Example sentences of "[vb pp] when [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She always felt unnerved when she researched at the august Victoria and Albert Museum and became only too conscious of her lack of formal training . |
| 2 | According to folklore if a traveller on horseback leaves a horse needing a new shoe together with a coin , the horse will have been shod when they return to the spot . |
| 3 | Her voice was muffled when she crawled under the oilcloth-covered table to search for Quimper bits . |
| 4 | It does not even come up to the extremely modest levels of convenience that the shepherds expected when they took to the hills for the summer with their animals ; also on show in Lourdes 's museum is a portable wooden cabin , with handles at either end , like a horizontal sedan chair . |
| 5 | The Easoe scientists said that the ozone loss was more serious than they had expected when they embarked on the £14 million experiment in late 1991 . |
| 6 | The black gloom of his anger was effaced when he stepped into the open air . |
| 7 | It 'll all be forgotten when we get to the woods , you 'll see . |
| 8 | Instinctively she knew how to pleasure him in return , exalted when he moaned at the delicacy of her touch and begged for her to increase the pressure of her caresses , until they reached the point of no return together , their bodies joining in a union so satisfying , so complete that in that moment of culmination Gina no longer felt a separate entity . |
| 9 | His rise was secured when he wed into the British middle class by marrying army captain 's daughter Isabella Sarah Moorsom . |
| 10 | Their only concern was that , in the darkness , one , or more , of the ropes had been loosened too much and it would be noticed when they emerged from the back of the van . |
| 11 | In June 1965 the plaintiff , a child of six , was severely injured when he stepped on the line , having passed through the broken fence . |
| 12 | ‘ Take care , ’ said Rufus , and not looking back any more than he had done when they returned from the cemetery , drove off round the town he had got to know so well , over the Stour bridge , into Essex , heading for Halstead and Dunmow and Ongar and London . |
| 13 | This they had done when they descended on the genteel town of Winchelsea . |
| 14 | You get it done when you go to the doctors do n't you ? |
| 15 | A boy who was one of the first British babies born under water in a ‘ birthing tub ’ drowned when he fell in the River Avon , a Plymouth inquest heard yesterday … |
| 16 | At the beginning Dickens piles up adjectives in order to set the scene and build atmosphere as is shown when he writes in the first chapter |
| 17 | But an interesting analogy with the US can be drawn when it comes to the Urgent Issues Task Force . |
| 18 | Queen Victoria had the curtains of her train window drawn when she passed through the region so that her eyes should not be offended by its ugliness and squalor . |
| 19 | Derelict , he had thought when they drove through the main street . |
| 20 | Orrell are top of the first division … but then again there are n't many easy matches to be had when you look at the other ties |
| 21 | Her background as a social worker helped when she intervened in the child abuse row and played a key role in drawing up new guidelines on how the social services should handle future cases . |
| 22 | But the S Q L code which is sent to it has to be interpreted when it gets to the server machine , and we all know the difference between compiled and interpreted code . |
| 23 | The little semi-det that Maxim 's parents had bought when they retired to the outskirts of Littlehampton sported a Geor-gian bow window , timber cladding above the garage — which had a metal door — and tile-hung patches around the first-floor windows , whose balconies were just big enough for a seagull to stand on . |
| 24 | Once the President had retired to his quarters for the short flight , the DDI opened the envelope he 'd been handed when he arrived at the airport . |
| 25 | It also included statements by the Palm Beach police detailing how they were misled when they went to the estate to speak with Senator Kennedy and Smith on March 31 . |
| 26 | The horse reared and its front legs buckled when it returned to the ground , pitching the jockey on his head in the 21 August race . |
| 27 | Attempts to light a fire in the glacial dining-room had to be abandoned when it smoked out the house . |
| 28 | Carrie lifted her head and looked at him , and what she saw was a young boy , the same young boy she had known when she lived in the cottage . |
| 29 | Not very much pressure , to be sure — otherwise all of us would be flattened when we stepped into the sun on a sunny day — but pressure nevertheless . |
| 30 | In the first case of ( 21 ) , the subject is unquestionably Gustav 's chauffeur , and the range of possible referents or entities for mention is not further reduced when we come to the word sanest . |