Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] be when " in BNC.
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| 1 | CONSIDERING the vast worldwide market that exists for sexual material of all kinds , it is remarkable just how bad mainstream cinema has been when it comes to portraying sexual passion . |
| 2 | A Sikh woman from Jullunder , recently arrived in Britain , described what her feelings had been when her daughter got married six years ago . |
| 3 | He was older now than Mozart had been when he died . |
| 4 | She remembered how disagreeable Mary had been when she first arrived . |
| 5 | It hit me just how right Anne had been when she said that teaching was the only job I knew — and how horribly ill-equipped I was for anything else . |
| 6 | Some Turks ruefully wondered where all the police had been when the neo-Nazis were gathering . |
| 7 | She was nineteen , the age Maria had been when she had first felt the power of Luke 's attraction , and Maria regarded her with ironic envy , wishing she could have reacted as insouciantly , her awe and admiration as impersonal as Penny 's , Luke confined to some remote pedestal along with other out-of-reach heroes , contact undreamed-of . |
| 8 | Where the problem arose was when there was no record of anything having been sent or what had been sent or anything . |
| 9 | Yeah I agree with that , if you know somebody well , especially if you know somebody well and if you work with people and you communicate with people you build up trust , and if the communication 's there and people are talking to each other and passing on information , information 's going round and round trust 'll be there , the only time trust disappears is when somebody feels somebody 's keeping something back . |