Vocabulary: idioms (taking risks)

EX.77 Choose the best time linker to complete the sentences.
1 Kate phoned the moment / while you were having a bath.
2 The moment / While I found the bag, I phoned the police.
3 I'd had three different job offers while / by the time I left my old job.
4 While / As soon as they met, they fell in love.
5 As / By the time I was driving to Cornwall, the countryside became more beautiful and green.


EX.78 Read the two articles. Find and correct six mistakes with time linkers. More than one answer is possible.
A
A couple decided to go away for the weekend in their motor home. By the time they were taking a walk, a thief paid them a visit. While they got back, they noticed that something was wrong, so they took a look around. They found a man in the bushes being violently sick. It appeared that the thief had tried to steal petrol from the motor home using suction and a plastic tube. Unfortunately, he'd connected the tube to the toilet tank instead of the petrol tank. As soon as the police arrived, the ambulance had already taken the thief away.
B
Two ten-year-old girls were seriously reprimanded by the police yesterday for playing tricks on customers of the Garden Cafe in Swansea. The girls would wait while customers ate their sandwiches. While they threw away the plastic boxes the sandwiches came in, the girls would secretly refill them with 'new' sandwiches made of grass, leaves and flowers. The two would then go into the cafe and by the time the staff was not looking, they would put the 'new' sandwiches back on the cool shelves. The girls would then go back outside and watch as customers ate their sandwiches. Kate Waters and Pia Fine said they were sorry and hadn't wanted to hurt anybody. They confessed, 'It was so funny to watch the faces of people as they tried the sandwiches. One man had eaten half a sandwich the moment he noticed he was eating grass.