Example sentences of "was [adj] when they " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was asleep when they entered . |
| 2 | I half-wished he could get away — though where would he go if he did ? — and was sorry when they caught him , though he seemed docile enough and stood calmly by his captor , who patted his neck as he threw his head up and down . |
| 3 | It was light when they reached their destination , a small house some miles outside Stockholm , but his condition was hardly any better . |
| 4 | The morale of the Lawrence Tiller Girls was high when they appeared in two Royal Command Performance shows before he retired in 1936 |
| 5 | Well you see there was another when they built it , the new , the p the present site there are there too . |
| 6 | Perhaps it was different when they were alone , and they laughed together . |
| 7 | The point is that the experts were convinced Leakey was wrong when they could not possibly have known this to be the case In his rollicking ‘ Steady-state cosmology revisited ’ , Sir Fred Hoyle recounts what occurred when a paper submitted by his fellow astrophysicist Sir Hermann Bondi was set before that august body , the Royal Astronomical Society . |
| 8 | She was worried lest Uncle Vernon or Lily might see her going into Philip Neri 's and was relieved when they went instead to St Peter 's in Seel Street . |
| 9 | She was relieved when they abandoned the jeep for a brief ferry ride across the bay , and stepped ashore at a softly lit veranda restaurant among swaying coconut palms . |
| 10 | Mrs Lamport contacted the theatre museum in London and was delighted when they invited her to look around their archives . |
| 11 | It was dark when they reached the outskirts of Edinburgh . |
| 12 | The train journey lasted all day , and it was dark when they arrived at the station . |
| 13 | It was dark when they got outside , and , walking silently beside him , she stared up at the stars , and gave an unconscious little sigh . |
| 14 | She was violent when they came together in her bedroom a short while later . |
| 15 | Ruth was horrified when they went below and she saw their sleeping space . |
| 16 | ‘ She was fine when they left , ’ he said , ‘ and Anthony explained that pneumonia is very quick to develop . |
| 17 | I 'd I was I was glad when they said no more can move into Green , cos I was thinking , Well my sister 's getting a house soon and my other sister she 's getting a house and I do n't want them two living round here as well cos the me mam and dad wo n't be able to see them either , you know if they move into the flats so I was glad . |
| 18 | Even so , Virginia was glad when they finally reached the baths and found there was a choice of communal outdoor pools or private indoor ones . |
| 19 | It was late when they reached the great house , but the moon was full , and the night air was warm and still . |
| 20 | Though it was late when they reached home , he felt compelled to ring Harcourt . |
| 21 | It was late when they arrived at the old house and by tacit consent they went straight to bed . |
| 22 | ‘ It was good when they were on the bridge in the rain , and bicycles kept criss-crossing behind them . ’ |
| 23 | For a start , the weather was atrocious when they most needed to acclimatize , and in their first seven weeks they had only seventeen days of cricket . |
| 24 | But I was stunned when they took out the curlers — it looked even worse ! ’ |
| 25 | Everyone agreed that tinnitus was worse when they were tired , particularly when they were mentally tired rather than physically tired . |
| 26 | The house was hot when they got back into it and they walked around with nothing on in the dark rooms with windows and doors open . |
| 27 | I was amazed when they attacked me . |
| 28 | I was amazed when they came back with a prototype . |
| 29 | " I was amazed when they told me what I could bring . |
| 30 | The door of the sickroom was open when they got there , and inside was quietness , and no movement except Abul Ismail 's , withdrawing a slow , smoothing hand from the pillow . |