Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So there was always trouble when someone presented him with a bill . |
| 2 | She liked the sizzling sound of the water as it hit the stones when someone threw it from the bucket . |
| 3 | As Brian Clough told me when I met him on the top of the Little Elm bus earlier this season — we were both going to check out Little Elm Intaflora 's young Dutch forward , Kylie Van Der Graaf — ‘ Sadly , young man , football is like a football . ’ |
| 4 | These things I gathered from what Dorothy 's husband Leo told me when I met him in the chemist 's shop one day . |
| 5 | That was when I met you for the first time , last week , at the consciousness-raising group that we started at the women 's centre a few weeks ago . |
| 6 | Nothing much else happened , as far as I recall … but then I did n't visit the cottage much , not before that morning when I met you in the garden . |
| 7 | I knew when I saw her in the graveyard reading the writing . |
| 8 | One day when I saw him in the village , he said , ‘ I hear I 've got a son , Ellen , whose name 's Linton ! |
| 9 | I was window-shopping across the road at Tower Records ( good selection , but top price ) when I saw him in the reflection . |
| 10 | ‘ I could hardly believe my eyes when I saw you in the market . |
| 11 | ‘ The closest I ever got to any man was when I had him in the sights of the rifle and I never missed . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Twenty-four years old he was when I found him in the provost 's prison in Paris , and paid his fine to get him for my own , him and that foster-brother of his whom you know well . ’ |
| 13 | I was afraid long ago , when I hit him in the mouth with that heavy glove , that I might kill him one day . |
| 14 | I was still gagging up the last few dregs when somebody punched me on the cheek , sending the other side of my head banging against the metal wall of the shelter . |
| 15 | ‘ We also want to know exactly how Garland spent his time from Saturday afternoon when his father died to last night when somebody shot him on the wharf . |
| 16 | I remember when she took us to the pantomime in town , and we saved up all our sweets for three weeks to give her as a present . |
| 17 | She stood five feet six tall in her high-heeled shoes , her long hair was dark , and she was the kind of thirty-five-year-old woman men turned to look at when she passed them in the street . |
| 18 | She was floating — in the same way as the keys did n't when she released them on the Moon . |
| 19 | I was painting the back of the house one Saturday , when she shook me off the ladder , I got a compound fracture on me left leg . |
| 20 | Jimmy last met the Queen in 1979 when she presented him with the OBE. |
| 21 | ‘ Do n't ! ’ groaned Tim when she teased him with the label . |
| 22 | ‘ Is all well ? ’ he asked when she joined him at a small table in a corner of the crowded bar . |
| 23 | " I saw it in your eyes the other day when you warned me about the marchioness . |
| 24 | I expect that 's what he thought he was going to when you grabbed him at the end of the war . |
| 25 | But you are speaking of an occasion some days ago , when we recovered him after an attempt at escape . |
| 26 | Others we chatted with when we met them around the grounds , and some became temporary friends who asked us in for coffee or drinks , invitations which we pleasurably returned . |
| 27 | Only once did Kinnock appear out of his separate cabin in the leader 's aircraft in order to talk to reporters , and that was when he thanked them for a birthday card . |
| 28 | The most intriguing matter supplied by Gaitskell was when he consulted me about the constant leakage of the party 's National Executive minutes to the Manchester Guardian . |
| 29 | What , cast the poor remains into the Severn when he took them from the grave ? ’ |
| 30 | The one time I ever cried in school was when he blamed me with a severity that seemed to hurt him … . |