Example sentences of "five [noun pl] [adv] when [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was still lying on the carpet five minutes later when he left the apartment . |
| 2 | Whitton pulled ahead five minutes later when he cantered through a demoralised defence to shoot home unopposed , but it was Shakespeare ( who else ? ) who had the last word , breaking the strikers ’ monopoly with the eighth goal , 10 minutes from the end . |
| 3 | Barnes played his first game since rupturing an achilles tendon on England duty five months ago when he completed 45 minutes for Liverpool 's A-team against Tranmere Rovers at Melwood on Saturday . |
| 4 | He was still in hospital five months later when I finished my tour . |
| 5 | Er the , the only good thing to come out of these proposals is that erm that he supports the erm the appearance of the public enquiry and the sale of erm that , that erm he suggests for example that we should try the airports policy consortium , well we dealt that five years ago when we realised that Surrey and it 's surrounding areas were getting their own pressure group organised to make sure that Stansted got all of the flack got all the , got all the few other things as well . |
| 6 | Walsh — whose ‘ bad boy ’ reputation began five years ago when he received a record nine-match ban after an incident that left Shrewsbury 's David Geddis with a broken jaw — returns today for the visit of Brentford . |
| 7 | Five years ago when you married Julius , you were the wrong person for him , and you 're still the wrong person . |
| 8 | Do you think things are better now than they were five years ago when you started your help line ? |
| 9 | Water came from the taps and sat in an unnerving basin shape : the blue plastic failed to dematerialise from the world where I had been a grateful and temporary guest since the moment five years ago when I had vouchsafed in the sight of the God of men Ido . |
| 10 | ACT was a computer bureau and systems house until five years ago when it started selling an American machine called the ADDS . |
| 11 | He apologised profusely for being five years late when he opened the annual fund-raising garden party for the hospice . |
| 12 | Jane Dalgliesh had bought Larksoken Mill five years earlier when she had moved from her previous home on the Suffolk coast . |
| 13 | When 40-year-old Australian Jack Brabham won the World Championship in 1966 , he became the first man to win the title in a car manufactured by himself and it reaped the rewards of a gamble he took five years earlier when he left Cooper to develop his own Grand Prix car . |
| 14 | The engine was less than five yards away when he felt a hand shove him hard in the small of the back . |