Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] [noun] when [pers pn] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The transfer of Baker , who in 1988 had resigned as Treasury Secretary in order to take over Bush 's election campaign when it was trailing badly in the polls , had been widely anticipated in the month prior to the announcement . |
| 2 | He had assisted in lifting her from the floor of Willi Zimmermann 's living room when she was blindly unconscious . |
| 3 | JOANNE Jenkins from Raloo near Larne collected the top trophy at Ballyclare 's Speech/Drama Festival when she was awarded the Audrey Robinson Rose Bowl after giving the most pleasing performance during the week-long event which ended yesterday afternoon . |
| 4 | This new prodigy , already 36th on the provisional list after only three ranking events , started playing in his mother 's snooker club when he was nine ; at 13 he made his first century and at 16 his first 147 . |
| 5 | Why was the Lotus issue put into this mo this year 's training plan when it was last year 's money ? |
| 6 | There was serious foreign interest in Esselte 's publishing division when it was first put on the market early in 1990 , and Hachette is known to have been in negotiation before an agreement with Liber was finally concluded . |
| 7 | But the strongest condemnation of the Tory rebels came from Sir Bernard Ingham , Mrs Thatcher 's press secretary when she was Prime Minister . |
| 8 | ‘ You should go take Spanish at night school , ’ he said one evening in the Airds ' downstairs lavatory when we were clearing up after they had gone out to dine . |