Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had just checked into the hotel and come down to the sunken terrace when I saw armed men running in a crouched position by the swimming pool . |
| 2 | I 've just realized I have n't either , when I saw that woman crossing the road I thought it was her . |
| 3 | When I saw that woman crossing the road , I thought it was here . |
| 4 | I literally jumped for joy when I heard that key turn in the lock and saw Mum and Mrs Taylor enter with another woman . |
| 5 | It was a warm , spring morning and I was lying in the garden , reflecting on life in general and taking it easy , when I heard this music coming from the top-floor flat where the windows were all open — and there was somebody singing . |
| 6 | When I said that spike went up his trouser leg and shouted and up and at them ! |
| 7 | Planning for the fateful flight started several weeks earlier when I made tentative arrangements to visit a microlight manufacturer at Membury airfield in Berkshire for the review of the Chevron which appears in this issue . |
| 8 | When I spoke great tears fell from the eyes of the grey hound , more and more , heavier and heavier . |
| 9 | ‘ Last monsoon when I needed some musk to rub on a snake-bite , I did n't have to look far . |
| 10 | So I was looking around the Beckenham and Bromley area when I found this place called Haddon Hall which was an amazing property . |
| 11 | You loathed it when you saw other people behaving like this and yet you could no more control it in yourself than you could any other automatic physical reflex . |
| 12 | In fact , you were probably in your adult state when you bought this book to help you decide how to figure out the next stages of your life . |
| 13 | ‘ When you arrived this morning did you see Miss Garland at once ? ’ |
| 14 | She was just about to get back in the car , when she heard another vehicle coming up the hill fast . |
| 15 | Who cared what Anpetuwi meant when she had three tables to clear , four people waving at her , and a growing list of drinks to remember when she got back to the bar ? |
| 16 | But the smile lasted less than a heartbeat and vanished entirely when she saw that fitzAlan continued to watch the small party until it disappeared from view . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , but you do n't want to … ’ she began to deny , but her voice faded when she saw one eyebrow ascend — as if it was unheard-of for anyone to tell him what he wanted or did not want to do . |
| 18 | ‘ A guest , Colonel Merrick 's wife , was in one of the rooms upstairs brushing her hair by candlelight in front of the mirror , when she saw this face peering over her shoulder . |
| 19 | But when she saw these things written they seemed , and were , stale , deja-vu , derivative . |
| 20 | On the second occasion she was hit in the face when she found two men rifling her home . |
| 21 | And when she tried several times to pin him down at the office , invariably , as if he were telepathically aware of her intentions , he was elsewhere . |
| 22 | So when we received persistent telephone calls from our clients asking whether we had heard that all was not well with the horse , we had to take a view . |
| 23 | We were as glad as anything when we saw this rain coming down . |
| 24 | Only when we had that row did I realize how much the wish to please her had come into it . |
| 25 | ‘ When we had n't seen her at the grave for a while we thought she must have gone away and so when we had any flowers left over we put them on Brian 's grave , ’ said Mary . |
| 26 | Not surprisingly , when we asked deaf people to examine videotapes of teachers using simultaneous communication , their rating of effectiveness closely matched their rating of the teachers ' use of facial expression . |
| 27 | But when we phoned her , when we made those calls saying , ‘ We know , ’ it was n't just the infidelity that Lori worried about . |
| 28 | Then later , couple of months later when we found that list checked that we understood what the list meant and we presented that list to our church meeting . |
| 29 | probably as we do n't add any real value when we did little jobs like the cabling you know |
| 30 | However , when we decided this morning to change the whole way of presentation , yeah , I was just getting along to that . |