Example sentences of "when [noun prp] [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it was a shock when Middlesbrough announced the former Croydon , Carshalton and Sutton United player as their manager . |
| 2 | The situation seemed so threatening that Tottenham formed a 10-man wall but Wilson shot wide when Slawson tapped the free kick to him . |
| 3 | When Morse opened the ramshackle gate to number 97 , his mind was anticipating a potentially most interesting encounter . |
| 4 | The salute was repeated , different from the old Nazi one that had been discredited when Germany lost the last war . |
| 5 | A quick rush of hope surged through her , only to be instantly squashed when Isabel remembered the treacherous reality behind the truth . |
| 6 | When Magnus died the Imperial crown passed to Count Leopold of Stirland , and subsequently to his grandson Dieter . |
| 7 | Although negotiations on arms reductions were about to resume in Geneva when Gorbachev assumed the general secretaryship , Cruise and Pershing-II weapons had already been deployed in Western Europe following the NATO ‘ dual track ’ decision of 1979 ( this was itself represented as a response to the Soviet decision to replace its ageing SS-4 and -5 missiles in Eastern Europe with more modern SS-20s ) . |
| 8 | When Napoleon wrested the Slovene lands and Dalmatia from Austria , and established the Illyrian Provinces in 1809 , France began to take major interest in Balkan affairs . |
| 9 | At the time of the Arab invasion in 639 the population has been estimated at between 20 and 30 million , but when Napoleon invaded the decaying Ottoman Egypt in 1798 it had been reduced to some two and a half million . |
| 10 | It was unfair that Rosa appeared to others to stumble through the day with her heavy clumsiness when Cati knew the brilliant forkings of her sister 's spirit in intimacy , the bright patterns she could weave out of the darkness , that made her something rare and starry . |
| 11 | When David led the little group out onto the street , where he quickly hailed a Hansom cab , Cissie had linked arms with Beth , and was walking tall and proud like a ‘ young lady ’ should . |
| 12 | They were also together when Faldo won the 1989 World Match-play Championship at Wentworth . |
| 13 | When Stein studied the Cristofori-style action in the pianos of Johann Heinrich Silbermann , the check was no longer incorporated in the design . |
| 14 | He captained the England XV in five matches in 1892 , 1893 , and 1895 , and as an indefatigable forward was largely responsible for success against Ireland , Scotland , and Wales in 1891–2 , when England won the triple crown . |
| 15 | When England won the last Test of 1973–4 the teams had met only twice in one-day internationals . |
| 16 | I 'm sure this one was around when Moses parted the red sea ( sarcastic , moi ? ) . |
| 17 | The goalkeeper lay injured following a collision with a team-mate when Mikhailichenko gathered the loose ball on the byeline and squared it to Hateley for a goal easier come by for Rangers than had seemed possible in the early stages of the match . |
| 18 | When Camille entered the open-plan area that was Barbs 's kitchen and dining-room , she realized she was still holding Barbs 's handbag , and she put it on the table with a swift , rejecting movement as though it was hot or unclean . |
| 19 | When Kepler refined the Copernican system , he broke with centuries of tradition in suggesting that the planets moved in ellipses , not in circles . |
| 20 | When Gilroy explained the commercial necessities of having to recast , and offered him the job of understudy and assistant stage manager , he stormed out of the theatre in a rage . |
| 21 | When SBUs reach the last phase of their life-cycle ( irrespective of whether a cost-leadership or differentiated-product strategy is being employed ) , there are still further options available which will need to be understood by the accountant in order to ensure that all options are considered and relevant financial profiles selected . |
| 22 | Ptah was an important god from the First Dynasty , when Memphis became the administrative capital of Egypt . |
| 23 | Certainly , when Yeats chaired the Irish Senate committee that commissioned the Irish coinage ( so wonderfully handsome as it turned out to be ) , it was photographs of Sicilian Greek coins that went out to prospective designers to show them what the committee had in mind . |
| 24 | The Book of Kings tells the story of the widow 's cruse when Elijah promised the poor widow a never-ending supply of oil . |
| 25 | ‘ When Johann opens the front door , ’ I said , ‘ Sapt and his men will run into the castle and hold the men who are sleeping there . |
| 26 | I was among her escort to Bristol when Stephen made the idiotic mistake of allowing the Countess to join her half-brother . ’ |
| 27 | When Stephen returned the following day , the news was broken to him in the stable block by the groom who took his horse . |
| 28 | However , all this was changed when Einstein formulated the general theory of relativity in 1915 . |
| 29 | He took over when Beattie resigned the following season . |
| 30 | Ashton has also found a delicious use for the ordinary class-room petits battements sur le cou depied when Cinderella parodies the Ugly Sisters ' dancing lesson . |