we started making films . |
| 12 | WALL 'S : The company 's great breakthrough came when they decided to buy trikes to sell their ice-cream around the streets in the 1920s . |
| 13 | In fact Libya 's only legal infraction came when it offered to release the two to the Arab League . |
| 14 | Anyway , the day came when he asked to see Jimmy and me . |
| 15 | Fairbrother 's anxious moment came when he had made 43 during yesterday 's Benson & Hedges Cup semifinal victory against Leicestershire at Grace Road . |
| 16 | It was simply their headquarters where they came to trade , where they came to er perhaps attend law courts but particularly where the prior of came when he came to do services at the Minster because he was a canon of York as well as being canon or the parish of Bramham which gave him a seat in the Cathedral . |
| 17 | Courier 's only glimmer of hope came when he broke serve in the first game of the third set , but it was only a momentary lapse of concentration by the German , who so likes to win in front of his countrymen and women , as he broke back in the next game . |
| 18 | Conflict with teachers came when he refused to play in a school football match which clashed with a geography class . |
| 19 | My worst moment came when I had to change film . |
| 20 | One slight annoyance came when I tried to procure the sound of a valve amp just on the edge of distortion , like an AC30 or a Vibroverb just going into mild overload . |
| 21 | ‘ The problems came when I started to find myself more and more entrenched in the business side of things , and unable to actually design stuff like before . |
| 22 | Inevitably she got down , and the day came when she had to go , for her own sake really . |
| 23 | But one major turning point came when she started going to carpentry evening classes and found she had real talent for do-it-yourself . |
| 24 | It all reminded me of what I received when I dared to make some mild criticism of the habits of cyclists and for much the same reason . |
| 25 | G was green , the colour that B , the biter , turned when she had swallowed apple A. ‘ H , IH ’ , she said , ‘ especially in the stomach , but soon she ached everywhere else as well . |
| 26 | His face was white , his hands shook when he tried to write . |
| 27 | Alright , and then there 's this extraordinary bit erm , that George has in the middle of page thirty , about what happened when he did run the history department for four years during the War . |
| 28 | Can you tell me about the er incident that happened when you went to meet erm Brian at the council offices ? |
| 29 | So what happened when you going to have the le , the lesson were you |
| 30 | ‘ How I should enjoy meeting your Inspector Nathan Latimer , Madame ! ’ he sighed when she had finished . |