Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] [pers pn] was a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The food was not too good , nor too plentiful , so when I returned I was a lot lighter and a lot fitter . |
| 2 | ‘ When I said it was a pity Connie died , you said something about it upsetting Muldoon and Cabrillo at first . |
| 3 | When I said I was a feminist he became abrupt , as if his time was precious , and told me he could n't help me . |
| 4 | When I looked it was a pellet and that was when I knew I had been shot . |
| 5 | When I say it was a Government decision I 'm not speaking politically because whoever had 've won the last election whether it be Liberal Democrats Labour or Conservative all three parties were committed to reorganizing local government . |
| 6 | When she arrives it was a trivial matter , your day has been disrupted and you feel angry with yourself for not enquiring about why she was coming . |
| 7 | The thought swam into her mind out of nowhere and she felt vaguely guilty when she realised it was a great relief to have this excuse . |
| 8 | When she realized I was a good thief and knew how to use a knife , she got to like me . |
| 9 | and it 's a , an old fashioned music hall , more often than not well when we went it was a pantomime but the first part of the evening was an o a music hall |
| 10 | The Pushkin police officers had intended to take her to St Petersburg police station when they discovered she was a foreigner . |
| 11 | ‘ They also broke into a similar car but appear to have lost interest in it when they realised it was a used model . |
| 12 | Yet in his interview with the editors of the magazine Movie Hitchcock agreed when they suggested it was a zoom-out while the camera tracked in , the precise opposite . |
| 13 | She had a baby we she was expecting a baby and we called it P J , anyw and she said it was going to be Peter John and th anyway when it arrived it was a Pamela Jane . |
| 14 | It was some time before Wexford could decide whether it was a man or a woman and when he realised it was a woman he called out a brisk , cheerful good night so that she should not be afraid . |
| 15 | When he found I was a stranger , he explained that the houses were numbered at random ‘ in the old-fashioned way ’ . |
| 16 | First as scullery maid , then — when he found I was a vicar 's daughter — Tom put me upstairs . |