Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] when a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's worked bloody hard to get Tranmere where they are , yet do you ever here John King mentioned when a big job comes along ? |
| 2 | An important limitation on the availability of judicial review arose when a senior nursing officer employed by a Health Authority was dismissed for misconduct . |
| 3 | THE LATEST controversy over political interference in research surfaced when a Sunday newspaper reported that the Prime Minister had personally pulled the plug on Department of Health funding for a survey of sexual habits to help scientists to predict the spread of Aids . |
| 4 | His big break came when a Rolling Stone critic gave him a rave write-up and major record companies fell over themselves in an attempt to be the first to sign this new blues sensation . |
| 5 | His big break came when a neighbour in Herne Hill pointed out an advertisement in the Daily Telegraph ; the English Opera Group wanted a boy soprano to star in Benjamin Britten 's opera The Turn of the Screw . |
| 6 | Violence flared when a car ploughed into a crowd after the West Indian Carnival in Leeds , injuring six people . |
| 7 | On May 1 a Croat was shot dead in the mainly Serbian village of Brsadin ( near Vukovar ) , and on May 2 shooting began when a group of Croatian policemen entered Borovo Selo near Vukovar to look for three missing colleagues . |
| 8 | On Oct. 2 , 128 people including 37 foreigners died when a Boeing 737 belonging to the Civil Aviation Administration hit two other aircraft on the runway during an emergency landing at Baiyun airport in Guangdong after two hijackers had ordered the crew to fly to Taiwan . |
| 9 | She has never been romantically linked with anyone and the biggest revelation to emerge in recent times came when a photographer spotted her shopping in Kensington last week and discovered she ate Kellogg 's Special K for breakfast . |
| 10 | It looked like any other frugal coffin , but had an ingenious device — two doors at the bottom opened when a lever was pulled . |
| 11 | The first taste of combat came when a light armoured detachment went into action under Army Group Vistula . |
| 12 | The accident happened when a lorry jack-knifed and rolled on top of a car . |
| 13 | The affair took a sinister turn four months after the investigation began when a young American banker , due to appear in court on fraud charges connected with offshore banking transactions , died in mysterious circumstances . |
| 14 | The drama began when a neighbour was awakened by the dead man 's wife . |
| 15 | Drama began when a masked actor was introduced to represent the god ( in the sixth century , from which time ) the Dionysiac experience of visionary transformation into satyrs was represented artistically . |
| 16 | Two air crashes have killed twenty American servicemen in the Gulf , two air force pilots died when a pair of Phantom jets collided , the wreckage of two helicopters has been found . |
| 17 | The story began when a young man attended a party in Mournacre Hill , a suburb of Leicester . |
| 18 | Her problems began when a chemical drum in the back of her van sprang a leak , and filled the van with fumes . |
| 19 | The WWF/Exxon Chemical relationship began when a group of trainee managers approached WWF to ask whether they could become directly involved with a WWF project . |
| 20 | Problems started when a developer for the hotel could not be found , and Mr Graham was called in at the behest of the main creditor , the Bank of Scotland . |
| 21 | The romps started when a 16-year-old went to Wendy 's house at Winthorpe , near Skegness , Lincs , to borrow tools to repair his motorbike . |
| 22 | Trouble began when a mistaken claim by a junior Minister persuaded many people to stop buying eggs . |
| 23 | The fiasco started when a letter was delivered to his home in Barnet , Herts , earlier this week informing him the £9.41 cheque would not be honoured . |
| 24 | A 36-year-old woman died when a tornado swept through her mobile home . |
| 25 | More than 2,000 people died when a quake hit the nearby island of Flores last week . |
| 26 | In 1972 at Buffalo Creek , West Virginia , 125 people were killed when a carelessly maintained dam burst ( Stern 1976 : 3 ) and at Willow Island , West Virginia , fifty-one people died when a cooling tower collapsed as a result of safety violations ( Kennedy 1978 ) . |
| 27 | At least 140 people died when a ferry boat , the Moby Prince , collided with an oil tanker in thick fog off Livorno on the night of April 10 . |
| 28 | At least 22 people died when a bomb attached to a bicycle exploded on Sept. 1 in a crowded marketplace in Sainthamarathu , a village in the east populated mainly by Moslems . |
| 29 | Seventeen people died when a Wellington bomber crashed into houses during a training exercise |
| 30 | Seventeen people died when a Wellington bomber crashed into houses during a training exercise |