Example sentences of "when [noun] [verb] in " in BNC.

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1 So , when Thurstan arrived in England in 1121 with papal letters threatening with excommunication any who resisted his admission into England , the monks of Canterbury recited the primatial phrases from the newly enlarged documents and refrained from taking further action for the time being .
2 It is obviously too painful to talk about it — especially when fingers point in the direction of City Hall .
3 Sadly when Roger left in nineteen eighty-six it took the education of who provided Roger 's er salary until point successor .
4 When Parliament met in the autumn of 1381 , the Speaker expressed the view that the troubles had been caused by abuses in government , notably by purveyance for the royal household and by the levy of taxation for the defence of the realm , particularly as this did not prevent the King 's enemies from raiding England .
5 When Parliament met in May 1685 it proved to be overwhelmingly Tory in sympathy , there being only fifty-seven Whigs in a House of Commons totalling 513 members .
6 It knew somehow that it belonged there , not here , and when thunder boomed in the sky it heard that thunder in its newly transmogrified body .
7 When birds feed in the mud , they take in the bacteria which paralyzes their legs and necks .
8 As an example , when Ellis died in 1962 , a newly-recruited TDC guard received $256 per month with fringe benefits such as uniforms , and can not have been highly regarded in a society which measures status by money .
9 No one was ever convicted of Edward 's murder , though when Mortimer fell in 1330 he was accused of procuring the king 's death .
10 They went to bed and when Lavinia woke in the night it was Timothy Gedge she thought of , not her lost child .
11 Nevertheless , it was no more than Scotland deserved for perseverance , and a fitting punishment for the obstinate Maltese when Nevin squeezed in a third goal in the 85th minute to ensure Scotland 's opening victory of this World Cup campaign .
12 It was just after nine the following night , rain pounding in from the Atlantic , when Asa stood in the control tower at Laville and watched the Dornier take off .
13 Hayling and Walsh had already probed the possibility of getting their hands on some of this money , but it was only when Horsley arrived in March 1986 that things began to really move .
14 When Glycerius died in 474 , however , Gundobad seems to have returned to Gaul .
15 Academically , the School prospered : Thomas Ashe was given a special Exhibition at St. John 's College , Cambridge ( the other two were already taken up ) , and when Howell died in August 1858 Mr. C. E. Norris , an Old Boy and a previous Goldsmiths ' Exhibitioner at St. John 's College , Cambridge , was appointed to take over .
16 On the day arrangements went smoothly and we were settling ourselves on the 1220 ex Llangollen when Colin appeared in person , having done his work in the small hours and put our visit ahead of his sleep !
17 Alone both Yorkshire and Tyne Tees would have been vulnerable to takeover , when rules lapse in 1994 to allow rival TV companies to make bids for each other .
18 When ions floating in the water happen to bump into the hard surface of the crystal , they tend to stick .
19 And when racism exploded in the eighteenth century — to justify slavery — it wiped out any acknowledgement of African achievements .
20 The issue erupted again when asbestos spilled in the factory over the first weekend in June and Raybestos management announced it had closed down that section of the factory .
21 When William arrived in England he met with pockets of resistance in various parts of the country from Tory groups .
22 But when Clift confided in her about his homosexual tendencies , she referred him to a colleague whom she felt could help him infinitely more than she could .
23 Romania 's entry into the war against Austria at the end of August served only to lengthen Russia 's frontier , laying her open to further attack when Romania collapsed in December 1916 .
24 When Keating painted in the style of Palmer , he was picked up by the Fraud Squad .
25 The scenes were acted swiftly in her mind : when Frere turned in bewilderment to Emilia the woman would deny that any such confidence had been exchanged ; accused of mischief , Louisa would be forgiven by neither ; the ‘ intolerable slander ’ ( for such it would be called ) would furnish a pretext for Emilia 's immediate departure from Munding ; and Frere , if he remained , would be friendless .
26 Yes , we grieve when tragedy strikes in such awful forms as we have seen recently .
27 When Spring came in the door .
28 It 's funny er when Richard came in the other day and said he 'd been he 'd been to the dentist and you said oh well they have n't been in touch with us yet .
29 Do it when Marie comes in
30 When coalition died in 1924 , not all recognized that coalitionism must die with it .
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