Example sentences of "when [noun pl] [vb past] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 It was inevitable that , when rerehearsals started on the Monday , the centre of attention should be Michael Banks .
2 When Yerkes died in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel his empire was taken over by the son of a Derbyshire coach-maker , Albert Henry Stanley .
3 WHEN police swooped on the Pan Africanist Congress on May 25th , arresting 70 of its members , including seven members of its national executive , the man who suffered most embarrassment was Roelf Meyer .
4 Three months Doña Ximena had been in Valencia , when tidings came to the Cid from beyond sea , that King Yucef , the son of the Miramamolin , who dwelt in Morocco , was coming to lay siege unto Valencia with fifty thousand men .
5 When MPs returned to the Commons , it soon became clear that all was not well , as Robert Sanders noted :
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