Example sentences of "[vb past] when [pron] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joanne Menzies still looked drawn and strained when she ushered Detective-Sergeant McWhirter into Mr Steen 's office on the Monday afternoon . |
| 2 | He was frightened and trembled when he saw iron bars because of his earlier experience of detentions . |
| 3 | These Awards are intended to encourage schools and local agencies to work together in involving young people in sport , and keeping them involved when they leave school . |
| 4 | ‘ There are also areas where we can learn from them , as we found when we visited Khmelnitski last year . ’ |
| 5 | ARGENTINA 's new Finance Minister , Mr Antonio Erman Gonzalez , has quickly plunged into the free market economics President Carlos Menem promised when he took power in July . |
| 6 | They stopped when they reached Sybil , who was already in the water , and Belinda put her hands on her hips . |
| 7 | They stopped when one say Joy waiting an order at the side of the table . |
| 8 | She was scribbling a note , but stopped when she saw Alice , with a smile that was both severe and weak , telling Alice that Pat had not wanted to face the business of goodbyes , and would now hurry through them . |
| 9 | To his surprise , she stopped when she reached Mark 's chair and took the vacant seat beside him , nodding casually in his direction and flashing a devastating smile as she carefully arranged herself on display . |
| 10 | He stopped when he saw Katherine sweeping down the stairs . |
| 11 | He stopped when he saw Jotan and Jehan sitting there , and then bowed hastily . |
| 12 | Dot woke when she heard Gloria coming down the clanky metal steps outside , heard her stumble her way across the room , and then felt herself being pushed to the far side of the bed . |
| 13 | Was Frederic Manning , for instance , the Australian who would later write Her Privates We , in love with Dorothy , and wounded when she preferred Pound ? |
| 14 | The old nun was as imperious as ever but she visibly thawed when she saw Corbett and beamed with pleasure at his gift . |
| 15 | The turning-point in his career came when he met Walter Sickert [ q.v. ] |
| 16 | Dave 's closest brush with a total gratification zone came when he met Bono on U2 's recent American tour . |
| 17 | His first professional contact with the Royal Navy came when he joined Navy News in 1969 . |
| 18 | John had made a few 1st Division appearances with Charlton , but undoubtedly the climax of his career came when he captained Palace to promotion to that premier division of world soccer at the end of 1968–69 — and then maintained his high level of performance by helping to keep the Palace in the top flight for the two remaining seasons in which he stayed with the club . |
| 19 | My first inkling of this came when I phoned Karen shortly after the funeral . |
| 20 | But the struggle must have taken its toll on her , until the time came when she needed help herself . |
| 21 | Villa , who sold Platt for £5.5m , are entitled to half of any profit Bari received when they sold Platt on to Juventus in the summer . |
| 22 | They duly applauded when he quantified electrochemistry in his famous laws of electrolysis , and when he proved experimentally that electricity from a condenser , a battery or an eel was the same . |
| 23 | That 's what happened when we had Mrs Thatcher and Barry Manilow on the same show . |
| 24 | Finally and in total conclusion I must tell you what happened when we took Adam to a specialist to find out if he had a particular familial complaint . |
| 25 | What happened when we dripped acid on marble chippings on a carbonate ? |
| 26 | ‘ When you mention epilepsy people straight away think of the major fit grand-mal , they do n't think of absence seizures , ’ said Mrs McLeod , whose first fit happened when she had polio as a child . |
| 27 | ‘ What happened when you left school ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Just try and see if you can tell me what happened when you left Eastover . |
| 29 | What happened when you left Hatton and Pertwee at the bridge ? ’ |
| 30 | But at that moment the nurse returned accompanied by a white-coated bespectacled young doctor , who frowned when he saw Curtis and Springfield . |