Example sentences of "were [verb] in [art] [noun] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | Milton 's ideas , for instance , were developed in an age when the state exercised enormous controls over intellectual and cultural life . |
| 2 | MORE than 50 children were swimming in a pool when deadly clouds of chlorine gas bubbled up through the water . |
| 3 | Two letters were lying in the hall when Loretta got up on Saturday . |
| 4 | Sergeants Camb and Martin were gossiping in the foyer when he emerged from the lift . |
| 5 | I think at the end it must come down to two things ; one basically a change in attitude — we have to come to recognise that we live in a very , very technological society , that most of us were born before man walked on the moon , but the kids in school were born in an age when man had walked on the moon ten years ago and they live in a world which is very scientific , and we have to recognise that — and the other one is practical sense , I think , where we really have to look seriously to in-service training of teachers , a ) and b ) we have to look carefully at the way we train teachers now . |
| 6 | I think at the end it must come down to two things ; one basically a change in attitude — we have to come to recognise that we live in a very , very technological society , that most of us were born before man walked on the moon , but the kids in school were born in an age when man had walked on the moon ten years ago and they live in a world which is very scientific , and we have to recognise that — and the other one is practical sense , I think , where we really have to look seriously to in-service training of teachers , a ) and b ) we have to look carefully at the way we train teachers now . |
| 7 | There has been criticism of my buying but most were hired in a crisis when I was down to eight fit men . |
| 8 | The first stars were glowing in the sky when Anabelle and Uncle Alfred reached the Lord Mayors house . |
| 9 | THEY were standing in the aisles when the Lord Chief Justice designate officially opened the Teesside Combined Court Centre yesterday . |
| 10 | I went for a midnight walk last February — it was snowing , I just got the urge , it was like a fairy tale , clean and soft — and they were standing in the hall when I got back , eyes frantic , fingers pointing , accusing me of — what ? |
| 11 | At midday , we were standing in the stern when a voice hailed us from an upper deck . |
| 12 | Just three of the 16-strong team — which included four outside contractors — were allowed in the room when the Queen actually recorded her speech . |
| 13 | Miss Maton died in 1923 and about a year later I remember that my friends and I were playing in the street when there was a sudden shout from a young man . |
| 14 | Her parents were killed in an accident when she was very young , and she has been brought up at the château , almost as the daughter of the house . |
| 15 | In Pennsylvania in 1975 , two seamen were working in an office when another sailor appeared in the office and aimed a shot at one seaman 's head and fled . |
| 16 | So you can , so you got a promotion and you were working in the Navy when you came |
| 17 | The students , all Hindus from colleges of the neighbouring states of Uttar Pradesh and Haryana , had come to Patiala for a students ' festival and were sleeping in a dormitory when they were attacked yesterday . |