Example sentences of "when [noun] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though the latter was at this time a much celebrated amateur artist he was surprised , on arriving , when Minton detached himself from the crowd he was talking with in order to cross the room and greet Cornish by name . |
| 2 | All my dreams of playing for United to the end of my career — and I was on a seven- year contract — vanished when Ferguson called me into his office and offered me a cash pay-off to clear out and go and do something else with my life . |
| 3 | when thunder eased itself to drizzle . |
| 4 | But it was n't easy to lose puppy fat when Mum fed her on stodgy good home cooking — stews with dumplings and meat pies with pastry crusts and steamed sponge puddings , and there was no money to spare for proper hairdressing salons . |
| 5 | It was a revelation after the pain of trotting and Nails was cross when Nutty brought it to an end . |
| 6 | Mr Foggerty was agreeably surprised , but when Nutty reminded him of the standard required , he relapsed into grim gloom and stood on the side of the bath in his white T-shirt and jeans looking at his watch and saying , ‘ I ca n't spare the time to do this three nights a week for the next year , which is what is required . |
| 7 | Lineker also reveals his anger when Taylor criticised him after an international against the Republic of Ireland and when he was dropped 24 hours before a friendly with France . |
| 8 | Just having a think , " Aunt Tossie said when Nicandra roused her with a gentle nudge . |
| 9 | When Jessica poked her in the ribs and swore they were coming for them , she hardly raised her head . |
| 10 | When Stoker approached him with a play intended for his master , Irving , taking no thought of the devotion shown by his factotum , reacted along a scale from dismissiveness to contempt . |
| 11 | The bleeding persisted and Jean was very weak when Jim left her at the maternity ward . |
| 12 | When MacDonald told him on 29 September that he was having difficulty finding a formula which could unite his colleagues , George V |
| 13 | Thus the term irony is used in something approaching its usual acceptance when Brooks associates it with Yeats 's appeal to the Greek sages in ‘ Sailing to That Yeats should speak of the ‘ artifice of eternity ’ evidently undermines in a sense the appearance of passion and sincerity with which he invokes the Greek sages , and thus can be said to bring about a kind of ironic reconciliation between his aspiration of a life free from Nature , and his rational awareness of his human limitations ( Brooks 1949 : 173 ) . |
| 14 | Even when experts leave us with choices , we are more often than not reluctant to exercise such choice ; ‘ what do you recommend ? ’ , we ask . |
| 15 | The pyramids were already 2,000 years old when Herodotus visited them in the middle of the fifth century BC , but he found the Egyptians still told tales of misery about their construction , the horrors suffered by the populace . |
| 16 | When Strawalde freed himself of the constraints of narrative painting he became the father of sensuous abstract art in the DDR and now , in his sixties , is finally receiving the international recognition which was denied him before the Wall came down . |
| 17 | When Sister handed me over Mrs Fields thrust a sheaf of lists of names at me . |
| 18 | Yeah I was surprised that er Kathleen is it , when Kathleen told us down street about her , her son |
| 19 | When Arafat satisfied himself of the identity of the three Palestinians responsible , they were sent down to Tyre ‘ in disgrace ’ . |
| 20 | When Woolley instructed them in shooting the enemy in the back he was not being melodramatic , he really meant it , because Woolley was a professional . |
| 21 | And he 's at it again when Downes hits him with whatever 's to hand ; kills him ; wonders where he 's going to dump the corpse ; ca n't dress him — far too difficult dressing a corpse — ’ |
| 22 | The bald star had been left in tears earlier when fans jeered her for ripping up a picture of the Pope on a US chat show . |
| 23 | When Richard handed it to me I was so surprised I forgot to enquire whether or not il s'agit d'un cadeau , but if not , I must settle up with you when next you 're here . |
| 24 | That being so , the Capriati 's turned to Slozil , who had been in tear when Steffi presented him with a gold watch to mark their parting after five mostly triumphant years . |
| 25 | When the White House lawyer first tried to debrief Reagan on what he knew of the affair , the president was said to have told him stories of Hollywood ; when journalists badgered him about the deals he had half-wittingly struck with Israel and Iran in August 1985 , he replied amiably : ‘ Everybody that can remember what they were doing on August 8th 1985 , raise your hand . ’ |
| 26 | When Heg told us about TIE 's contacts in Brazil , we wrote to them . |
| 27 | Indirect Rule and the evolution of the Commonwealth idea had disarmed much left-wing criticism of the empire in the years between the wars and encouraged the development among British radicals of ‘ responsible ’ views on imperial subjects , which came naturally to bloom when Labour found itself at last in office . |
| 28 | Draper was appalled when Branson telephoned him from Oxford on the Sunday evening , bubbling with enthusiasm for his new project . |
| 29 | When Andy invited me to the launch of the The Gadget Shop I naively assumed it would be in the shop itself , in Covent Garden . |
| 30 | It was large and heavy , a weighty double handful , smoothed above by exposure , beneath its dappling of lichen and moss ; but when Cadfael turned it over it showed rough and pale , with some jagged edges that were tipped with a dark crust , not yet dried out . |