Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] in [noun] when [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was how I got remanded in custody when I was only fifteen . |
| 2 | My father , Joseph , had a brother , my uncle Elias , who went to live in America when he was young . |
| 3 | They went to live in Glasgow when he was three and his father , who was a solicitor , got taken into his father-in-law 's firm and became a partner when the old man got past it . |
| 4 | The inference which might be drawn from this analysis was that Eliot himself had conceived a homosexual passion for just such a young man and , when the article was reprinted four years after Eliot 's death , it was suggested to be Jean Verdenal , the Frenchman whom Eliot had met in Paris when he was a student there and to whom , after his death in the First World War , he dedicated Prufrock and Other Observations . |
| 5 | Maggie thought of John McNair whom Laura had met in Glasgow when she 'd gone to work there , when she 'd decided she wanted to leave home and broaden her horizons . |
| 6 | I 'm not usually stuck for words , ’ she went on , thinking of the successful extempore speeches she had made in court when her clients had led her into all sorts of impossible positions . |
| 7 | It was n't what Peter had had in mind when he had thought of the picnic . |
| 8 | The local authority appealed against the orders and sought an interim care order on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had erred in law when they had made the order preventing the parents from having contact with each other as contact between adults was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibilities towards his child and thus fell outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; ( 2 ) there had been no application for a section 8 order and before exercising powers under section 10(1) ( b ) of the Act of 1989 the justices should have invited the parties to make representations , and the failure to do so was a material irregularity ; ( 3 ) the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact and there were grounds for believing that the children would suffer harm , had been plainly wrong in refusing to make the interim care order in respect of both children in that they had failed to have regard to the facts that both parents had colluded over injuries to D. , the mother had lied when she had stated that there had been no contact with the father , the father had been in breach of a bail order there had been a violent incident on 23 November 1991 which had involved both parents , the mother had refused to be accommodated with the children in a mother and baby home , and the mother had changed her mind about the adoption of R. ; and ( 4 ) in all the circumstances the order which would have been in the best interests of the children and which the justices should have made was an interim care order . |
| 9 | Sustad is phlegmatic and observes the irony that Bettembourg had remained in Chamonix when he had intended accompanying the expedition . |
| 10 | I thought things had changed in Sweden when I was able to use the same team in successive games for the first time in six years . |