Example sentences of "[verb] from the [noun] when " in BNC.

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1 For those who grow their own tomatoes or can buy from the market when the fruit is cheap , here it is :
2 Ebenezer Judge had resigned from the Brotherhood when the Great War began ; he volunteered for the army , and was sent to Flanders .
3 On a daily basis the objectives are to ‘ make sure that the investments or companies are progressing according to plan and are well placed to survive a prolonged recession ’ and , he adds , ‘ dare I say it , to benefit from the upturn when it comes ’ .
4 When I start the two and a quarter petrol engine in my IIA 109 from cold , a cloud of light grey smoke is emitted from the exhaust when the engine first fires up .
5 She was just walking from the building when she saw Paul Fisher .
6 Four of the nine officials on the Canadian Airline Safety Board ( CASB ) panel which investigated the incident dissented from the report when it was issued in December last year .
7 I was preparing to depart from the hospital when the British nurse entered my suite in a white glow of anger .
8 Elderly men clammed up when Barley asked questions in the presence of his assistant , who was felt to be too young ; men rushed howling from the room when he casually asked about circumcision in a sister 's presence .
9 The passageway outside was still reverberating from the crash when he started in on the door of the next apartment .
10 I left Werewolf with a withering look and headed for the edge of the road , cutting back deeper into the trees so I could n't be seen from the farmhouse when I reached the fenced-off field .
11 A cry of horror came from the artist when he saw the terrible face in the portrait .
12 This much I could see from the outside when I went down to have a look at it .
13 The opposition Semangat " 46 party retained two Kelantan State Assembly seats on Aug. 24 in by-elections called after two of its Assembly members defected to the United Malays National Organization and were then disqualified from the Assembly when it passed retroactive anti-defection legislation .
14 Printed with a new thermal chromatic invisible ink , the animals and trees actually disappear from the T-shirt when you get hot — just as quickly as they are disappearing from the wild , in fact !
15 And at the Valley of the Rocks , he remembered , Coleridge rushed from the inn when a thunderstorm threatened , ‘ to enjoy the commotion of the elements ’ .
16 Throughout the meal he told them of his success at bartering with the guards , or stealing from the farmers when they were sent to work on farms .
17 Largely relying on their savers for their funds , they have to borrow from the City when savings run low .
18 It had made the Marchese a small fortune when he sold it to the deputy of the English connoisseur in Naples who was going to ship it away in boxes ; it was being stripped from the walls when the Government heard of it and came and sealed up the villa again , but not before one of the intermediaries had sliced enough off the top of the deal to pay his passage to America , promising to send after him for his family .
19 But sterling was soon withdrawn from the scheme when the pound was floated in June 1972 .
20 Smith told police he thought the girls had already jumped from the bay when he , Harper and Winter had run off .
21 He suggested once to Blanche that she could perhaps feel such chill draughts blowing from the past when others could not .
22 ‘ Will you be all right ? ’ asked Rachel dubiously , worried that Belinda might try to climb from the horse when the carousel was in motion , or , even worse , that she might slip from its back .
23 MCLAREN 's problems appeared to intensify as the race approached , with the Austrian swapping cars 30 minutes before the start and then being forced to start from the pit-lane when he failed to make the parade lap .
24 One Borstal inmate , Rodney Ackland , was expelled from the company when it was discovered that he had written a highbrow play while employed as a BIP screenwriter .
25 He was a member of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Serbia , but was expelled from the Party when President Milosevic came to power .
26 The question which lies at the heart of the appeal is whether money exacted as taxes from a citizen by the revenue ultra vires is recoverable by the citizen as of right ; if so , Woolwich will be entitled to interest on the sums repaid to it by the revenue , running from the dates when those sums were paid to the revenue by Woolwich .
27 Every light seemed to be glaring from the windows when they arrived .
28 If a tap is dripping from the top when turned on the cause is probably failed packing or a failed O-ring seal .
29 The auction house decided to withdraw from the sale when its December 1990 contract with Lord Northampton came up for renewal .
30 The 32-year-old Londoner led from the start when he beat teammate Alain Prost off the grid and held his lead for six laps .
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