Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] when [pers pn] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were difficult years , and I felt I 'd served my sentence when we parted company . |
| 2 | My last boss used to fumble under my skirt when I took dictation . |
| 3 | ‘ Clinton 's sex appeal shot up in my opinion when he became President . ’ |
| 4 | All these thoughts were racing through my head when I came face to face with you , and when you did n't show me out I could n't entirely understand why . |
| 5 | I missed my drink when you drink Martini . |
| 6 | I was a Sunday School teacher erm when I was in my secondary school and I wondered what God would want me to do with my life when I left school and I thought maybe he wants me to be a missionary and I thought it was only teachers and doctors that could be missionaries I was wrong was n't I ? |
| 7 | ‘ I remember as a child getting tingles up my spine when I watched television and heard Land of my Fathers when Wales played in Cardiff . |
| 8 | Sharon Griffiths was travelling in a car driven by her sister when it collided head on with the stolen vehicle . |
| 9 | A Downpatrick jury acquitted the trainee officer of murder , believing she was out of her mind when she attacked love rival Penny with a razor-sharp blade at Drumkeeragh Forest , outside Ballynahinch in March 1991 . |
| 10 | There would be no food either , nor place to lay her head when it grew dark . |
| 11 | She was about to reach for her drink when she caught sight of the car out of the corner of her eye as it pulled up on the opposite side of the road — a white BMW , identical to the one her uncle had . |
| 12 | Crofting made its impact when we moved house from one of the quiet streets , in the middle of the town , to the road which was planned by a wealthy proprietor as an elegant tree-lined approach to Lews Castle , but which also happened to be the shortest route between a dozen crofting villages , lying to the east of the town , and their 19,000 acres of general common pasture which lay to the west . |
| 13 | When , wondered Scarlet , drearily , would she ever learn not to hope , not to believe her daughter when she expressed interest in some aspect of her school work ? |
| 14 | And I shall have him flogged in their sight when I perceive dissension to our wise governance . |
| 15 | It is an ideology that calls itself pluralism when it imposes monoculture ; that speaks of choice as it snuffs out the biodiversity of the earth ; that cries democracy when it eclipses and denies all alternatives . |
| 16 | The prophecy that the chief Ringwraith will not fall ‘ by the hand of man ’ , and his check when he realises Dernhelm is a woman , similarly parallels the Witches ' assurance to Macbeth and his disconcertment when told ‘ Macduff was from his mother 's womb/Untimely ripped . ’ |
| 17 | She already knew his movements off by heart : the way he rubbed the bridge of his nose when he made fun of her ; how his upper lip crinkled as he laughed ; his habit of pulling his ear as he made a point he thought important . |
| 18 | A BOARDING house owner who killed his friend when they set fire to the building for the insurance was jailed for five years yesterday . |
| 19 | ‘ I found them outside his door when I took master and mistress their early morning tea . ’ |
| 20 | TOUGH guy Sylvester Stallone , left , lived up to his image when he helped rescue girlfriend Jennifer Flavin from a mountain . |
| 21 | He was quite capable of flattening everything in his path when he gave vent to one of his rare but terrifying fits of temper . |
| 22 | The peanut farmer captivated America with his Colgate smile but he was a different sight three years into his presidency when he took part in a six-mile road race . |
| 23 | The experience was later dredged out of his subconscious when he played drug addict Lenny Bruce . |
| 24 | In 1588 , several inhabitants of Shrewsbury were imprisoned after physically resisting the attempts of the magistrates to pull down a maypole , and the following year the Mayor of Canterbury was confronted with a protest morris dance outside his house when he forbade maypole dancing in the town . |
| 25 | She had seen his face when he made love to the piano . |
| 26 | Speaking French can be useful on holiday , can open up new friendships and may eventually help you in your work when you leave school . |
| 27 | There is something free , reckless , vaguely counter-cultural about it ; it ignores the voice of prudence and takes us back to the days of our youth when we defied authority by taking it up . |