Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] when a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Retail Runner , who made all when a highly impressive eight-length winner at Ascot on his reappearance , looks set to take the Hallowe'en Novices Chase . |
| 2 | There is a simple form of the STV , used only when a single candidate is to be elected , namely the alternative vote ( the AV ) . |
| 3 | It was the bloodiest day in two and a half years of Arab protest against Israeli protest against Israeli rule , triggered off when a twenty one year old Israeli machine-gunned seven Arabs to death on a sandy road embankment outside Tel Aviv . |
| 4 | ‘ My reward came later when a neighbour dropped in to see how things were going . |
| 5 | Technicians at the Royal Mail Research and Development centre in Swindon walked out when a colleague was sacked for refusing to use a machine that his union had banned . |
| 6 | It started badly when a woman in the group found a tick burrowed deeply into her leg , needing a painful pull with tweezers to extract it . |
| 7 | Attempts at mediation by officials , including Kirghizia 's Prime Minister Apas Dzhumagulov , broke down when a large group of Kirghiz arrived , whereupon the Uzbeks rushed the cordon of around 900 police officers keeping the rival nationalities apart . |
| 8 | Laidlaw trailed off when a car suddenly came into view at the other end of the dimly lit street . |
| 9 | The ex-chauffeur , who ferried bosses from site to site , told how panic broke out when a woman phoned Balfour 's head office to say she had found the blueprint on a rush-hour Jubilee Line train . |
| 10 | OPERA buffs made sure the show went on when a storm hit their open-air Carmen — they moved into a cowshed . |
| 11 | A railway spokesman , Gautam Banerjee , said the bomb went off when a police patrol stopped the man and wanted to search his bag . |
| 12 | Great cheers went up when a hit was scored , or when the police dragged someone out on the opposite side . |
| 13 | CHART stars Pop Will Eat Itself blew up when a mix-up stopped them appearing in Sweden . |
| 14 | Arizona was hit first and blew up when a bomb hit near No 2 turret exploding the magazines . |
| 15 | Event-related potentials , as the term implies , refers to the changes brought about when a subject is presented with a particular stimulus . |
| 16 | The Leeds striker 's world fell apart when a hamstring injury cost him his first-ever place in a senior England squad in Spain tomorrow . |
| 17 | Gavin of Briar Drive , Huyton , used delaying tactics , but his world fell apart when a relative ‘ created havoc ’ at the Nalgo offices . |
| 18 | Lawrie McMenemy 's men went ahead when a free-kick by Tottenham striker Darren Anderton was headed into his own net by defender Nuno Luis . |
| 19 | Rangers went ahead when a superb ball from John Brown allowed David Robertson to go down the line on the left , and McCoist was on the spot to whip home the cross . |
| 20 | Mr Shaw was believed to have been waiting to collect fishbait near the shores of Belfast Lough at Quay Road , Newtownabbey as he did daily when a car pulled alongside and a gunman opened fire at point-blank range . |
| 21 | All these institutions are controlled From above , all an subject to directives emanating from the same political institution or institutions , all have their key officials in the nomenklatura of higher Party officials ( that is , their officials are appointed and removed only when a Party organ takes the action or agrees to it ) , all have developed many of the characteristics associated with bureaucratization . |
| 22 | Doubts within the SPD about the choice of Lafontaine , and about his conduct of the campaign , resurfaced notably when a Dutch newspaper in late November cited a comment by former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt that he would lose the election and " deserves it too " . |
| 23 | SHOPPERS cashed in when a power cut shut down a supermarket 's electronic tills . |
| 24 | The appellant and two companions decided to rob a shop , and entered the shop wearing stocking masks and carrying knives ; they ran away when a friend of the proprietor threw a toffee jar at them . |
| 25 | Her attacker ran off when a passing motorist stopped . |
| 26 | This custom ended suddenly when a witch took the opportunity to kidnap several of the children , who were never seen again . |
| 27 | She was skirting the moving foam , a foot away , and jumped sideways when a wave overreached . |
| 28 | Bangers punctuated the soundtrack , snow fountains cascaded in the aisles , and the film ended abruptly when a five-bob rocket went straight through Bill Haley 's open mouth . |