Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] the [noun] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rosie was resting on the couch when Shelley went in . |
| 2 | Its defence of justification was withdrawn at the trial when its alleged " highly-placed sources " went to ground . |
| 3 | Daylight was filtering through the shutters when Luce awoke to instant and complete remembrance . |
| 4 | A dramatic fillip was given to the cause when three major CPP Ashanti leaders announced their adherence in January 1955 : these were Joe Appiah , R.R. Amponsah and Victor Owusu , while from the coast Kurankyi Taylor ( expelled from CPP in 1952 ) also declared for the NLM . |
| 5 | One day she was hanging around the shop when Nick Kent followed her in , angry . |
| 6 | One nanny was sacked on the spot when Diana 's mother discovered that her employee was lacing her elder daughters ' food with laxatives as a punishment . |
| 7 | The new plan was explained to the players when they gathered in Luton before flying out to Spain . |
| 8 | Now , she was walking across the room when she farted , and her father said , ‘ Did you whisper ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ The girl was walking on the pavement when the bus crashed into railings damaging them badly and the side of the bus hit her a glancing blow , ’ he said . |
| 10 | She was walking into the hotel when she heard his car start up . |
| 11 | A Soho nightclub manager , Mr Peter Goodchild , 56 , was walking past the flats when the device exploded 20 yards behind him . |
| 12 | Gwendoline Thornton was walking past the junction when with her husband . |
| 13 | A DPP lawyer said a female member of staff was walking through the shop when she felt something hard stuck in her side . |
| 14 | Nieto was walking alongside the touchline when a ball kicked from within the field hit him in the face , breaking his glasses . |
| 15 | She was walking in the park when some youngsters squirted a water-pistol in her face and taunted her and her guide dog , Judd . |
| 16 | Well not not when he got pulled but he I was sat in the backseat when he was pissy . |
| 17 | A national " mass of reconciliation " was proposed for Aug. 15 by the " revolutionary Peronism " faction of the ruling Justicialist Party , including the remnants of the Montoneros , who called for reconciliation with the armed forces and an amnesty for their imprisoned leader Mario Firmenich [ see p. 35561 ] ; this mass was to have been attended both by former Montonero guerrillas and by military officers from the dirty war , but was cancelled by the Church when it became clear that certain officers were using it to support their demand for an amnesty . |
| 18 | Radio Cleveland broadcaster Alan Wright said he was overwhelmed by the response when he raised the case of a Redcar man who had to call the police to get rid of Sure Style salesmen . |
| 19 | I was just going to look through it to find out what was happening in the passage when I saw a fishy eye fixed in the centre . |
| 20 | One morning I was driving along the road when I saw an old man frantically waving a walking stick at passing cars . |
| 21 | The boy was driving like the wind when suddenly we hit something . |
| 22 | Eye witness Richard was driving behind the coach when the accident happened . |
| 23 | Solidarity with the Spanish Republic undermined the pacifism of many on the left , and Russell knew that he was swimming against the tide when he urged the friends of peace to ‘ avoid the crusading spirit … in relation to Spain , on the grounds that even the best cause is not worth a great war . ’ |
| 24 | Matt was peeing in the river when one of the sparks came up and told him it was n't a good idea . |
| 25 | She was prepared for the move when it came and followed Claudia Hamilton and the other ladies upstairs . |
| 26 | Initially , in 1947 , Sir Stafford Cripps moved from the Board of Trade to a newly created Ministry of Economic Planning but , after a few months ' existence , this was absorbed into the Treasury when Cripps became Chancellor of the Exchequer . |
| 27 | The use of mutual recognition was accepted by the EC when the " New approach to technical harmonisation " was adopted in 1985 . |
| 28 | Town should have been two or three up … but Ipswich went back in front thanks to a John Wark penalty justice was done near the end when Town won themselves a penalty … and what do you reckon was going through Paul Bodin 's mind … the man who missed the penalty that could have given wales a world cup place was on the spot again … |
| 29 | At one point an elderly woman was looking at the display when the two defendants starting tormenting her . |
| 30 | Well , I 'm not supposed to tell you but he was smoking on the station when we just caught sight of him . |