Example sentences of "[vb past] when [pron] [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as far as in the appraisals I mean I found when I did the three s part staff and , and I was , it was that pilot and , and I know |
| 2 | The Imperial troops posted to defend the river gates from Kislev fled when they saw the green horde stretched out across the horizon and advancing at full speed towards them . |
| 3 | He stopped when he saw the twisted grin on Luther 's face , and it made him remember with a falling heart that this man was not his real father . |
| 4 | This was the same formula that Harmsworth ( Lord Northcliffe ) used when he launched the Daily Mail in 1896 . |
| 5 | But the actual impetus to ‘ act ’ only came when I met the right people in the right context … that is , Gerry and Amitha and the rest of the Working Party . |
| 6 | A young woman who was with her hid when she heard the first shots and witnessed what happened . |
| 7 | Most of them broke when I peeled the real leaf off the chocolate which I 'd painted on — not quite up to Mum 's standards of patience and perfection , but who ever saw lots of perfect leaves ( not on a tree ) anyway . |
| 8 | Swail 's hopes of getting back in the match virtually disappeared when he lost the first frame of the final session . |
| 9 | I laughed when I heard the old cliché about ‘ having him under my feet . ’ |
| 10 | Yanto laughed when he realised the old joker had palmed the sawdust and was allowing it to trickle in such a way as to give the impression that it was trickling from his ear . |
| 11 | Despite himself , Bishop shivered when he heard the flat intonation of Tiw Heimdall 's voice . |
| 12 | But this in essence is just what Pooh did when he inferred the same belief about honey from his direct observation of bees . |
| 13 | Kenneth smiled when he saw the hand-painted sign at the outskirts of the village that said , ‘ Thank You . ’ |
| 14 | Remember what he said when we called the first time ? |
| 15 | ‘ Hi , ’ he said when she opened the front door . |
| 16 | ‘ Rascals , ’ Fat Watt said when he noticed the far-off plumes of smoke , and stumbled off as though everything had been said that could be said . |
| 17 | As Piaget said when he reported the original finding , trying to explain the children 's behaviour away by saying that they ‘ misinterpret the question ’ is circular : of course they are misinterpreting the question and the next question is about cognitive determinants of this misinterpretation — this ‘ non-conservation ’ . |
| 18 | The feeling I had when I rose the following morning was a strange one . |
| 19 | 160 , the visitors observed that Lord Denning was not using the word ‘ delegate ’ in the narrow sense in which it is sometimes used today any more than Lord Mansfield had when he used the same word in a similar context in Rex v. Benchers of Gray 's Inn , 1 Doug . |
| 20 | A woman fainted when he spoke the previous day , the hall was so crowded . |
| 21 | The aircraft quivered when it penetrated the thin layers of cloud in its path . |
| 22 | Jessica and I met when we joined the same company within a day of each other — both straight from school . |
| 23 | What Dilys Powell missed when she described The Wicked Lady as a concatenation of ‘ the hoary , the tedious , the disagreeable , ’ as did other critics who saw Gainsborough 's films as a reassertion of an old escapist tendency in British cinema , was how much of an advance such films offered on everything of a similar sort that had gone before , and how they touched the sentiments of audiences who could no longer respond to stories of gallant endeavour quite as they could when it seemed that defeat was an imminent possibility . |
| 24 | At some point before 664 Ealhfrith ejected Eata , abbot of Melrose and a pupil of Aidan ( HE III , 16 ) , and his companion , Cuthbert , who would not accept the Catholic Easter and other canonical rites of the Roman Church , from his new foundation at Ripon and committed it instead to Wilfrid ( HE III , 25 : V , 19 ) It was with Ealhfrith that Bishop Agilbert and his priest , Agatho , stayed when they visited the northern Angles prior to arguing in favour of the Dionysian Easter at the council of Whitby ( HE III , 25 ) . |