Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] the [noun] when " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Daylight was filtering through the shutters when Luce awoke to instant and complete remembrance . |
| 2 | Have you talked only about the bride cooking for the bridegroom when you know she is a career girl and a women 's libber , and if she is not some of the audience will be ? |
| 3 | ‘ On our first date we were driving through the countryside when we spotted some sheep out in a field . |
| 4 | A DPP lawyer said a female member of staff was walking through the shop when she felt something hard stuck in her side . |
| 5 | Frank soon became a prolific scorer for the Reserves but he graduated to the first team as the ideal foil to the great goal-scorer , Peter Simpson , having begun by deputising for the master when Peter was out injured . |
| 6 | We started climbing towards the mess when , at 9.35 , the alarm went again . |
| 7 | A Soho nightclub manager , Mr Peter Goodchild , 56 , was walking past the flats when the device exploded 20 yards behind him . |
| 8 | Gwendoline Thornton was walking past the junction when with her husband . |
| 9 | ‘ We had been to the pub down the road and were walking towards the crossing when we saw the train was coming , ‘ she said . |
| 10 | The boy was driving like the wind when suddenly we hit something . |
| 11 | Eye witness Richard was driving behind the coach when the accident happened . |
| 12 | One morning I was driving along the road when I saw an old man frantically waving a walking stick at passing cars . |
| 13 | He choked back the tears and shook as he told of how he 'd been driving along the road when steam started coming out of the bonnet . |
| 14 | She was walking into the hotel when she heard his car start up . |
| 15 | He told Heatley that he had been walking along the footpath when the police had made a baton charge . |
| 16 | She was walking in the park when some youngsters squirted a water-pistol in her face and taunted her and her guide dog , Judd . |
| 17 | Germans were confidently walking in the streets when the alarm sounded but they did n't take it seriously and failed to go to air raid shelters . |
| 18 | They had been out walking in the garden when Hal had suggested he go with him and see Ben 's room . |
| 19 | There are many others like him , lurking in the background when they should be centre stage . |
| 20 | Nieto was walking alongside the touchline when a ball kicked from within the field hit him in the face , breaking his glasses . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She was just walking from the building when she saw Paul Fisher . |
| 23 | Our dad loves walking over the fields when he comes home tired from working in the city . |
| 24 | The group 's press officer , Mick Houghton , thought it was Gregory 's departure that he would soon be explaining to the press when suddenly he was told Charman was out . |
| 25 | Nuneaton AC scrapped plans to keep a match booking on the canal when the predators threatened to ruin their 80 peg Open . |
| 26 | In a series of experiments in which people were asked to describe their flats , Linde and Labov ( 1975 ) found that almost all subjects followed the order of describing the entrance , and then rooms branching off the entrance , returning to the hallway when they came to a dead end . |
| 27 | ‘ The girl was walking on the pavement when the bus crashed into railings damaging them badly and the side of the bus hit her a glancing blow , ’ he said . |
| 28 | Emily knew that her beautiful daughter had a dozen friends at school , she had seen her walking down the street when classes were over , surrounded by other girls . |
| 29 | They were both still laughing at the memory when the off sales bell rang . |
| 30 | Now , she was walking across the room when she farted , and her father said , ‘ Did you whisper ? ’ |