Example sentences of "when [pron] saw [adj] [noun] [v-ing] " in BNC.

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1 I had just checked into the hotel and come down to the sunken terrace when I saw armed men running in a crouched position by the swimming pool .
2 I 've just realized I have n't either , when I saw that woman crossing the road I thought it was her .
3 When I saw that woman crossing the road , I thought it was here .
4 You loathed it when you saw other people behaving like this and yet you could no more control it in yourself than you could any other automatic physical reflex .
5 ‘ A guest , Colonel Merrick 's wife , was in one of the rooms upstairs brushing her hair by candlelight in front of the mirror , when she saw this face peering over her shoulder .
6 We were as glad as anything when we saw this rain coming down .
7 The boys had been out on their bikes with a friend when they saw two men shooting into the brook .
8 Barry Jones boiled over when he saw 63-year-old Vera brewing up for a local hospice on her day off .
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