Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb past] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When everyone had gathered in the garden , Sergeant joined them and said , ‘ Welcome , everyone ! ’ |
| 2 | " We 've a lot of work to do tonight , " said the Collector when everyone had assembled in the hall . |
| 3 | ‘ I was just coming home when I got hit in the engine . |
| 4 | You caught me when I staged dived and looked after me when I got knocked in the eye . |
| 5 | Well that 's what Breeze am keep telling me when I got to work in the morning it 's about the time of recession people should advertise more not less that maybe but the hard financial situation of the theatre finds itself in is to find that sort of money is very difficult at the moment . |
| 6 | Water came from the taps and sat in an unnerving basin shape : the blue plastic failed to dematerialise from the world where I had been a grateful and temporary guest since the moment five years ago when I had vouchsafed in the sight of the God of men Ido . |
| 7 | When I went to live in the attic , Jean-Claude still took it for granted that the wood he needed for the stove should be filched from the railway sidings . |
| 8 | When I started refereeing in the 1960s the props ' attitude was : ‘ I may go backwards in a scrummage , but I will never go down ’ . |
| 9 | When I attempted to feed in the information on Wayne Campbell the computer exploded . |
| 10 | Then I wanted to join the army and that was another two months of warfare , and then when I wanted to go in the police force my parents said , ‘ You 're trying to tell us something about your attitude to school , are n't you ? ’ |
| 11 | She had already thrown yesterday 's damp tea-leaves on to the parlour carpet , and when she had finished in the surgery would take a small , hard hand-brush and , down on her knees yet again , would painstakingly sweep them all up into a dustpan , to remove the previous day 's dirt and dust , Miss Mates said , and purify the air . |
| 12 | Léonie chose to use the basket Madeleine carried when she went shopping in the village . |
| 13 | As soon they come back I reckon it was conceived when they went skiing in the week . |
| 14 | Which would have been very attractive , unobtrusive and none of us would have been against it , and when they came to put in the application to convert it , making it a meter wider and turn that into an extra bedroom or whatever was , we said that there was no parking , and we said what would happen and East Devon went ahead and approved that , and exactly in everything we 've said which was recorded in this council |
| 15 | When they had bathed in the old-fashioned bathroom , they climbed naked into the ancient four-poster bed that was surprisingly very comfortable . |
| 16 | Old acquaintances would cut them dead when they chanced to meet in the Covered Market . |
| 17 | We retired to our chamber , made ourselves as comfortable as our bleak quarters would allow , and later joined the rest of the household when they gathered to dine in the small hall . |
| 18 | Another Saturday came round with no prospect of a night off when it began to rain in the afternoon . |
| 19 | Years ago Moran loaned McQuaid money when he had started in the cattle business but now McQuaid was the richer and more powerful man and they saw little of one another . |
| 20 | Jock laughingly informed me that when he had arrived in the area there had been a short quiet spell . |
| 21 | The early career of the great missionary John Wesley showed the problems facing Anglicans in an area without bishops ; when he went to preach in the newly-launched colony of Georgia from 1735 to 1737 the Church of England made no provision for his activity , and he went out attached to the Moravians . |
| 22 | It was the same husky voice that Pascoe had heard when he 'd sat in the empty house at the table laid for one . |
| 23 | Nuttall 's happening did n't go as expected , when he became jammed in the bath in which he had placed himself , and Latham fainted while trying to drag him out . |
| 24 | His friend Max Jacob was just about to be received into the Catholic church when he became entangled in the affairs of Modi and Beatrice . |
| 25 | Mr McTear , a telecommunications worker and former 60-a-day smoker , is suing for an unspecified sum of damages , arguing that when he started smoking in the 1960s there were no health warnings on packets and that by the time they appeared he was addicted . |
| 26 | When he did rise in the chair it was slowly and grudgingly and he followed McQuaid out into the stone hallway as if he were finding it difficult to walk or move . |
| 27 | Courier 's only glimmer of hope came when he broke serve in the first game of the third set , but it was only a momentary lapse of concentration by the German , who so likes to win in front of his countrymen and women , as he broke back in the next game . |
| 28 | Nathan was a simpleton : fat-faced and cretinous , with a drooly mouth and a silly smile , and when he tried to join in the hymns he made a terrible braying noise because he was turning into a man much too early . |