Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb past] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crawled until I could see the arrow only because it was pale against the bark , and knew I was already further away than when I 'd taken the last bearing . |
| 2 | When I 'd finished the first prayer and turned to face him , I saw that he was kneeling . |
| 3 | When I got to know the two men well I got a visual image of these judgements — Lenin , solid and stocky , advancing at an even pace , and the slight figure of Bukharin galloping off in front , but always needing to feel Lenin 's presence . |
| 4 | Twenty years ago I walked along it , half hoping to find a lost domain , and when I had crossed the small brick bridge over a stream I suddenly saw Wood Dalling Hall sailing like some proud ship above hawthorn hedges and ancient meadows , as beautiful and as Norfolk as could be . |
| 5 | When I had eaten the first course of cabbage , and the second of meat pudding , potato and carrots , I poured cold water into my used billycan and put it on the lighted stove . |
| 6 | When I had got the whole lot home I had a think . |
| 7 | Quite evidently when I had performed the various therapies I had n't performed them properly . |
| 8 | She brained me when I tried to reboot the neural net . ’ |
| 9 | She brained me when I tried to reboot the neural net ! ’ |
| 10 | I was working in a heart clinic off Harley Street as a receptionist and delivery boy when I decided to join the French Foreign Legion . |
| 11 | When I did see the full list I was very scornful — speaking in public ? making a recording ? conducting a committee ? — ME ? |
| 12 | I found that the edge of my left hand was cramped up when I attempted to negotiate the upper frets and any urgency in so doing was rewarded by a considerable jolt as my hand hit the buffers , so to speak . |
| 13 | There was no answer to her knocking , so , when she had balanced the buttered scone on the parcel of bread-soda , she opened the door and put her head round the jamb . |
| 14 | Time was , he remembered , when she had attended the Greek Orthodox Church , where he also had gone when small , but its splendour had palled when she had realized that more fashionable people belonged to the United Church . |
| 15 | As clearly as she recalled that spring day so long ago when she had received the small wound . |
| 16 | She had learned when she had held the first costume up against her , that her mother had been small , hardly , it seemed , an inch or two taller than Ellie was now . |
| 17 | She had only seen him when she had climbed the wooden steps up to the promenade : he was out of sight of the kiosk , waiting across the road , almost hidden in the dark cave of an amusement arcade . |
| 18 | He had been dismayed , almost horrified , when she had opened the front door a crack and displayed herself pale and ill and obviously in need of cherishing . |
| 19 | When she had finished the entire slice , and he had refilled her cup , he said , ‘ There is a way out of this , you know . |
| 20 | Mandy had just left out one crucial detail when she had described the young woman who had arrived from England . |
| 21 | He had been delighted to the point of euphoria when she had bought the Victorian clothes . |
| 22 | And when she 'd learned the full amount of the financial sums involved Laura had n't felt too cheerful either . |
| 23 | When she 'd finished the second glass , he was still there , and still trying to catch her eye . |
| 24 | Of course , she had n't been joking when she 'd told the English girl that a marriage between two highly charged Leos could be an explosive situation . |
| 25 | And when she 'd got the same blank response to two further letters she 'd sent him , Laura had sorrowfully realised that her marriage was indeed at an end . |
| 26 | She fired the gun at the raiders from just four feet away when she went to help the threatened landlord at Knebworth , Hertfordshire , in December 1990 . |
| 27 | When she failed to respond the French cutter opened fire with her bow chaser , hitting the superstructure of Sea Rover which by then was obviously making for the English coast . |
| 28 | When she finished selling the remaining tickets Sally looked around for them , realised what had happened and went back to sit on one of the hard upright chairs which lined the hall . |
| 29 | Her family is convinced Mandy 's weight problems started when she started taking the contraceptive pill at 14 after the Rolling Stone seduced her in a Paris hotel.They stayed silent for eight years but were angered this week by 56-year-old Bill 's decision to go public . |
| 30 | Her back shrieked , and when she bent to serve the late-night customers with their breath of beer and Cinzano , her head swam . |