Example sentences of "[noun pl] when [pron] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as the judge quashed the indictment , the men were re-arrested in the dock and four other charges were brought : recruiting persons for training in sabotage and guerrilla warfare for the purpose of violent revolution , conspiring to aid foreign military units when they invaded the republic , furthering the aims of communism and soliciting and receiving funds for these purposes from several countries . |
| 2 | Kicking was also decisive for the Northerners when they faced the B.C. President 's XV in Victoria , winning 17–15 with a last minute try by wing Simon Johnston after four penalties by fullback Nick Robinson had nullified the goal and a try scored by their opponents . |
| 3 | Both men wanted computers when they controlled the direction in which the information flowed . |
| 4 | It will be a condition only if either there is an earlier case establishing that such a clause is a condition ( i.e. ‘ of the essence ’ ) or else it was clearly intended by the parties when they made the contract that any breach of that term would entitle the other party to repudiate the contract and reject the goods . |
| 5 | Carryduff-based Montgomery Pipe Band , whose 26 members hail from all over the province , also drummed its way into the record books when it swept the boards at Saturday 's British Championships at Hyde Park in London . |
| 6 | A smile tugged at his lips when he remembered the dead peonies falling at his feet and Sweetheart 's totally unexpected laughter . |
| 7 | Like the Philistines when they heard the shout greeting the ark 's arrival in the Israelite camp , Eli asks , ‘ What is this uproar ? ’ |
| 8 | I 've bin dealin' wiv Johnson 's fer years now , an' so was me parents when they 'ad the shop . ’ |
| 9 | The working was booked to stop at Colwyn Bay , Llandudno Junction and Llandudno , and worked from block to block until Muspratt 's Sidings when it took the Down Fast line and having got clear signals , proceeded to try to make up time . |
| 10 | So was dealing with the repercussions when we distributed the finally agreed programme . |
| 11 | Moshe Aumann concluded from original British figures that in 1948 Jews owned 8.6 per cent of the land and Arabs 20.2 per cent ; of which , he claimed , 16.9 per cent was abandoned by Arabs when they thought the neighbouring Arab armies were going to destroy Israel . |
| 12 | I felt a cold thrill in my bones when I realized the implications of the word ‘ hunters ’ — perhaps those men were Franco 's secret police ? |
| 13 | I have , on occasion , bought sticks of pastel which have crumbled into pieces when I removed the paper wrapper — this has NEVER happened to me with Schmincke pastels . |
| 14 | The hair fell to just above the nipples that protruded slightly through the black nylon , and a silver streak on the right side of her head matched the silver of the dumb-bells when they caught the light . |
| 15 | In early 1991 , Barnes trustees cited those same urgent financial needs when they petitioned the Orphans Court for permission to amend the indenture 's ban on selling works of art from the collection . |
| 16 | He looked up when he heard her , and Fran felt a ripple of heat curl along her veins when she saw the smile curving his lips . |
| 17 | Charts for intarsia and so on can be printed in colour if you have a colour printer , otherwise you can choose to print them either in shades of grey , or with the code numbers / letters that you allocated to the colours when you designed the pattern . |
| 18 | We went up the ladder of powers when we squared the data . |
| 19 | It was easy to imagine what relief the miners must have felt at the end of a long day 's work in those conditions when they saw the mouth of the tunnel framing the daylight before them . |
| 20 | He refereed international bridge matches ; and was goalkeeper for the Casuals when they won the AFA Cup final in 1913 . |
| 21 | They became famous as the Dambusters when they wrecked the Ruhr valley dams with Barnes Wallis 's revolutionary bouncing bombs after training in Derbyshire 's Derwent valley . |
| 22 | ‘ I used to have the impression that I should feel almost privileged to work at certain big-name establishments when I saw the size of my pay packet , and I never used to know my general manager . |
| 23 | Nick , of nearby Radstock , said his family — wife Melanie and daughters Abigail , 12 , Beth , 10 and Charlotte , nine — were looking for feathers when they found the shoes . |
| 24 | ‘ Can you describe your feelings when you saw the body ? ’ |
| 25 | US Senate armed services committee chairman Sam Nunn asked the Defence Department to conduct a further investigation , citing the statement in the ABC broadcast by Adml. ( retd ) William Crowe , former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff , that the Vincennes had been in Iranian waters when it fired the missile , not in international waters as previously claimed . |
| 26 | ‘ Charles Wood and I were not aware of the problems when we wrote the scene , ’ he recalled . |
| 27 | She still dealt in stolen goods when she got the chance , but the police were less interested in stolen goods than they had been in the more law-abiding times of some years before . |
| 28 | The two former East Germans were the butt of jokes when they entered the tiny 594cc car in one of the toughest tests for both man and machine . |
| 29 | Did you take er members complaints and things when you collected the dues or they had anything to pass on ? |
| 30 | Fortunately for us , they had developed the custom of leaving a few of the wild cocoa trees when they felled the forest . |