Example sentences of "[vb pp] when [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was profoundly unnerved when I read the screenplay ; quite shaking with fear and disturbance . |
| 2 | 17 ( 13 ) CITY OF JOY : Drop-out doctor Patrick Swayze finds his conscience is pricked when he visits the slums of Calcutta . |
| 3 | 20 ( 17 ) CITY OF JOY : Drop-out doctor Patrick Swayze finds his conscience pricked when he visits the slums of Calcutta . |
| 4 | Easily recognised by his boar 's head tie , his enthusiasm and appetite was first whetted when he met the ‘ iron-age ’ pig several years ago . |
| 5 | The firm 's managing director , Jim Heslop , was applauded when he described the scheme as ‘ EC and MAFF bureaucratic lunacy . ’ |
| 6 | Their worst excesses were committed when they reached the Delta districts where amid the Burmese there were villages of the Karen minority . |
| 7 | So far we have distinguished two levels of stylistic variation : that of sense reference , and that of syntax sense , but a further level will be added when we consider the multilevel coding of language in more detail in Chapter 4 . |
| 8 | Indeed , he was just about to ask to be substituted when he collected the ball in the 38th minute on the edge of the area with his back to goal . |
| 9 | Ashton 's design for Pepe , the dog , in The Wedding Bouquet was bettered when he created the Town and Bad Mice , Pigling Bland and the other animals in the film The Tales of Beatrix Potter . |
| 10 | You can derive an enormous amount of satisfaction from restoring old frames and returning them to their former glory , and it is astonishing the number of attractive frames that are discarded when someone changes the colour scheme of their home or sorts through their attic and throws out something that is battered but still beautiful . |
| 11 | The simplicity of our initial beliefs about how signs might be used to alleviate the plight of deaf pupils was quickly overwhelmed when we realised the extensiveness of sign language itself . |
| 12 | Only Raimundo 's lurchers responded when she combed the burrs out of their coats and fed them bits of meat . |
| 13 | The illusion was shattered when someone turned the conversation with an interjection , laying out the assumptions of the speaker , imposing others which seemed as good or better . |
| 14 | But Annie 's plans for a restful break were shattered when she discovered the holiday hideaway has a ghost . |
| 15 | Great efforts have been made to restore the salmon runs on rivers in the American north-east , only for 70-90 per cent of the fish to be caught when they reach the rich feeding grounds off the west coast of Greenland . |
| 16 | SHERYL Garratt says her heart dropped when she saw the ages of the jury . |
| 17 | Suddenly she dropped his hand and slid her arms about his waist , knowing she 'd won when she felt the thunder of his heart against her cheek as she burrowed her face against his chest . |
| 18 | There were moments of hope , such as the time Gary seemed to settle in the scouts , but they were dashed when he stole the troop 's funds . |
| 19 | I wonder well they did , they certainly were living in Pegswood , but I 've noticed when they bring the children to school the car frequently comes along the river way . |
| 20 | She had n't even noticed when they reached the village . |
| 21 | However , it is unlikely that biologists will be misunderstood when they apply the term to animals . |
| 22 | Housewives and volunteer workers , to whom Freidson denies strict market value and hence the status of performing professional work , do sometimes have exchange value granted them : in courts of law household tasks have been assigned wage values and the voluntary sessions ‘ given ’ by consultant physicians and surgeons in the pre-1948 ‘ voluntary hospitals ’ had their work costed when they joined the NHS . |
| 23 | Er , as I said the government has already accepted when we introduced the legislation last year in the criminal justice act on money laundering , that there are far wider er interests and fidrer fi far wider implications than there have been ever before and I think the government needs to do a little bit more to show that it is aware of international implications and the sheer scale of what we 're dealing with and er I touched earlier on the question of indemnity , er perhaps the minister could specifically address that point . |
| 24 | The papers to which he had referred , and which he kept in a tin box underneath his bed , contained an unexpected coda to this small adventure — an unfortunate little postscript which reminded me how Captain Scott must have felt when he reached the South Pole only to find that Amundsen had beaten him to it . |
| 25 | The prosecutor has alleged that the police were shot when they stopped the men 's car for a routine check . |
| 26 | I 'ad a long stint wiv Galloway an' I was gutted when I got the push an' we 'ad ter get out o' the 'ouse . |
| 27 | From outside it looked like a faded bell but within was a brilliant and sumptuous chamber of fiery gold adorned with most exquisite tapestry , and it moved me as much as I was moved when I saw the dome of the Blue Mosque at Isfahan , the most beautiful building I have ever seen . |
| 28 | Has the fella said when he left the note , |
| 29 | ( The directory is updated with the length of the new file you have just written when you close the file . ) |
| 30 | Their first attempt , however , was foiled when they lost the centre leaf and had to walk out at this point . |