Example sentences of "and [vb past] when [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roman Wyatt was n't so easily dismissed ; his strong dark face and amber eyes danced between her and the dress she was designing and materialised when she was talking to customers , but despite everything it was a satisfying day business-wise , and she said goodnight to Myra with a feeling of achievement . |
| 2 | Tolkien 's contention was that something he called ‘ the ulsterior motive ’ — the bogey of Lewis 's Ulster background — lurked beneath the surface of his imagination , and rose when he was off his guard to make him brutal in manners , crude or illogical in thought . |
| 3 | Joanne Menzies still looked drawn and strained when she ushered Detective-Sergeant McWhirter into Mr Steen 's office on the Monday afternoon . |
| 4 | He was frightened and trembled when he saw iron bars because of his earlier experience of detentions . |
| 5 | And one of the things that is happening and mortified when I first came to this company was I could n't see a straight line through . |
| 6 | I became annoyed and offended when nobody turned up . |
| 7 | She was surprised and offended when he left the room . |
| 8 | She walked along by the shops , and stopped when she came to a door with ‘ Madame Eloise — Hair ’ on it . |
| 9 | Jean-Claude announced himself rested and refreshed when we got back to Paris . |
| 10 | Syria still seems highly problematical , and I have a Dutch friend who turned tail and fled when his approach to territorial waters was marked by the arrival of a reception committee in the shape of a fleet of gunboats . |
| 11 | Was Frederic Manning , for instance , the Australian who would later write Her Privates We , in love with Dorothy , and wounded when she preferred Pound ? |
| 12 | Frau Nordern asked — and blenched when she heard the figure . |
| 13 | He 's a man who has crushed all softness in himself , so why should his son be indulged , be allowed to cry and display his grief , be stroked and cuddled and consoled when he never was ? |
| 14 | Rahman Morina , the Kosovo LC presidium president , was booed and heckled when he tried to address the demonstrators . |
| 15 | Horace Walpole described her as having a ‘ paltry air of significant learning and absurdity ’ , and added that she was so totally lacking in humour that ‘ she repined when she should laugh and reasoned when she should be diverted ’ . |
| 16 | Mrs Tiggy-winkle put her grey curls round the door to see what he wanted and tittered when she saw me captive again . |
| 17 | At the sound of footsteps the Captain looked around , and frowned when he saw it was Mum bearing down on him . |
| 18 | Lieutenant Simon Doggett waited at the crossroads and frowned when he saw the blood on Sharpe 's arm . |
| 19 | He paused for a moment and frowned when he spoke again . |
| 20 | Lowell 's conscience ebbed and flowed when he thought of Ballater and the old man 's anxiety . |
| 21 | Martha longed to show off her advancement in reading and writing , for which she had been noted in the valley , and was bewildered and humiliated when she could make no sense of the books she was given . |
| 22 | The door to his room had been closed and locked when she visited the mother , and she had not bothered to come to the house when Tatyana committed suicide . |
| 23 | He caught sight of a few others , but they turned tail and vanished when they saw him through the mist . |
| 24 | Do you think Bach made funny faces and giggled when he wrote that ? |
| 25 | She handed him the long cane , and flinched when he swished it through the air to produce a vicious , menacing whistle . |
| 26 | The Soviet dictator , Stalin , had n't wanted to fight the Nazis , and panicked when they invaded in 1941 . |
| 27 | The driver charged an enormous amount of money ‘ on account of the petrol crisis ’ and swore when he was n't given a tip to match . |
| 28 | It could have been parked somewhere else on Wednesday and repositioned when our man discovered Mr Goodhaven was still alive . ’ |
| 29 | Oliver bounded upstairs , and slowed when he saw the figures on the landing . |
| 30 | I was so upset and shocked when I came to the hospital and you were gone I could of died . |