Example sentences of "that when [pers pn] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | They had handcuffs on me and I 've still got marks on my hands — you can see — where the handcuffs were put on so tight that when I got to the station they could n't get them off me . |
| 32 | I confess that when I came into the room more than twenty years — slipped away . ’ |
| 33 | Er I think I learnt that when I went to the meeting of the South East Croquet Federation earlier in the year . |
| 34 | I mean , I keep hearing that when I come into the environmental health department , that , just that people are interested in what Oxford are doing . |
| 35 | Therefore , it was not surprising that when I intervened on the hon. Member for Newham , North-East he was a little coy about referring to his party 's record on unemployment . |
| 36 | It was a big disappointment to me that when I applied for the news editor 's job , I did n't get it . |
| 37 | I discovered that when I reported to the House that hundreds of young people in the London borough of Newham had no jobs or YT places . |
| 38 | After a couple of days in his new home Skipper was much more relaxed ; he no longer jumped at every sound and soon learned that when I arrived on the yard in the morning , it meant food . |
| 39 | All of which explained that when I arrived at the BMC 's International Meet halfway through the week , the climbers that drifted into breakfast that morning looked like they 'd been on the receiving end of a very nasty artillery barrage . |
| 40 | I was taught that when I worked in the grocery warehouse . |
| 41 | A vicar in Battersea told me the other day that when he went to the church festival of Christmas at the local primary school — one of the schools within his parish — there was plenty of Father Christmas and jingle bells , but not one reference to Jesus . |
| 42 | Even his fond parents do n't call him that when he rampages through the flat creating mayhem , and Joyce was recently heard to declare that she 'd rather do Rob 's tax returns than look after the baby . |
| 43 | She allowed him to lead her back to the living-room , her defences momentarily lapsed so that when he paused on the threshold to slide an arm around her waist and draw her into his embrace she was too shocked to remonstrate . |
| 44 | He is frightened that when he gets into the corridor he will start crying like the twelve-year-old boy . |
| 45 | He says that when he got into the room the double bed was alight , he picked up the babies and got them out as quickly as he could . |
| 46 | The Earl of Shrewsbury once told me that when he walked in the park , Wolsey would suffer no one to come within bowshot of him . |
| 47 | He noted gloomily that when he dined with the King in May the Simpsons were both present , and that when another semi-political dinner party was given in July Mrs Simpson was announced in the Court Circular as being present alone without her husband . |
| 48 | Mr Templeton said that when he arrived at the fire after 10pm , he had spoken to a man who was being treated for injuries in an ambulance . |
| 49 | ‘ That 's a comfortable place to sleep , ’ he thought , and he was so tired after his long , disappointing day at the fair that when he climbed into the cart , he fell asleep immediately . |
| 50 | Said I 've been sorting the notes out , I 've put them in order back in , so that when he comes to the window all that the office staff got ta do is look through , like we was told to do |
| 51 | I wa I was talking to erm Mr the other day and he was saying that when he started at the Co-op it was a , a very , very good place to work . |
| 52 | On the other hand , it might he argued that when he moves from the concept of impersonal truth to the concept of a personal God , he is distinguishing , in traditional Advaitin fashion , between higher and lower levels of truth or reality . |
| 53 | Benny did n't know that Peggy Pine was an old friend of Mother Francis , that they had been girls years ago and that when she came to the convent she called Mother Francis Bunty . |
| 54 | I remember that when she came to the House she was , like her leader , a passionate supporter of CND . |
| 55 | She could taste blood now on her lips where her own teeth had bitten them , could see blood flecking her vision , hear it pounding in her ears as she ran , propelled by the first hot rush of her panic so that when she collided with the rough corner of a market stall she did not feel it ; when she stumbled again and scrambled to her feet she was unaware of her grazed hands and knees ; heedless of brewers ' drays , the hooves of heavy horses ; the outrage of the passers-by she pushed aside ; the woman with the heavy market basket she knocked over . |
| 56 | The bad thing was that when she woke in the morning she could remember nothing about it . |
| 57 | I said to Ted : ‘ We 'll say that when she went for the tram , the dog run after her . ’ |
| 58 | A third , a small blonde , always wore huge , baggy clothes and men 's hoots , saying she wanted to look aggressive , to get away from the things that being small and blonde are supposed to mean , and that when she walked down the street wearing her monkey boots and trench coat she felt great , confident and striding , and daring anyone to make a comment . |
| 59 | In the imperfect world , where things get misunderstood , a woman has to realise that when she returns from the kitchen with a toasted sandwich and her man barks , ‘ I said cheese and tomato , not just cheese ! ’ he is probably not so much worried about his stomach as about her hearing . |