Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] when i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He was fit to be tied when I separated from Hugh , and he seems to blame me for the whole thing . |
| 2 | Perhaps my hon. Friend will be reassured when I announce to the House that we will be laying tomorrow an order to ensure that , for all indictable offences , there will be the compulsory taking of evidence by tape recording in police stations . |
| 3 | This was where the offices of the English Department and several lecture-rooms were situated when I arrived in 1957 , twenty years after Philby . |
| 4 | I can not give over any of the powers that I , as a Member of Parliament , elected by the citizens of Aldridge-Brownhills — and each of us elected by our respective constituents — was given when I came to this Parliament . |
| 5 | I have to report , though , that it was here my own trust in the French as the most obdurately literate of all nations was dented when I went into a bookshop and asked if they had a copy of the Song of Roland . |