Example sentences of "when [pron] [was/were] [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was lingering near the assembled bottles , wondering who on earth could have brought the Bourgueil , when I was joined by the man I had seen stepping out of the BMW . |
| 2 | When I was sitting by the pool on holiday , I met a four-year-old girl called Amy . |
| 3 | So when I was confronted by the station warrant officer ( SWO ) in my very best turnout I was somewhat aggrieved at his tirade about my flouting regulations when a strange apparition approached , an airman acting as the station Postman . |
| 4 | She peered through the glass door , half inclined to look for Dana in the bigger stores , when she was riveted by the sight of her twin appearing from behind a curtain . |
| 5 | She had just begun to worry about the honeymoon , finding an image of Hywel in Benidorm particularly elusive , when she was summoned by the doctor . |
| 6 | Ana Eugenia was only 18 years old when she was kidnapped by the National Police : |
| 7 | The work in setting up sanctuaries for threatened chimps began when she was asked by the American ambassador in Burundi to design a conservation plan . |
| 8 | Yet , when she was asked by the coroner to step into the witness-box , she seemed to take a grip on herself , drawing on some inner strength . |
| 9 | As she progressed , she began to learn how to correct her balance when she was displaced by the physiotherapist , so that her confidence in her balance on her left leg was increased . |
| 10 | When she was rescued by the local authorities and given her present welfare flat , she asked that her address be kept a secret . |
| 11 | On a personal note , you will recall that Betsan and I first met you when we were employed by the National Trust at Plas y Rhiw . |
| 12 | They were heavily defeated ; Bulgarian soldiers were about to enter Belgrade when they were halted by the threat of Austrian intervention . |
| 13 | Mainly what the sect vans were carrying when they were raided by the police . |
| 14 | Stewart was in charge on two of the occasions when they were reported by the umpires . |
| 15 | But the troops were forced onto the defensive when they were caught by the fire of several crack Panzer regiments , which had n't been spotted by Allied intelligence . |
| 16 | They claimed that when they were surrounded by the gang they acted in self defence . |
| 17 | In which hotel was Mrs Thatcher staying when it was bombed by the IRA ? |
| 18 | However , the recovery plan 's future , and that of the ruling coalition government , was placed in serious doubt when it was opposed by the Christian Democratic Party ( PDC ) , the holder of the majority of seats in the Legislative Assembly . |
| 19 | When we had all assembled for the first plenary session to approve the agenda , I was all ready with my dissenting speech when it was announced by the Secretary General that the additional items would be included in the agenda if the other matters already there were completed in time to consider additional ones . |
| 20 | When it was announced by the State Department on 17 October that military equipment , including light bombers , was being supplied for the armed forces both of France and of the Associated States , it was a distinction without a difference because in practice it was the French who were in control : even if Bao Dai was insistent that the French officers who were to train the soldiers of the Vietnamese national army should be responsible directly to him rather than to the French High Command . |
| 21 | The Vatican and the French government both made efforts during June to bring together the Hrawi regime and the rival regime of Gen. Michel Aoun , the former Army C.-in-C. and self-declared interim Premier of Lebanon , who had vehemently opposed the Taif Accord when it was accepted by the majority of Lebanese MPs in October 1989 . |
| 22 | The Gaelic Knight was being followed by another yacht , Tuhula , when it was swamped by the heavy seas and torrential rain . |
| 23 | As we saw , in the early phase of psychoanalysis , before World War One , when it was dominated by the view of Freud and in the eighteen nineties , and when psychoanalysis was mainly id analysis , and concerned with the unconscious , Freud took the view of anxiety as a pathological transformation of the libido . |
| 24 | You did n't fall for that ludicrous theory — advanced , if I recall correctly , in the Sunday Telegraph — that Punch died when it was deserted by the nation 's finest cartoonists ? |
| 25 | There was support notably from hard-line leaders in Iran for the proposition that opposing US forces was akin to a holy war , a view given prominence when it was articulated by the Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei in a Sept. 12 broadcast , although Iran continued to affirm its backing for UN sanctions . |
| 26 | Therefore a court will ask the question was the restraint reasonable when it was entered by the parties ? |
| 27 | It is pensioners in particular who paid for British Telecom when it was owned by the State their taxes ensured that the telephone system in the U K , it became amongst the best in the world . |
| 28 | Michael Heseltine , the self-styled interventionist , was , at one stage , responsible for that company when it was owned by the state . |
| 29 | In the years 1815–27 , when he was hated by the young Romantic poets for his apostasy , it is only fair to point out that many quite reasonable people were at panic stations because of incipient popular unrest . |
| 30 | This was precisely the approach Pearce adopted when he was asked by the Conservative Government to become chairman of British Aerospace in 1980 to prepare it for privatisation . |