Example sentences of "when [noun prp] [verb] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first , when Perdita held out the bucket , she was too frozen with fear to drink . |
| 2 | ‘ Thank God , ’ she said , when Kelly picked up the phone . |
| 3 | Her moment of complete despair had come when Doyle switched on the radio and sat down to wait and see what happened . |
| 4 | But in a sense I mean I can erm I mean I agree with everything you 've said , erm but er when Murdoch took over the Sun I mean the Sun was selling , at one point was selling about four million copies which is |
| 5 | Shah was setting in motion a chain of events which would lead to the bitter Wapping strike , when Murdoch took on the print unions — previously assumed to be invincible — and won . |
| 6 | When Lineker threw down the captain 's arm band in disgust , the rift between the pair first became public . |
| 7 | On the subject of boyfriends Shiona was notoriously sensitive , and doubly so , it appeared , when Jake brought up the subject . |
| 8 | And six days later she hit the jackpot … when Bonnie paid back the cash . |
| 9 | When Harry smeared away the blood from his face and opened his eyes again it was to see Isambard standing with one foot flattening the whip to the floor , and the bronze lantern of his face blazing with such an intensity of dangerous , silent fury that even Harry , who was no longer threatened , shrank with sympathetic dread . |
| 10 | The introduction makes a perfunctory bow to linguistics when Genette puts forward the hypothesis that narrative may be regarded as ‘ the development — monstrous , if you will — given to a verbal form , in the grammatical sense of the term : the expansion of a verb … |
| 11 | When Quinn put down the phone , it was the first time Sam had seen him appear visibly shaken . |
| 12 | The six-foot-six-inch England forward returned to America after helping the Mohawks gain a place in the play-offs with a victory at Cardiff in their last league game of the season before also being outstanding in the first game of the play offs when Middlesborugh pulled off the shock of the season by winning at second division league winners Oldham . |
| 13 | When Jaq turned up the gain on his sensor , static flooded it . |
| 14 | Ann looked up and forced a smile ; and when Jennifer glanced up the table at the master of the house , Harry replied with a wink . |
| 15 | He also appeared to distance himself from the BR route for the Channel tunnel link , saying that when BR brought forward the Bill for its preferred route through Kent , it would be ‘ for Parliament to settle the way forward ’ . |
| 16 | This time it was a police sergeant , and when Joe went upstairs the sergeant said : " I am looking for Wg Cdr Mahaddie , and I am also looking for one of my constables , " Joe foolishly replied : We might have a wing commander here but we do n't have your constable . " |
| 17 | Coleby seemed disappointed when Peter turned down the offer of another bottle of wine . |
| 18 | If the Foreign Secretary is still here — which I doubt — when Britain takes over the presidency of the European Community , will he insist that some race legislation is passed in the European Community to protect black and minority ethnic citizens when they move around Europe ? |
| 19 | In the 68th minute the huge Musselburgh contingent in the crowd went wild when McMillan broke up the blindside and sent winger Craig Ramsey racing in for a try to put his side 14-10 up . |
| 20 | The political anger of ‘ On Civil Disobedience ’ and ‘ Walden ’ has burned itself out ; only one remark still rings with it , when Thoreau considers how the cherry disperses itself by having its stones swallowed : ‘ It is only princes who can afford to have their cherry puddings stoned , and so make their lives more completely luxurious and useless . ’ |
| 21 | When Galileo inquired how the presence of the invisible substance might be detected , the reply was that there was no way in which it could be detected . |
| 22 | When Jean-Claude took over the space for his piano , he found himself lugging the trunk into the light . |
| 23 | Richardson then made more ground and , when Cusworth spun out the scoring pass , England 's Rory Underwood obliged with a typical one-handed touchdown . |
| 24 | Although Ice Cube 's role as an agent provocateur is unequivocal , his future as a bankable revolutionary must be open to doubt , despite his assertion on the liner notes of ‘ Predator ’ : ‘ I will become an African-American when America gives up the oppression of my people . ’ |
| 25 | When Sigarup climbed up the ladder , straining under the weight of his basket , the dog sidled over to him with a low unearthly grunt of pleasure . |
| 26 | When Hitler took over the rump of Czechoslovakia in March 1939 , Chamberlain was finally persuaded to adopt a stance of resistance to further German expansion , and to open negotiations for a Russian alliance . |
| 27 | They had all been there when Moran read out the telegram . |
| 28 | When Julie took on the role as Ruth in The Life And Loves Of A She-Devil , it could have destroyed her confidence in her femininity for ever . |
| 29 | Even when Dexter took over the questioning , Marek said he remembered nothing about the car or its driver . |