Example sentences of "when [noun prp] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Ginger Rogers swept around in yards of chiffon , spangles and ostrich feathers , Audrey Hepburn looked like a walking wedding cake in My Fair Lady and Liz was practically gold-plated in Cleopatra , it was well-nigh impossible for the rest of us to copy the look . |
| 2 | PAINFUL memories were revived for one Middlesbrough player when Lennie Lawrence welcomed his latest recruit this week . |
| 3 | Chang had got his start when Dan Merkel went into cinema . |
| 4 | Patrick started to shake his head , when Dan Brady leaned over and glared at him . |
| 5 | Comrades however had the last say when Dean Gordon grabbed a consolation goal for them on the stroke of full time . |
| 6 | The seal for an uncompromising war of attrition was set in the opening two minutes , when Spurs midfielder David Howells sent David Hillier tumbling and Ray Parlour , Arsenal 's best player , was denied an obvious penalty when Dean Austin tripped him . |
| 7 | Hampshire think they may lose up to a quarter of their membership when Dean Park goes after this season . |
| 8 | They went one down , when Ian Helliwell struck from a free kick . |
| 9 | Though Norwich reached the FA Cup semi-final at Villa Park in 1989 , they were left with only three survivors from the team which lost to Everton when Ian Crook withdrew yesterday . |
| 10 | When Ian MacGregor became chairman of the NCB in September 1983 , there was also a stock-pile of 56 million tonnes of coal — a large and solid testimony to years of over-production . |
| 11 | Others had tried the same demolition job when Ian Hislop took over at Private Eye , but the continued involvement of icons Ingrams and Cook helped him survive . |
| 12 | When Ian Smith made his Unilateral Declaration of Independence she was deeply troubled . |
| 13 | When Ian Smith proclaimed UDI in November 1965 this was too much . |
| 14 | : WHEN Ian Smith caught Graham Gooch off the bowling of Danny Morrison in the first Test match last winter he broke a New Zealand wicketkeeping record which had stood for 45 years . |
| 15 | With Skerrett and his impressive front-row partner John Hamer now breaking almost unopposed , Bradford looked safe when Ian Wilkinson scored a third try . |
| 16 | ‘ Without doubt , things started to turn for Palace when Ian Wright left to join Arsenal in September of last year . |
| 17 | A confrontation between two of the game 's biggest hitters is assured when Ian Woosnam pipped in a play-off for the Honda Open sets off in the company of the awesome former US PGA champion John Daly and another top performer , Payne Stewart . |
| 18 | WHEN Ian McGeechan made his oft-quoted remark in Australia last summer that David Sole was ‘ a player 10 years ahead of his time ’ , the Lions ' coach neatly summed up the collective view of the touring party . |
| 19 | Teesside led after the foursomes 31/2 , 21/2 and the match was squared when Ian Liddle lost the top singles to Bradford 's match play champion Mark Cook . |
| 20 | That is why when Ian Greig became captain of Surrey I knew the county would flourish . |
| 21 | When Ian Durrant returned from three years on the scrapheap with a crippling knee injury , Graeme Souness said it was like signing a Pounds 3 million star . |
| 22 | When Ian Paisley calls the Pope ‘ the Antichrist ’ , he is not just picking a choice term of abuse from the Bible , but referring back to what was once the mainstream Protestant and Anglican belief that the papacy does play one of the most important parts in sacred history and the Romans are absolutely mistaken about which . |
| 23 | Just on the quarter hour mark , Armagh City were again denied the opening when Jason Murtagh saw his 15-yard volley brilliantly saved by Mullan in the Cookstown goals . |
| 24 | Coleraine reduced the arrears when Cahal Deery shot home from an angle , but the home side 's two-goal advantage was soon restored when Jason Gilmore turned inside the box to fire into the next . |
| 25 | The extraordinary background of this veiled beauty is at first revealed only in hints and large generalisations as Ayesha woos Leo Vincey as her reincarnated lover , and the story was not extended significantly until thirty-six years later when Rider Haggard indulged his passion for Ancient Egypt and for the occult by giving Ayesha a family and a local habitation in Wisdom 's Daughter . |
| 26 | When Newham Members raise the problem with social security Ministers , they are given the official answer that it is caused by the number of Somali refugees . |
| 27 | There would be many more to come when Roger Corman got into his stride in the early Sixties turning out back-to-back movies , using the same set and actors in two weeks or less , with self-imposed budgets of under $30,000 . |
| 28 | When Victoria Gillick campaigned to prevent girls under sixteen getting contraceptive advice without their parents ' consent , she created a lot of confusion , and although she was ultimately unsuccessful , many girls still assume that they can not get the Pill or any other form of contraception , such as the cap or diaphragm , until this age . |
| 29 | When Patrick Forbes proffered such divisions in his excellent work Champagne it had no bearing on the regulations . |
| 30 | Mountbatten 's task was not simplified when General MacArthur saddled him with the additional responsibility of taking over Indonesia and Indo-China , previously within the American sphere . |