Example sentences of "when [noun prp] [vb past] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though the latter was at this time a much celebrated amateur artist he was surprised , on arriving , when Minton detached himself from the crowd he was talking with in order to cross the room and greet Cornish by name . |
| 2 | Mr Foggerty was agreeably surprised , but when Nutty reminded him of the standard required , he relapsed into grim gloom and stood on the side of the bath in his white T-shirt and jeans looking at his watch and saying , ‘ I ca n't spare the time to do this three nights a week for the next year , which is what is required . |
| 3 | When Jessica poked her in the ribs and swore they were coming for them , she hardly raised her head . |
| 4 | The bleeding persisted and Jean was very weak when Jim left her at the maternity ward . |
| 5 | The pyramids were already 2,000 years old when Herodotus visited them in the middle of the fifth century BC , but he found the Egyptians still told tales of misery about their construction , the horrors suffered by the populace . |
| 6 | When Strawalde freed himself of the constraints of narrative painting he became the father of sensuous abstract art in the DDR and now , in his sixties , is finally receiving the international recognition which was denied him before the Wall came down . |
| 7 | When Arafat satisfied himself of the identity of the three Palestinians responsible , they were sent down to Tyre ‘ in disgrace ’ . |
| 8 | When Andy invited me to the launch of the The Gadget Shop I naively assumed it would be in the shop itself , in Covent Garden . |
| 9 | Brownie Owl was very sympathetic when Penny told her about the lost budgie . |
| 10 | He did not know of it , a thought which after a few minutes occurred to Wainfleet when Wickham encountered him in the pub . |
| 11 | When Ruth followed her into the kitchen , she looked around ; like the rest of the house , it was clean but very sparsely furnished . |
| 12 | He was so involved in these thoughts that when the school finally loomed into view he failed to notice it and only when Tock poked him in the side did he look up and see the gigantic sight . |
| 13 | ‘ Did you see Tamar 's face when Stephen told us about the groom — Davis , was it ? ’ |
| 14 | She was sifting desultorily through her work schedule when Adam rang her from the office . |
| 15 | Though she still knew she was obscurely to blame , that when Tommaso lifted her onto the bar stool with his big hands which almost met under her rib cage , the current was live in the air around them , and Rosa would not have liked it . |
| 16 | When Defries pulled herself over the projecting fragments of glass and into the cockpit , Daak was still half out of the pilot 's seat , staring at Ace 's back and her wind-whipped hair . |
| 17 | The political influence of the other major radical figure , Hojatolislam Ali Akbar Mohtashemi , was drastically reduced when Rafsanjani removed him from the post of Interior Minister in his Cabinet reshuffle of August 1989 , following his election as President [ see pp. 36859-60 ] . |
| 18 | An audience never failed to gasp and cry out when Gabriel flung himself into the flying harness , arms outstretched and billowing with silk . |
| 19 | When Coleman took her to the hospital for a routine scan , he said jocularly : |
| 20 | ‘ When Peter invited me to the club I knew that Dusty was retiring and that there would be a place up for grabs . |
| 21 | He was sure that , even though he and Ari got along well , she must have been disappointed when Leila chose him for the job . |
| 22 | And when Changez embraced him in the street I thought I heard Anwar 's bones cracking . |
| 23 | Even when Guy left her for the few seconds it took him to remove his own clothes , his murmured words of love and praise still warmed and reassured her . |
| 24 | When Manfro detached himself from the other men and came to walk by her side , Topaz glared at him . |
| 25 | She smiled when Susan kissed her on the cheek . |
| 26 | Moses ' staff changed into a snake when Aaron threw it to the ground before Pharaoh . |
| 27 | She smiled vaguely when Myra asked her about the dinner and walked out of the room into Roman 's waiting arms . |
| 28 | Meg was shocked when Carolyn told her about the baby . |
| 29 | Only nine days ago he lost the Macartney and Dowie Classic when Douglas defeated him in the semi-final , and the loss of another title today could be extremely damaging to morale . |
| 30 | Duncan had asked , when Myeloski told him of the strange situation in which they had found Leeming . |