Example sentences of "[pron] when [pers pn] [was/were] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried drawing Miros himself when he was at the poly . |
| 2 | Who was tickling you when you were on the phone ? |
| 3 | She gladly gave her blood for a substantial blood transfusion , and the patient was told after-wards by the doctor , ‘ You owe the fact that you are alive today to the crossing sweeper who first detected a movement in you when you were in the mortuary and then gave her blood for you . ’ |
| 4 | Erm , cos I just thought he was guessing , you know , and he said he says , I did n't see him , he said I only saw him and pointed to this girl over the other side of the room he was standing beside you when you were in the chair . |
| 5 | Now children am I right in thinking that when Mrs came in and took some lessons with you when I was on a course that she taught you how to count up to thirty ? |
| 6 | And what 's strikin' me now , she took the child with her when she was on the game just as a draw . ’ |
| 7 | see her when she was like a . |
| 8 | Looking at his froggy face , half-submerged in the murky water , it was hard to believe that he really was anything more than an ordinary frog , and Mildred could see why no one had recognized her when she was in the same plight . |
| 9 | He posed the question whether the disadvantage of a judge speaking on matters which in one form or another — such as unfair dismissal from employment or from a trade union — might well come before him when he was on the bench was outweighed by the advantage of hearing his views or by the argument that he should not be prevented , by convention or otherwise , from speaking in Parliament on such a matter . |
| 10 | Adam phoned home and asked his mother to stop his father bothering him when he was in the middle of exams . |
| 11 | This dream I 'm reading now — I dreamt it when we were at the cottage in Cornwall . |
| 12 | what did I do ? , and I said I think I could of got it when I was in the car with uncle Reg and he , you know how mad he goes along the lanes |
| 13 | I know Amy went to see it when it was at the Palace , I 'm talking about a few years ago , |
| 14 | But it was so runny was n't it when it was in the |
| 15 | Was it when you were round the corner ? |
| 16 | You could n't , you co you could n't see them when they were on the roadside , you know on , on the whe when they moved |
| 17 | I thought I heard them when I was on the phone . |
| 18 | Well it reminds me when I was in a shop on the High Street for many years and a little boy and girl came in with a , with an Alsatian dog , a puppy . |
| 19 | The same restrictions were placed on me when I was in the southern province of China last year . |
| 20 | He died in 1942 and it is my lasting regret that after I left Oxford I did not see him again ; I still have the letters he wrote me when I was in the Sudan . |
| 21 | Remember that big sloppy jumper you knitted me when I was in the sixth form — that maroon one ? |
| 22 | The studio door slammed behind us when we were on the stairs . |
| 23 | ‘ Did humans interfere with us when we were in the Store ? ’ demanded Nisodemus . |
| 24 | They always get one hundred per cent from us , because they were there supporting us when we were in the Second Division . |