Example sentences of "[noun sg] when [pron] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Bowden said he pulled over onto the grass verge and was about level with the car when he heard two thuds as two other cars ran into it . |
| 2 | But Mr Smith , in his first speech as leader to the TUC , deliberately ignored the controversial one-member one-vote issue when he addressed 800 delegates at Brighton . |
| 3 | She was in the process of resuming her scientific work when she died 6 June 1945 in Cambridge , following a bicycle accident . |
| 4 | Last August he was playing on scaffolding at a block of flats near his home when he fell 20 feet to the ground . |
| 5 | His response to the captain 's surprised question , 'so you came to Czechoslovakia to go to the football match , Professor ? " ( p. 71 ) is , initially , to violate the maxim of quality ( " Certainly not " ) and then to imply that this is not entirely the case by violating the maxims of quantity and relevance when he provides three excuses for not attending all the sessions of the Colloquium instead of admitting the truth . |
| 6 | A publisher is eligible for membership when they publish fifteen titles , ten of which must have been commercially exploited land they must all have been written by PRS writer members ) . |
| 7 | The boys had been out on their bikes with a friend when they saw two men shooting into the brook . |
| 8 | The pilot of a puma helicopter flying between the Magnus Oil platform and another platform when he saw two bombers ahead of him . |
| 9 | Essex paceman Neil Foster , hotly tipped for an England recall this summer , lived up to his nickname when he kicked two stumps out of the ground just before tea . |
| 10 | In spite of this , he had a remarkable record of achievement when he died 11 October 1899 , at Saranac Lake , New York state . |
| 11 | Constable Dale Buckingham had just collected the car from the scene of the raid , in Bristol , and was taking it to his police station when he saw two men he suspected of being involved in the raid , and stopped . |
| 12 | Cardiff were never allowed to demonstrate clearly that they were the fitter and more composed League team , despite an early assault when they forced five corners . |
| 13 | In the last game when we lost two players in the same position the last thing I wanted was to come to a quick decision with my brain still buzzing after a training session . |
| 14 | Isabel could have bitten her tongue when she saw one corner of fitzAlan 's mouth kick up . |
| 15 | A TEENAGER may have saved passengers on a sleeper train when he cleared two shopping trolleys from the line minutes before the train arrived . |
| 16 | And Patrick Scott threw Britain a crucial lifeline when he scored six minutes from time to cancel out Miroslav Tomasik 's second goal for Poland two minutes earlier . |
| 17 | For example when you buy two 3″ ( 7.5cm ) butterflies and a 4″ ( 10cm ) juvenile Emperor Angel . |
| 18 | That led to TV appearances on Carrott 's Lib and Saturday Night Live , but her career took an unexpected turn when she spent 16 months with Robert Lindsay in the West End musical , Me And My Girl . |
| 19 | Ronnie Barker was hoping for a peaceful life when he retired six years ago . |
| 20 | The Road Bunker 's fame burgeoned , no doubt , in 1978 when the luckless Japanese Tsuneyuki ( Tommy ) Nakajima dropped out of contention in The Open Championship when he took four shots to get out of the bunker . |
| 21 | The youngsters had a severe chest infection when he arrived ten days ago which delayed treatment . |
| 22 | Anyhow — it was Lyles at play or post work recreation when they gathered two teams together on 3rd May and had a good game of football at the Cumbernauld Sports Centre . |
| 23 | Payne , who three-putted the seventeenth was fortunate to be given a second chance by Gillner , who looked set to gain his first senior win when he required two par 4s at the seventeenth and eighteenth . |
| 24 | Manchester United looked like they had forced themselves into the second round of the UEFA Cup when they went two goals ahead after four spot kicks when Paul Ince and Denis Irwin buried their chances . |
| 25 | ANNADALE Striders increased their lead in the Panasonic Area athletics league when they finished 27 points clear of Ballymena and Antrim in the second round at Antrim yesterday . |
| 26 | On the main when you knit two colours in a row ( that is Fair Isle ) you are able to thread both colours in one row with one pass of the carriage . |
| 27 | In October the Coast Guard made the largest maritime seizure when they found 11,500 lb of cocaine on a freighter in the Gulf of Mexico . |
| 28 | With no reserve football in Italy it 's hard for Milan to keep all their stars happy but , with Burlusconi having pumped £50m into a club which as £15m in debt when he arrived seven years ago , there are few grumbles on the terraces . |
| 29 | POLICE smashed a social security scam when they arrested 40 men at seaside guest houses yesterday . |
| 30 | This was compounded in her case when she jumped 20 places on the world computer in 1987 after reaching the third round at Edgbaston . |