Example sentences of "[verb] in [art] [noun sg] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was walking in the park when some youngsters squirted a water-pistol in her face and taunted her and her guide dog , Judd . |
| 2 | They had been out walking in the garden when Hal had suggested he go with him and see Ben 's room . |
| 3 | The sting lies in the tail when Vanek bends his principles to accommodate his desperate interrogator . |
| 4 | There are many others like him , lurking in the background when they should be centre stage . |
| 5 | There used to be er , a lady that used to come in the cinema when I worked there , and she had a |
| 6 | I was just going to look through it to find out what was happening in the passage when I saw a fishy eye fixed in the centre . |
| 7 | Come down and snooze in a garden when I am a dragon , an ocean-lurking , sky-flying free dragon ; when the mother wind that keeps the world spinning caresses my scales as I fly across the moon and bring warnings and hopes to the fiery heart of the world ; when I can dance aloft at dawn , so that the rising sun turns my every scale to a pure diamond and the tides and rhythms of the oceans slow down in delight . |
| 8 | Tension rose in the republic when a dozen people were injured in a bomb attack on a Croatian cultural centre at Odzak on Feb.24 . |
| 9 | Fred had been helping to rescue a family trapped in a cellar when a collapsing beam held him trapped by his left arm and leg for several hours , but he made a good recovery . |
| 10 | Although the bolts were thick , I still bent in the middle when I was lifted and carried , a man at either of my ends . |
| 11 | Well not not when he got pulled but he I was sat in the backseat when he was pissy . |
| 12 | The risks of competitive bidding need to be included in the analysis when it is well-known that genuine bids are difficult to detect , so that large multinationals can make ‘ loss-leader ’ bids to exclude local firms , as in the case of refuse collection in the United States , and ‘ performance contractors ’ for US school districts can leak ‘ their ’ students the examination questions to improve the firm 's success rate ( R. Goodwin 1982 ) . |
| 13 | A typical example occurred in a case when the Employment Appeal Tribunal overturned an industrial tribunal 's decision that it was not practicable to consult where 33 redundancies were required urgently , at a time when take-over negotiations were being conducted in secret . |
| 14 | ‘ What if we 're caught in a firefight when we find Bernard ? |
| 15 | COPREFA later retracted this statement , recognized she was a human rights worker and decided she had been caught in the cross-fire when she died . |
| 16 | ‘ A smalltime crook who got caught in the crossfire when I was working on a story a couple of years ago . |
| 17 | I did n't want you to be caught in the crossfire when it came . |
| 18 | Now Northampton is twenty one miles from Bedford now we were never classed as living in the south when we lived there . |
| 19 | I do n't know why he 's living in the cottage when he has a home elsewhere — and a wife . ’ |
| 20 | In this context we may well ask whether we are not living in an age when God is judging our Western civilisation — whether the inflation of the Western world is a judgment on materialism , or the rising unemployment a judgment on militant trade unionism or the crisis of capitalism a judgment on the secular humanism of our age . |
| 21 | He recalled an evening 's carousing in the jungle when he challenged Durrell to compose some verse in honour of the ‘ unrhymable ’ Mrs Araminta Whitley . |
| 22 | Irene Green found her husband Gordon , 57 , slumped in a chair when she arrived home at Hall Drive , Acklam , Middlesbrough , on October 21 . |
| 23 | Mehringer was slumped in the rope when his partner , above , saw what seemed a huge sheet of glass cascading down . |
| 24 | She was absorbed in a letter when Mervyn Cantrell came into the room . |
| 25 | SURGEONS hoped last night to be able to save the sight of a seven-year-old girl who was passing in a car when the City of London bomb exploded . |
| 26 | Matt was peeing in the river when one of the sparks came up and told him it was n't a good idea . |
| 27 | They were things like a servant getting shot in the chest when a big party went out shooting , or a boat capsizing on the lake , nearly drowning the four occupants . |
| 28 | The one who got shot in the chest when Special Branch and MIs tried to pick him up in Bayswater . |
| 29 | Mr Jacks , 23 , whose parents live in Welshpool , bled to death after he was shot in the thigh when three masked men burst into his flat in Putney , south-west London , on June 5 . |
| 30 | MORE than 50 children were swimming in a pool when deadly clouds of chlorine gas bubbled up through the water . |