Example sentences of "when [noun] [verb] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Jessica poked her in the ribs and swore they were coming for them , she hardly raised her head . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He did not know of it , a thought which after a few minutes occurred to Wainfleet when Wickham encountered him in the pub . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | When dissatisfaction identifies itself in the form of a complaint , this necessary condition for long-term survival is clearly not being met . |
| 6 | When catastrophe hit her in the shape of the Town & County Bank stopping payment , she was ruined . |
| 7 | Improvements in the general conditions of blacks had taken place between Johnson 's era , when white supremacist groups like the Ku Klux Klan articulated deeply-held sentiments , when at least three hundred and fifty blacks were illegally lynched and mixed marriages were forbidden , and that of Ali , when conflict manifested itself in the Watts riots and radicalism came in the form of the black power movements . |
| 8 | But you ca n't argue with the propulsion of ‘ No Hard Shoulder To Cry On ’ , the inventiveness of ‘ Slow Rider ’ and the odyssey inscribed in ‘ Safe Surfer ’ ( though you do worry when Cope loses it in the mid-section ) . |
| 9 | When Marx tells us in the Communist Manifesto that ‘ all history is the history of class struggles ’ , he is claiming that all conflict and change in societies can ultimately be traced back to the underlying class conflict , based on the opposing class interests arising from exploitation . |
| 10 | We had it organised so that when people contacted us in the first instance , we gave them a menu of mods that we would do , depending on what the customer wanted . |
| 11 | When people ask us in the street what it is . |
| 12 | And when Changez embraced him in the street I thought I heard Anwar 's bones cracking . |
| 13 | 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 . |