Example sentences of "[vb pp] when [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her feelings had been mixed when she had seen who it was climbing out of the taxi . |
| 2 | ‘ The decision is whether the availability for work issue is addressed when they start building the houses , ’ he added . |
| 3 | I believe that music-lovers are deluded when they claim to find artistic pleasure in any but a fraction of this music . |
| 4 | The final act of betrayal by William 's ministers was committed when they failed to call Parliament within twenty days of his death ( a violation of the Act of Security of 1696 ) , so that the Privy Council would have time to declare war on France without facing opposition from the Scottish Parliament . |
| 5 | The Ferghana party secretary was shot and slightly wounded when he tried to address a crowd ; and 5,000 men armed with automatic rifles and pistols were reported to have stormed party and government buildings in the ancient city of Kokand ( if Izvestiya 's report was to be believed , they carried a portrait of Lenin in front of them with a message written on the back of it which called for the slaughter of all Turks and Russians and ended ‘ Long live the Islamic republic and Ayatollah Khomeini ’ ) . |
| 6 | His hair was white , as my daughters reported when they went to view the body before it was given to the Odonata . |
| 7 | Under these circumstances , a " Device full " error would be reported when you tried to write data to the file for the first time . |
| 8 | This endorsement should be added when we have insisted that an alarm should be fitted to improve security at the home . |
| 9 | This endorsement should be added when we have insisted that a safe be installed at the home to improve security , usually when the policy covers a lot of valuable jewellery . |
| 10 | Arthur said he 'd never had their second message , and the fuss all died down , but he 's always come when we 've sent for him . ’ |
| 11 | The time 's come when I 've got to make a change . |
| 12 | He felt a weight lifted when she had gone — he had so nearly fallen into her trap . |
| 13 | Then she remembered the way he 'd looked when she 'd talked about the Venetian nobility . |
| 14 | He remembered , suddenly , how she had looked when he had seen her after her first shock treatment , her lips bitten and bruised . |
| 15 | Oddly the cottage was fully booked when we tried to take it again at Easter . |
| 16 | BRAVE police were attacked when they tried to save a motorist from a 1,000 strong ‘ lynch mob ’ . |
| 17 | Savage said he was rescued by members of the militant Pan Africanist Congress and army soldiers after he was attacked when he stopped to help children caught up in unrest between striking taxi drivers and police . |
| 18 | She had not exaggerated when she 'd said she felt weary . |
| 19 | But calling something a science does not guarantee that its practitioners forthwith cease to be attracted to the same specious accounts of what it is to communicate to which the rest of us are attracted when we try to say what communicating is . |
| 20 | Everything had been shattered when he 'd brought another dimension into the situation , tried to force something she did n't want , something she did n't think she could ever face again … |
| 21 | An elderly man , who was walking his pet , collapsed when he tried to beat off the Rottweiler . |
| 22 | He was caught when she tried to pay an 80p supermarket bill with a forged £20 note . |
| 23 | Yousefi was caught when he tried to cash a cheque at a London bank but the name of Garawand was on a defaulters list . |
| 24 | A STOWAWAY who jumped ship was caught when he tried to call relatives in North Africa from a motorway phone . |
| 25 | The injuries which had been forgotten when he had levelled his furious accusations . |
| 26 | She remembered how the temperature in the restaurant had dropped when she had made her unwitting gaffe . |
| 27 | All this damage can be repaired when we have beaten the Boche . ’ |
| 28 | The last tour of India was cancelled when they refused to allow Graham Gooch to lead England because he had toured South Africa . |
| 29 | The adventures usually contain puzzles that have to be solved , cryptic advice , plays on words , red herrings , and some really useful information that is only revealed when you 've asked the computer the right question , correctly phrased . |
| 30 | Well actually on the television I do n't know whether you 've noticed when they start talking about burglaries and things like that the picture that comes on is Newlands Park you know . |