Example sentences of "when [pron] [adj] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it it it 's called the fog index but the thing that 's interesting about it is that I 've got , I 've got some interesting examples of fog indexes erm and you 'll get people like Churchill who sometimes made speeches and their fog index is quite small you 're going to use this you know example and they might have a fog , fog index that 's fine and what Anne and I are talking about with say something like the Telegraph or the Times or whatever , might have a fog index that people but this is because Churchill was very clear , very concise and going back to the original point about , or some of the original points about this , and I was mak raising these issues earlier this evening one of the great sadnesses that I have is that , is that when I first went into journalism the tabloids as we call them were incredibly well written beautifully styled , well researched and okay they might have been punchier and shorter and everything else , compared to the turning up the er the , the Times or whatever , but they were well written and you might have had , if you can put the fog index test , test on it you might have had a fog index of say six or seven compared to eleven on the Telegraph story , but it was still full of clarity like to read . |
| 2 | When I first went to Dent , before the war , I arrived at dusk , hungry and footsore after walking all day . |
| 3 | During the War , we were kept , my mother and I , in a Japanese prison camp , which was n't much fun at the time , but won me an awestruck admiration from the other boys when I first went to school . |
| 4 | When I first went to work , I went and joined the union , there was n't one in the factory I was working in and so I went to the nearest er trade union office and joined . |
| 5 | when I first went to Weightwatchers . |
| 6 | When I first went to St Aidans the Geography rooms were in annexes . |
| 7 | When I first went to Holloway , I was frightened by the look of the screws : some are fat and tall . |
| 8 | When I first came across Szasz 's dictum , ‘ Mental illness is a self-enhancing deception , self-promoting strategy ’ , I considered it to be a harsh judgement on a suffering fellow-creature . |
| 9 | When I first came across Ritwik Ghatak 's films about ten years ago , I was puzzled . |
| 10 | ‘ You helped me buy the land for the new town when I first came to Haiti . |
| 11 | WHEN I FIRST came to New Zealand in May 1991 , I was unaware of the profound effect the country would have upon me . |
| 12 | When I first came to New York even a traffic jam was interesting . |
| 13 | When I first came to England with your father , I was shocked at the women 's laziness here . |
| 14 | When I first came to Shieldaig , I walked the twelve miles from Lochcarron in the south , on the only road giving access to the village , a road badly rutted and offering no invitation to wheels and , indeed , no vehicles passed me . |
| 15 | In seventy one when I first came to Westminster , I was introduced to pairing . |
| 16 | When I first came to Slumptown which is twenty-one years ago , this street was one of the quietest streets in Slumptown . |
| 17 | When I first came to Tioman 10 years ago , the hotel was an intimate place of 70 rooms . |
| 18 | ‘ When I first come to Paris in 1979 I am desperately lonely . |
| 19 | When I first played through Rattle 's Daphnis , the levels were set with a degree of concern for the neighbours , I felt that here was an example of his penchant for pianissimos on the threshold of audibility getting the better of him . |
| 20 | When I first played in England in 1968 , it was with a guy called Arthur Brown And His Crazy World . |
| 21 | ‘ I remember that when I first got to Vogue , it was all the old school . |
| 22 | The people who were on the radio when I first got into listening were really fine singers , people like Perry Como , Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby , but good as they were , they did n't inspire me to be like them . |
| 23 | When I first applied for part time training in September 1984 I was interviewed within two weeks of the birth of my first child . |
| 24 | However , this is not always easy to achieve , as I found out when I first returned to work in 1977 after my degree course . |
| 25 | When I first moved to Wallingford I was told by a local resident ( in no uncertain terms ) what would happen to me if did n't continue with the tradition of putting a Christmas Tree on the silo top . |
| 26 | ‘ When I first moved to LA , I still had this idea of swinging glamour — to be a woman in control but sexy and fun . |
| 27 | ‘ When I first moved to LA , I still had this idea of swinging glamour . |
| 28 | When I first moved to Hackney in London 's East End as a medical student in 1971 I saw the graffito : ‘ HACKNEY — AN ASYLUM WITHOUT WALLS ’ . |
| 29 | When I first moved from India ( where I was born ) to England , I obviously had a great tan , and I got called ‘ Indibum ’ and all.that . |
| 30 | And so er it it was a a reasonably good wage but when I first started of course I was n't on piece rate , you used to get a penny an hour , when we worked Saturday morning got about six and sixpence a week . |