Example sentences of "when [pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When my holiday had the goodness to be over , I stood on the usual rush-hour bus and read a schoolboy 's comic strips over his shoulder . |
| 2 | When they complained to the hunt er , the Master brought er a leg of pork round , not a leg of lamb I might add , a leg of pork to er , appease them er one other point , ooh yeah , there was , is one other point actually , when my daughter challenged the hunt she was appalled by the arrogance of these pink coated hooray Henrys who totally ignored her plight and er just carried on with whatever they wished to do . |
| 3 | Well — that happened to me when my daughter joined the local Brownie Pack ; they were desperate for help and that ‘ couple of hours on a Friday ’ led to my becoming that pack 's Brown Owl , moving to a Guide Company that was in danger of closing and finally becoming District Commissioner administration four Brownie Packs , four Guide Companies and one Ranger Unit . |
| 4 | Yeah it was like when my mother-in-law had the |
| 5 | When my mother saw the room , her jaw dropped . |
| 6 | ‘ When my mother died the only persons to whom I owed duty were my lord who had followed the cross , and Marian , my lord 's daughter . |
| 7 | I knew what she would suffer when my father heard the truth . |
| 8 | There I was chucking copies of a certain rival mag into the fire when my father entered the room brandishing the latest copy of ZZAP ! |
| 9 | The delegation from Liverpool were stunned when their request to meet the PM was granted . |
| 10 | ELEVEN bus passengers were injured when their vehicle left the road and toppled down an embankment . |
| 11 | Several Sunderland fans were escorted from the ground after running on the pitch when their team scored the winning goal . |
| 12 | A transaction is said to be internalized when its administration involves the use of authority rather than voluntary bargaining between people in a market . |
| 13 | Margaret Thatcher 's distaste for royal commissions is well known , but when her government faced the most serious foreign policy misjudgement of recent years — the failure to predict and forestall the Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands — it was time to send for Oliver Franks again . |
| 14 | ‘ Liddy , tell me , ’ she said urgently , when her maid entered the room , ‘ promise me that Sergeant Troy is n't a bad man . |
| 15 | And when her body rejected the organs brave Kelly faced death with a dignity and understanding that few adults ever achieve . |
| 16 | When her condition deteriorated the local authority decided , contrary to W. 's wishes and the opinion of the consultant attending her , to transfer her to a unit specialising in the treatment of eating disorders . |
| 17 | In nervous haste she was bending to retrieve them when her eye caught the name at the top of the first : P. Gray . |
| 18 | When her father formed the view that the car he and her mother had bought her for her eighteenth birthday was more roadworthy than Cara 's outwardly smart but inwardly not so clever vehicle , it was decided that they would use her regularly serviced Volkswagen Polo for the trip . |
| 19 | When her father saw the evidence of this sin he condemned her to death . |
| 20 | For many years she delivered the mail when her mother ran the post office . |
| 21 | Social work came naturally to an intelligent unmarried Edwardian middle-class young woman , especially when her mother visited the local workhouse once a week for half a century and when her elder sister Olive was the warden of the Lady Margaret Hall settlement in Lambeth . |
| 22 | " D'ye no' ken , " he said at length , " that ye get — leave when yer wife has the wean ? " |
| 23 | When his coach drove the roads , they scuttled out of his way into the ditches like rats ! ’ |
| 24 | When his telephone rings the call could be from anywhere — London , New York , Tokyo , Zurich or Frankfurt calling downtown Annan , Scotland . |
| 25 | She felt as a nervous duellist must feel when his challenger fails the appointment — angry , braver in the aftermath than in the apprehension , her stomach slightly queasy with unassimilated dread . |
| 26 | Thus he was a supernumerary stoker on a tramp steamer ( how Thesiger hated appearing before the ambassador in Constantinople in his flannels when His Excellency cabled the boat with an invitation ) . |
| 27 | The testator institutes an heir charged with a trust to make over the estate when his son reaches the age of sixteen . |
| 28 | As Henry turned away and walked down the room Reginald bellowed with laughter ; and when his brother reached the door he shouted , ‘ Happy Christmas ! |
| 29 | Richard Fish , 24 , told from his hospital bed last night how he fractured his spine in three places when his bid to equal the world canoe free-fall record for a second time went ‘ horribly wrong . ’ |
| 30 | Light though his touch was , she found it infinitely exciting and when his fingertip reached the centre of her lips , she opened them and felt his finger on her tongue . |