Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as well you agreed to go quietly when Kenneth suggested it was time you went to bed ; though apparently he and Hamish practically had to carry you upstairs , and the whole way up you were muttering something vile about Lewis being thrown naked into a tub of starving Elephant Leeches . ’ |
| 2 | Mother went to visit her relatives in Hungary , near Szeged , and got caught there when the Russians advanced . |
| 3 | He is perching on the railway , six stops down the line , with a stationmaster he got to know somehow when he was on the town in Petersburg — the Dostoevsky no-home at its most stripped and strange in this novel of aimless movement . |
| 4 | He stopped climbing only when he was too exhausted to climb any higher . |
| 5 | Miki 's sitting in the corridor of the bus trying to reassemble her shorts , which somebody tried to pull apart when she stage-dived during Ministry 's set . |
| 6 | The teenager tried to run away when the youths approached him but they punched him in the face and pushed him to the ground . |
| 7 | She put four mince pies in a little basket she 'd decorated earlier when she made the other table decorations , put on her coat and was out of the back door in a flash . |
| 8 | They soon learned not to talk when just a look would do , and even when separated , each seemed to know instinctively when the other was in trouble . |
| 9 | Evidence seemed to harden somewhat when a Glamorgan farmer went to the aid of a ditched van one dark night . |
| 10 | And er I suppose he he 'd gone there when he was about thirteen fourteen and er he came from a family from Where was it . |
| 11 | As the figure shows , the subjects came to respond only when the tone was on , but they formed the discrimination less rapidly than control subjects that had not received pre-exposure . |
| 12 | In the end I thought it was a good job that I 'd cut her dead because I began to pick up the gossip about her and found out that she 'd left home when she did because she was pregnant and had had a baby . |
| 13 | Lucenzo looked up as if he 'd only just realised she 'd slipped away , and seemed taken aback when he saw her . |
| 14 | Of course you can well I knew of a girl who married I would n't say she 'd married well when she started out but her husband was enterprising e eventually got himself quite a good job at the at people who print the bank notes so so that they they started off in a prefab and they ended up with a new four bedroom bungalow with central heating at Athorpe Roding . |
| 15 | They 'd cruised past when they arrived that afternoon , just after four o'clock , and seen Tommy standing on the doorstep . |
| 16 | Traditional Hawaiian society only began to fall apart when the godhead became detached from the environment : when Captain Cook arrived and ushered in a foreign idol , ubiquitous , omnipotent , immortal , but disembodied , absent , invisible . |
| 17 | Cumbria threatened to fall apart when they lost their hooker , Derek Dougan , just before the interval , as Lancashire 's Mark Hesketh finished off a surge by Shaun Gallagher , initiated by the lively Dewi Morris , to give Lancashire a 9-0 lead at the break . |
| 18 | She began to hide away when State banquets were in progress . |
| 19 | Moi children who had heard the noise of their approach came running helter-skelter to surround them and began shouting excitedly when they saw the dead deer . |
| 20 | ‘ We began to drift apart when we were posted to different ships . |
| 21 | The men began moving restlessly when the young gunman raised his hand . |
| 22 | Bill Murray spent £50,000 on setting up his restaurant at Telegraph Hill , near Exeter , Devon , two years ago but said the business started to go downhill when he handed it over to a manager to run . |
| 23 | The Stranglers started going downhill when they took to releasing piss-poor cover versions as singles . |
| 24 | Traffic started moving again when the van was pronounced safe . |
| 25 | Even the Diet did not immediately call for offensive action against Russia , but it decided to do so when the tsar refused to negotiate on the basis of anything less than abject Polish submission . |
| 26 | Ever the pragmatist , he decided to return there when he recently turned 30 . |
| 27 | These rubber Hammers failed to respond even when Allen marked his transfer from one club to the other with a spectacular , 27th minute shot that cancelled out Wise 's rather streaky opening goal for Chelsea only a minute earlier . |
| 28 | I should perhaps add that I was not a member of the committee who heard these appeals in the first hearing since I became involved only when your Lordships who sat in the first hearing suggested a second hearing under my chairmanship and accordingly I have not been asked to consider this matter apart from the discussion of the extracts from Hansard which have been put before us in this appeal . |
| 29 | The bases in India , of which Surat founded in 1611 and Madras founded in 1642 were the most important , kept going even when the Company in London was at its lowest ebb and the current stock had sunk to 60 per cent of its original price . |
| 30 | Yes we kept going there when yeah . |