Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] when [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Roundhay 's chances were not helped when Barry Willis had to be helped off with a leg injury . |
| 2 | The Chemics were finally rewarded when Aussie Julian O'Neill launched a 70-yard movement finished off by David Hulme . |
| 3 | Rother 's woes were further compounded when Richard Whitmore Jones was injured in the first game and took no further part in the match . |
| 4 | His preparations were further boosted when Barry Breen and Gary Mason came through week-end training sessions without mishap having been previously sidelined through injuries . |
| 5 | First , we should understand that the political hacks were peeved when he won the overwhelming support of his colleagues to represent them on Labour 's shadow cabinet and they were really gutted when John Smith gave him the Scottish Office to shadow . |
| 6 | Two bison , painted 15,000 years ago in a cave known as the Grotte de Mayrieres near Bruniquel , France , were virtually erased when Boy Scouts decided to give them a spring clean under the impression that they were graffiti . |
| 7 | Mr and Mrs Bourne were told by experts their son 's condition was not genetic , and chemicals were commonly used when Mrs Bourne was pregnant . |
| 8 | After 25 minutes , Hammer 's chances were cruelly hit when Gordon Elliott , their experienced striker , limped off injured , to be replaced by the inexperienced but talented Justin Searle . |
| 9 | Japanese officials noticed that politics , not trade , was mostly discussed when Mr Delors visited Washington in April . |
| 10 | For Wasps , there was no chance of making a recovery — even though their duck was eventually broken when Rick Brevant passed to Robert Forbes with 13 minutes remaining — Pandas running on to complete a comfortable victory with three goals in 90 seconds . |
| 11 | But the idea was eventually sunk when Scarborough Council did not back the idea , which was designed to give the shipyard a new lease of life . |
| 12 | Order was only restored when manager Bence doused them in a bucket of cold Bovril . |
| 13 | Important steps in reforming the structure of the economy during June included the launch of a mass privatization scheme , while the position of Yegor Gaidar , who was closely associated with the reform programme , was apparently strengthened when President Boris Yeltsin named him as Prime Minister on June 15 . |
| 14 | Coleraine reduced the arrears when Cahal Deery shot home from an angle , but the home side 's two-goal advantage was soon restored when Jason Gilmore turned inside the box to fire into the next . |
| 15 | Mountbatten 's task was not simplified when General MacArthur saddled him with the additional responsibility of taking over Indonesia and Indo-China , previously within the American sphere . |
| 16 | WORLD WAR II was still raging when Shay French started selling poppies . |
| 17 | Referee , Michael Peck , gave the youngster the benefit of the doubt but Hoult was still punished when Mick Quinn rapped in the penalty to give Newcastle an uncatchable two goal half-time lead . |
| 18 | The Wimpey connection at the Championships was further strengthened when WCUK Birmingham held a special welcome dinner for the British gymnasts and guests which was attended by regional director , Jeff Adams . |
| 19 | The Pennsylvania connection was further strengthened when Alexander Durdin married as his third wife the widow of William Penn , grandson of the colony 's founder . |
| 20 | An already small field was further reduced when Larry Nelson was disqualified for using non-conforming clubs . |
| 21 | The first inkling that anything was wrong came when Prestatyn station box rang Chester Control to query the foreign engine running through his platform , but it was out of section before the reply was received . |
| 22 | The fact that Nikon overreached himself was clearly exposed when Tsar Alexis forced him to withdraw from public affairs and subsequently had him deposed and replaced by a more pliant successor . |
| 23 | After crossing himself and pushing two nuns into a car , he was about to leave when Lady Antonia 's companion intervened : ‘ Excuse me Father , ’ he said , ‘ this lady is the daughter of the good Lord Longford — you know , Lord Longford — and she is making a study of the wicked usurper , Oliver Cromwell . ’ |
| 24 | He was about to leave when Jack Carter limped in . |
| 25 | Eve was about to reply when Maire Carroll came by . |
| 26 | Ranulf was about to reply when Dame Agatha suddenly emerged , carrying a small wooden box of altar breads , so they went across the green to reclaim their horses . |
| 27 | The negotiations continued into 1991 [ see pp. 37658 ; 37716 ; 37861 ; 37919 ; 38195 ] , but the situation was abruptly altered when Mount Pinatubo began erupting in June , causing extensive damage to both the Clark and Subic bases [ see p. 38294 ] . |
| 28 | Some sixty-five million years ago this seemingly endless sedate marine activity was abruptly halted when earth movements lifted up part of the sea-bed to form the continental land mass . |
| 29 | The difficulty of a head was then highlighted when Leila Berg described the crisis which led to the closing of Risinghill Comprehensive School . |
| 30 | That lesson was fully absorbed when Walter Smith took over as Rangers ' manager and made Goram his first domestic signing — and the only Scottish goalkeeper ever to have cost a seven-figure sum . |