Example sentences of "[adj] when [pers pn] started " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was this when you started ? |
| 2 | Shapes began to form as the colours settled into patterns , but the shapes were still indistinct when they started to move violently . |
| 3 | I was twelve years old when I started my periods . |
| 4 | I was eleven years old when I started playing golf . |
| 5 | Les Dennis has been presenting ITV 's top game show for seven years and was just 14 years old when he started out on a career in showbusiness . |
| 6 | Les Dennis has been presenting ITV 's top game show for seven years and was just 14 years old when he started out on a career in show business . |
| 7 | Well I was er seventy six when I started learning it |
| 8 | Further argument was profitless when he started shuffling his notes for the judgment which he would , in almost every case , deliver without hesitation or correction as soon as counsel sat down . |
| 9 | Oh yes , ‘ Roland ’ — that is how we always knew him , and I was mightily confused when he started signing his Christmas cards ‘ Jim ’ ! |
| 10 | Frank Jessop was in his late 60's when he started needing to get up three or four times each night to pass urine , and he was referred to his local hospital 's urology department . |
| 11 | I had been very naive when we started out in Rotherham and it came as a shock to me to realize that not everyone can see the justness of a just cause . |
| 12 | The next morning unslept I was up at five but because of rain it was much later when we started the six kilometres ' trail to the larger lake on the reserve . |
| 13 | I was sure when I started my research that I would be able to say that governments were greedy and liked to sell lots of arms to countries who were very poor and who only needed basic things like food and shelter . |
| 14 | Well she was n't very well when she started |
| 15 | They had come to help Mary dress but there was no room at all when they started busying themselves . |
| 16 | However , we soon stopped smiling when it started to rain and the wind got up ; the sealant , which had n't yet hardened , started to dilute , and one by one the secondary glazing panels were blown in. the wind started to blow bubbles in the gooey sealant , which then floated around the room , only to burst and leave a sticky mess on the carpets and furniture . |
| 17 | FIGURE 2 It soon became apparent when I started working on this quick landscape sketch that the Polychromos Pastels are equally well suited to a more painterly method of handling too |
| 18 | I 'll be telling most some of the tales about that time , and then the other tales will be about what happened to me in sixty nine when I started up , because the changing legislation s more or less said that if you had a vehicle of thirty hundredweight or less you could move an er wh whoever 's furniture you liked anywhere you wanted to . |
| 19 | No and he 'll get more used to it , I thought tonight was I was I pushing it too far when he started |
| 20 | At first when I started sleeping with Michael , I thought , there 's no reason to say no . |
| 21 | She 's had a lot of ups and downs , Christmas , New Year 's Eve night Rudy and I went to a party , Pam 's daughter 's party , it 's her eighteenth and at quarter to twelve when they started getting ready to ring the chimes in , at midnight Wendy said I ca n't stay Joy I 'm gon na have to go I said oh alright then , I said I see you alright , are you alright ? |
| 22 | The only difference between them was that the bloke on the allotment was probably more careful when he prepared the soil , gentler when he started digging . |
| 23 | Mr B. P. reported that he had already lost 3 stone some time before but had stuck at 15 stone and was pleased when he started to lose again . |
| 24 | The strategy adopted was to begin with the best analysed corpus available when we started work ( Alvar Ellegard 's 128,000 word analysed subset of the Brown Corpus of American English ) , convert it into a format that could be used in practice , and improve and extend it in various ways . |
| 25 | They were fairly enthusiastic when they started off . |
| 26 | We were so excited when they started paying expenses but I never dreamt the sport would come on like it has . ’ |
| 27 | Yeah , he 's , he 's into ev oh it must 've been about six or eight weeks ago he started saying a couple of things and I thought oh he 's coming now , but it stopped I think I got excited when he started saying dark , but that 's as far as it got , int it ? |
| 28 | He 's probably coming up to about forty six now but he , he was quite young when he started off with Traidcraft and everything . |
| 29 | Preston had been quite keen when he started the project but now he felt a bit shamefaced about it . |
| 30 | There was only two when we started here . |