Example sentences of "[vb past] when [pers pn] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She slithered away on her stomach across the slatted floor , just like her father moved when he played the serpent in the Garden of Eden . |
| 2 | Although he broke his collar bone and fractured his skull , he was saved from fatal injuries because his body was limp and simply bounced when it hit the tarmac . |
| 3 | Water , the original substance which God created when he made the world , represents change , and immersing oneself in a natural body of water is the only way of changing one 's spiritual identity . |
| 4 | As I found when I took the time to listen to parents and hear what they said , the views advanced did not always fit the latest fashion or an approved passage in a book on sociology . |
| 5 | And as far as in the appraisals I mean I found when I did the three s part staff and , and I was , it was that pilot and , and I know |
| 6 | The use of the contract army , however , placed the king in the position of debtor to the military captains , most of whom were members of the titled nobility , and the sums owed by the crown to individual nobles might often be very substantial : in 1386 , for instance , the Earl of Northumberland reached agreement with the Exchequer whereby in return for £700 he discharged the king of all debts owing to the earl ‘ from any time past until the making of this indenture ’ , and the earl was discharged of the debts he incurred when he held the office of Admiral . |
| 7 | The first problem occurred when they left the road and moved off into the open desert . |
| 8 | The Imperial troops posted to defend the river gates from Kislev fled when they saw the green horde stretched out across the horizon and advancing at full speed towards them . |
| 9 | Bryce exclaimed when he found the box of batteries he 'd come in search of . |
| 10 | Roger exclaimed when he opened the door . |
| 11 | They would start to jeer at the company , but stopped when they saw the Hearthware sashes and the Myrcan staves and whispered amongst themselves . |
| 12 | They stopped when they reached the tramstop . |
| 13 | Mrs Joe was saying as she came out of the kitchen , ‘ The pie — has — gone ! ’ but stopped when she saw the soldiers . |
| 14 | He stopped when he saw the twisted grin on Luther 's face , and it made him remember with a falling heart that this man was not his real father . |
| 15 | He stopped when he saw the car and made as if to turn back . |
| 16 | However , her heart sank when she examined the bowl more closely . |
| 17 | ‘ My heart sank when I saw the hill . ’ |
| 18 | Charlie 's heart sank when he read the orders ; he knew the odds against surviving two attacks were virtually unknown . |
| 19 | She was surprised and offended when he left the room . |
| 20 | As well as candles , the company provided stoves and lanterns for troops in the Crimean war , Rangoon oil for lubricating rifles , and the Motorine oil which Rolls-Royce used when it won the Isle of Man TT race in 1906 . |
| 21 | This was the same formula that Harmsworth ( Lord Northcliffe ) used when he launched the Daily Mail in 1896 . |
| 22 | I remember researching the notes for the Bach Brandenburg Concerto you played when you brought the Berlin Philharmonic to play in the Sheldonian in Oxford and coming across a passage in the writing of that great American philosopher Susanne Langer , where she defines the competent artist as someone whose mind is trained and predisposed to see every option in relation to others and the whole . |
| 23 | Frau Nordern asked — and blenched when she heard the figure . |
| 24 | It was little more than Rangers deserved when they took the lead 10 minutes later when the impressive Sinton played a delightful one-two with Holloway before scoring with a rasping drive . |
| 25 | The question is what there is about what we learnt when we learnt the rule for + 2 which makes the continuation 20,002 , 20,004 , 20,006 objectively correct , and 20,004 , 20,008 , 20,012 objectively incorrect . |
| 26 | I suspect that if ever the day came when we had the misfortune of the Labour party inflicting regional government on us from Newcastle , those people would be wondering why their income tax or whatever other form of tax that Labour would seek to impose was so much higher in the northern region than elsewhere . |
| 27 | Walters ' most memorable moment in a Liverpool shirt came when he scored the winner in the 3-0 UEFA Cup win against Auxerre last season , reversing a similar deficit as they face tonight . |
| 28 | Walters ' most memorable moment in a Liverpool shirt came when he scored the winner in the 3-0 UEFA Cup win against Auxerre last season , reversing a similar deficit as they face tonight . |
| 29 | But the time came when he reached the age when the farmer had to pay sixpence a week for his insurance stamp , and he was sent back home because the man said he could n't afford it . |
| 30 | The breaking point came when he reached the side of the gazebo . |