Example sentences of "when [art] [noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I think we had reached about 11,000 feet when the barrage opened up over Valetta and , against the white puffs , I saw seven biplanes heading directly towards us in a shallow vic formation .
2 ‘ That was when the order went out : Be nice to Diana . ’
3 Grandfather , the youngest son of Count Nikolai Denknetzeyan , was nineteen when the revolution broke out .
4 The final straw was when the government put up the price of rice yet again .
5 By 1715 when the syndicate took over Savery 's part of the patent there were engines in use in Staffordshire , Warwickshire , Cornwall and Flintshire .
6 The victims were crushed to death when the coach turned over in the air and smashed into the ground roof downwards .
7 I forgot all about donating and the transfusion service lost track of me as I moved from house to house over the years , until the other day when the subject came up in the office .
8 Well , like , I can remember when the word went round that someone was coming to do research on the RUC .
9 In 1953 , the coastal region was the site of one of Britain 's worst natural disasters when the tide surged in and caused extensive flooding and loss of life .
10 Once again Leonora found herself fighting with the tiller in a dinghy threatening to stand on its head in a mountainous sea , but this time when the engine cut out she was plucked from the boat before she could hit the water .
11 Then I remember that time when the tent blew down in the snowstorm and his sleeping bag went in the slush .
12 I appreciate Mr it 's now five years ago but how long did it take from when the door went down to you getting to the main bedroom ?
13 And er they were , well quite a lot of them were scrapped in the days when the depression came on .
14 I derived considerable entertainment from watching the expressions on the lads ' faces when the call went out .
15 This was never likely to offer a basis for a wages agreement and the employers issued notices giving the reduced wage rates on 30 April and 1 May 1926 , when the subsidy ran out .
16 Once I tied a wasp to the striking-surface of each of the copper-coloured bells on the top , where the little hammer would hit them in the morning when the alarm went off .
17 ‘ I had n't realised it had all taken so long — it was lunchtime when the alarm went off . ’
18 But it fell into disrepair earlier this century when the water dried up .
19 I learned from my uncle how to catch fish in the wetland during the dry season by using special fishing tackle , and how to release the fishing net during the rainy season when the water came out of the river to the field and wetland .
20 see when the water comes back out the filter it goes through this pipe right , a big unit type of thing
21 Until 1858 , when the state set up a new administrative body at Somerset House , the responsibility for proving wills lay with the church .
22 It was a hell of a job even to complete some episodes when the money ran out .
23 Yes , you can see when the ball goes off , then you 'll end up in the far corner .
24 The crash happened on March 14 when the helicopter went down while transporting 15 men from Shell 's Cormorant Alpha platform to an accommodation barge .
25 What we will say , if we keep clearly in mind that everything might have been the same up to the instant when the bar came out , and no bar might have come out is that nothing caused the bar to come out .
26 Then when we got to the sawmill I 'd stay close beside Uncle Bill watching him sawing and planing , keeping well away from the saw , until midday when the mill shut up for the week .
27 Notices warning of the dangers of thin ice were put up in the last few days when the lake froze over .
28 If I quote three or four quid underneath , he 'll consider it and we may get an order in a few months time when the schedule runs out .
29 A few telephones had direct outside lines when the switchboard closed down at night .
30 In the evenings we trundled a wheelbarrow down to the banks of the Dee and collected driftwood for the fire , because at 500 feet above sea-level , even after roasting days , when the sun went down it was cool enough to need it .
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