Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] when [pron] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite how hard , though , could not have been clear to Sir Denys Henderson when he took the chair at Britain 's biggest manufacturing company five years ago . |
| 2 | This was n't quite what I told Dennis when he brought the matter up . |
| 3 | Sam Stopps , 14 , for Labour , was serious and intense , but caused giggles when he raised the subject of crime . |
| 4 | This scene of chaos confronted Ray when he regained the sitting-room . |
| 5 | Opponents loudly jeered and barracked Premadasa when he addressed the opening parliamentary session on Sept. 24 , causing the state-run radio to suspend its live broadcast transmission . |
| 6 | This extra effort paid dividends when she won the school dancing competition at the end of the spring term in 1976 . |
| 7 | Leith had switched thoughts to endeavour to find some sound reason for telephoning Rosemary when he handed the phone over to her . |
| 8 | Though the two men fell out , Blaize is thought later to have financed Jackson when he started the Lagos Weekly Times in 1890 . |
| 9 | I should have known I would have problems when I crossed the border of a place whose name I could hardly pronounce — Mosonmagyaróvár . |
| 10 | The actress Jane Asher , author of books on really sticky cakes , asked the audience to boycott Nescafe when she accepted the consumer section award on behalf of the Baby Milk Action Coalition , which has criticised the Swiss giant for selling milk substitutes to third world babes . |
| 11 | The ride from Pimlico to Portobello took well over ninety minutes and it was gone midnight when I beached the car on a double yellow line outside my sock . |
| 12 | ‘ Where on earth have you been ? ’ demanded Polly when she opened the front door . |
| 13 | I remembered times when I rang the bell and there had been no answer . |
| 14 | RANDALSTOWN completed a superb double winning season when they added the Renault Senior League title to the Winemark Ulster Shield . |
| 15 | In July he saw his party make history when it won the first governorship conceded by the ruling party in 60 years . |
| 16 | ‘ I know what you 're thinking , ’ Minton teased Tindle when he saw the painting in the studio at Hamilton Terrace , ‘ but it 's too late to change the floorboards now . ’ |