Example sentences of "when [noun] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first , when Perdita held out the bucket , she was too frozen with fear to drink . |
| 2 | ‘ Thank God , ’ she said , when Kelly picked up the phone . |
| 3 | Her moment of complete despair had come when Doyle switched on the radio and sat down to wait and see what happened . |
| 4 | When O put down the phone at the end of this first call , he did not know how to say goodbye to Boy ; he did not know what name to use . |
| 5 | When waves crash over the reef , the fish swims into a crevice , sticks up its bony trigger and locks itself in place so firmly that neither ocean currents , hungry predators nor inquisitive skin divers can extract it . |
| 6 | But in a sense I mean I can erm I mean I agree with everything you 've said , erm but er when Murdoch took over the Sun I mean the Sun was selling , at one point was selling about four million copies which is |
| 7 | Shah was setting in motion a chain of events which would lead to the bitter Wapping strike , when Murdoch took on the print unions — previously assumed to be invincible — and won . |
| 8 | When Blyth came back the next year he was even more unpleasant than before , having lost his left leg from above the knee in a road accident ( the boy he was playing'chicken ’ with was killed ) . |
| 9 | Hadleigh 's winner came eight minutes before the end when Keys set up the chance for Smith to score his second with a shot on the run . |
| 10 | When Lineker threw down the captain 's arm band in disgust , the rift between the pair first became public . |
| 11 | Felipe was still having breakfast when Maggie went down the next morning , and it caught her off guard . |
| 12 | We were still going slowly and painfully round the room when Estella brought in the relations who had been waiting downstairs . |
| 13 | Women face impossible difficulties in trying to combine the roles of mother , paid worker and unpaid domestic worker , and when marriage breaks down the consequences are obvious in terms of the vulnerability of lone mothers and their children to poverty . |
| 14 | On the subject of boyfriends Shiona was notoriously sensitive , and doubly so , it appeared , when Jake brought up the subject . |
| 15 | It 's very important that when parents split up the child has the opportunity to know where both parents are living and how to keep in touch with both of them . |
| 16 | The slide-rules had been passed on to a Swedish group known as Bread and Fish , which was packing them together with clothes and medicines for southern Africa , when arsonists burned down the warehouse . |
| 17 | When Piper bought out the old-established light aircraft firm of Stinson in 1949–50 it inherited the Twin-Stinson , a light twin of generous proportions which , in original form , had twin fins and a pair of 135 hp Lycoming engines . |
| 18 | When Lyddy folded back the shutters in the morning , bright cold winter sunlight bounced into the room like an explosion . |
| 19 | When war broke out the best known suffragettes turned overnight from militant confrontation with the male establishment to enthusiastic participation in the crusade against Prussianism . |
| 20 | They are bitter that when Dupont took over the workers were not told the true situation . |
| 21 | When stories appear along the lines that in another life you were a peasant girl who starved to death during Ireland 's potato famine you know you 've arrived . |
| 22 | This happens when water leaches out the salt used to preserve the leather or when leather comes into contact with sea water or salt used to grit the roads . |
| 23 | But it still hurts when Gordon sits out the big Euro nights . |
| 24 | And six days later she hit the jackpot … when Bonnie paid back the cash . |
| 25 | But when stuff came down the dock to people off , on to a boat , would that be stored in a warehouse first and then go on to the boat or would it be |
| 26 | When Quinn put down the phone , it was the first time Sam had seen him appear visibly shaken . |
| 27 | The six-foot-six-inch England forward returned to America after helping the Mohawks gain a place in the play-offs with a victory at Cardiff in their last league game of the season before also being outstanding in the first game of the play offs when Middlesborugh pulled off the shock of the season by winning at second division league winners Oldham . |
| 28 | When Jaq turned up the gain on his sensor , static flooded it . |
| 29 | When Mary woke up the next morning , she saw a young servant girl cleaning the fireplace . |
| 30 | Ann looked up and forced a smile ; and when Jennifer glanced up the table at the master of the house , Harry replied with a wink . |