Example sentences of "[vb pp] when [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elise Fox was a woman who prided herself on her ability to deal with crisis , but at eleven o'clock that Saturday night she still lay limp on the sofa in the flat , looking utterly shattered when her young sister came in from the kitchen with yet another pot of strong black coffee . |
| 2 | Her beautician noticed when her left hand began to stay relaxed while she manicured Esther 's fingernails . |
| 3 | I was adopted when my own mother died a few days after I was born . |
| 4 | He was disturbed when his 2 attackers crashed in through a back door . |
| 5 | They both appeared sad throughout the evening and I suspected that there was something wrong ; possibly the two children had been injured when their previous home had been damaged by shellfire . |
| 6 | Thus magic was a crutch to which men turned when their technical expertise failed them , myth provided a justification or ‘ charter ’ for existing social and political activities , and ritual offered comfort in time of distress and despair . |
| 7 | The character of the building is also best preserved when its original fabric or ornament is conserved , not altered , removed or replaced . |
| 8 | Scotland 's health minister , Lord Fraser , announced yesterday that the Scottish Health Service Advisory Council will be disbanded when its current work programme is completed later this year . |
| 9 | The van Goghs must have been relieved as well as saddened when their rumbling volcano of a son departed . |
| 10 | What that basically means , wherever that happens anywhere else in the country , you go to South Wales , you go to West Lothian , places like that I 've been up to West Lothian , all services are reduced when your main industry 's removed from an area . |
| 11 | Uniform centralization was the administrative pre-condition of all other reform , as the Caroline bureaucrats found when their agrarian programme was blocked by oligarchic municipalities . |
| 12 | I first became involved when my youngest child started attending the playgroup and I was asked to work there a few mornings a week . |
| 13 | Her stomach tightened when his free hand lightly touched her breast , discovering the shape , stroking the nipple through the fine material of her nightdress , making desire explode in her mind like a shower of stars . |
| 14 | However the time taken to re-charge the capacitor is proportional to the charging time constant , so if a high resistance is used the capacitor may not be completely charged when its stored energy is next required . |
| 15 | But in 1984 , tragedy struck when her 24-year-old daughter , Samantha , plunged to her death from the Clifton Suspension Bridge near Bristol . |
| 16 | They 're often they 're offended when they Red Indians is n't , are n't they ? |
| 17 | I have concluded that either a ) the database was saved only to a floppy disk and taken away by your student , or b ) it was a WORKS database and was irretrievably lost when my hard disk crashed last year . |
| 18 | This results from the strategy adopted by Mr Papandreou , whose eight years in office ended when his socialist Pasok party was defeated in an inconclusive election last June . |
| 19 | Police have now named the three rugby fans who were killed when their light aircraft crashed into a field . |
| 20 | Livestock too present many dangers with one farmer being killed when his Simmental bull attacked him . |
| 21 | Shortly after returning to Etosha , Ian Hofmeyr was killed when his catching truck , pulling over to make way for a lorry on a park track , rolled onto its side in an irrigation ditch . |
| 22 | A DRIVER was killed when his three-wheeler car overturned and skidded along the road , hitting an elderly woman and ramming a pub sign . |
| 23 | Pacing himself steadily along the dusty track , the Doctor halted when his flickering eyes fell upon an unnatural addition to the landscape . |
| 24 | ‘ Sir Vivien often played a round before breakfast , ’ said Major Ernest ‘ Tiger ’ Bagshot , 43 , Secretary of Royal Wrigglesworth , ‘ But my suspicions were aroused when his black labrador , Bonzo , appeared at the clubhouse at approximately ten o'clock . |
| 25 | This keyword is only required when your relational database is ORACLE . |
| 26 | The Sunsets , left behind when Stevens hit the top of the charts , claimed they were never paid when their first album , A Legend , was re-released . |