Example sentences of "when [pron] [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When nothing else happened disappointment diluted her excitement . |
| 2 | When I finally received permission to travel south , we went to the two holiest cities of Shia Islam , Kerbala and Najaf. and found that the buildings there , gorgeous in their gliding and intricate mosaics , had been terribly damaged by the loyalist troops of the Iraqi army when they finally defeated the Shiite uprising in March 1991 . |
| 3 | In Spain , about the only times when things got put in this much perspective were when Nirvana were actually playing — Madrid was still below-par , frenzy-wise , but a thrilling experience purely because the audience was so enthused by it all — and when I finally interviewed Dave , Chris and Kurt . |
| 4 | My initial thoughts that the process of filming during the meetings and workshops might inhibit the participants from speaking their minds , was quickly dispelled when I later took part in several workshops at Highlander and discovered ( with some amazement ) , that the camera crew quickly became ‘ invisible ’ as people got their teeth into the subject matter . |
| 5 | However when I enthusiastically told friends and acquaintances about the planned evening they did not share my enthusiasm . |
| 6 | Yes , that is an important point which was impressed on me when I recently visited Cornwall . |
| 7 | The job of keeping them together has been entrusted to a series of ‘ confidants ’ who write his books , churn out his articles , furnish his quotes , capture his image and sweeten the sour , and when I once asked Niki why he would n't ever do a serious — and in consequence , a truthful — book about himself , he replied , why should he ? |
| 8 | Our very first Diary revealed that when someone half inched Mrs Thatcher 's picture from Horden Conservative Club , they left old Winnie behind . ) |
| 9 | When someone there recognised Seb as the jockey who had won the previous year 's race at the Wychwood Forest Fair it created a sudden surge of interest and betting became very much brisker . |
| 10 | Well I have n't suggested a a figure , I made reference and I also referred to the fact that when you then discounted completions , identified sites , and existing measurements , you would be approximately eight hundred and fifty dwellings short . |
| 11 | ‘ She was doing quite nicely when she suddenly developed gas gangrene . |
| 12 | She was still crying when she suddenly noticed Gabriel Oak , who had come up the path on his way to the church , and was watching her sympathetically . |
| 13 | The blonde Beverly Hills 90210 beauty was racing on a powerful jet-ski at Malibu Beach when she suddenly lost control of the machine . |
| 14 | Luciano Pavarotti rested there after his famous Hyde Park concert , actor Richard Gere is a regular at the hotel and Madonna stopped there when she recently visited London . |
| 15 | Peter Barnes when we already had Carl Harris and Arthur Graham . |
| 16 | There was considerable relief as well as jubilation when we finally received consent from the governments that afternoon . ’ |
| 17 | The thing is , I thought I need to write to them , because when we just sent Mr |
| 18 | Well , I 'm not supposed to tell you but he was smoking on the station when we just caught sight of him . |
| 19 | He was an extremely effective and wise lawyer , but he was also a man who had the common sense to understand the nature of the advice I required ; it was advice that would discourage Harold Wilson from proceeding any further ; so much so that there were only three occasions when we actually started proceedings on his behalf . |
| 20 | When they finally parted company he gave her a kiss on the cheek . |
| 21 | And that would again link him with Ian Botham , who walked out on Somerset when they previously signed Crowe and sacked his great West Indian pals Viv Richards and Joel Garner . |
| 22 | When they eventually became man and wife , it was the ‘ quietest of quiet weddings ’ and they had to pay half-a-crown for two passers-by to act as witnesses . |
| 23 | He let the veteran British know exactly how he felt when they recently came face to face at a film festival . |
| 24 | Seeking to translate this question of morality to local issues , I asked the question , did the candidates agree that it was morally wrong and perhaps a misuse of public funds for local councillors to claim that there was no money available to install gas central heating in the homes of elderly disabled people when they always found money for hospitality allowances and trips abroad for themselves . |
| 25 | Verbose as in when they actually said things , they they did a lot of talking . |
| 26 | The two-seater Chipmunk aircraft had just taken off when it unexpectedly veered sharpley back towards the runway . |
| 27 | There is no risk , thank God , of Andrew Lloyd Webber wanting to enter the Commons , a place of meagre payment , but the Guardian created a fearful frisson when it wickedly asked Bernard Manning to fill the first of its ‘ How I am Voting ’ slots , and drew a mouthful of club-night nastiness . |
| 28 | Erm right through till eighty two when it actually got funding . |
| 29 | The Lithuanian Supreme Soviet , which as a result of elections on Feb. 24 had passed firmly into the control of deputies affiliated to the nationalist Sajudis movement , on March 11 plunged the Soviet Union into a constitutional crisis when it unilaterally declared Lithuania independent . |
| 30 | On the morning of 8 May , Ciparis had been waiting as usual for his breakfast to be brought to him , when it suddenly grew dark , and immediately afterwards , hot air laden with ashes began to come through the grating over the door . |