I had tried to avoid thinking that as much as possible but as soon as I faced it I started to feel miserable.

My mother grew pale on hearing the news.

Soon after she became a lawyer, she wouldn't even give her old friends the time of day.

The moment she'd finished, she lay down for a nap.

She had hardly begun to read the book before someone knocked at the door.

I had no sooner left the shop than I met my teacher.

I had hardly got into the bath when the phone rang.

As soon as they realized the mayor was on his way down, his critics started coming out of the woodwork.

On the speaker's saying so, the audience burst out into laughter.

As soon as our manager got off our backs, everything started to go off without a hitch.

No sooner had I sat down and relaxed than the phone rang.

On entering a dark tunnel, we could see nothing.

On hearing the noise, my brother started to cry.

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

On taking the medicine prescribed by the doctor the temperature of the child, which was 40 degrees, dropped rapidly.

However, as soon as I saw the situation at the train station I began to regret this decision.

As soon as the product was introduced on TV, the calls for orders started pouring in.

Even though I decided to hang the laundry outside because the sun was shining, just as I was hanging them, it started to rain.

The moment the teacher left the classroom, it became quite noisy.

Because of yesterday's heavy snow, the ground is very slippery. As soon as I stepped outside, I slipped and fell on my bottom.