Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adv] when " in BNC.
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| 31 | Turner nearly became Mr Big at Barnet a couple of years ago when he fronted a consortium negotiating to buy the club from chairman Stan Flash-man . |
| 32 | The Black Hairstreak was at it 's height hundreds of years ago when this was all Royal Forest.Enthusiasts hope with the right care this King of butterflies wll once again rule the woodlands of Oxfordshire . |
| 33 | She says she also sleeps better and wakes up with a clearer head which is not the sort of image she portrayed a couple of years ago when all the pressures she was facing caused her to hit the bottle again . |
| 34 | We managed perfectly alright a couple of years ago when the buses did n't come up here , we could manage now . ’ |
| 35 | Remember a couple of weeks ago when you were taking the piss out of him for being scruffy , you told him not to come in again unless he was wearing a tie . |
| 36 | Gremlins got into our system a couple of weeks ago when we identified Tadpole Technology Inc 's retiring chairman as Bill Gilkes . |
| 37 | Some of you know Now way back a couple of weeks ago when we were doing the group seven the one that 's spelt F C L B R I A T. |
| 38 | ‘ We should have beaten them a couple of weeks ago when we finished all square and I have every faith in the boys , ’ asserts Nelson , ‘ Since then we went very close against Tipperary and given the self-belief the team now possesses I think we can give a very good account of ourselves on Sunday . ’ |
| 39 | Long jumper Yinka Idowu from Carterton who competes for the Oxford City club won her place in the team a couple of weeks ago when she won the British title at Sheffield … she only finished third in trials at the weekend but is still regarded as one of our best young athletes … |
| 40 | Long jumper Yinka Idowu from Carterton who competes for the Oxford City club won her place in the team a couple of weeks ago when she won the British title at Sheffield … she only finished third in trials at the weekend but is still regarded as one of our best young athletes … |
| 41 | if it 'd happened a couple of weeks ago when she was about I would of kept going over like she said I could do |
| 42 | I did decorating last couple of weeks ago when I was off . |
| 43 | Moore et al showed that a history of otitis media in children was associated with abnormalities of binaural processing of sounds even when their thresholds for pure tones were normal . |
| 44 | Integrity becomes a political ideal when we make the same demand of the state or community taken to be a moral agent , when we insist that the state act on a single , coherent set of principles even when its citizens are divided about what the right principles of justice and fairness really are . |
| 45 | General Sherman … has raised up an army on the four sides of Joseph just when it seemed most probable that he was about to escape … |
| 46 | This pattern of occasional rewards ( something we all experience in daily life ) will help your child to maintain a pattern of behaviour even when you are not there to give encouragement to him . |
| 47 | In my view , under this rule the court retains sufficient flexibility to enable it , when justice so requires , to admit further evidence on the application of a person found guilty of contempt of court even when the well known Ladd v. Marshall [ 1954 ] 1 W.L.R. 1489 criteria are not satisfied . |
| 48 | At this point he accepted the argument from design , and his interest would remained focused on the question of adaptation even when his faith in divine creation began to wane . |
| 49 | Keke Rosberg and Alan Jones , among others , were always in the thick of things even when they were driving what each of them calls a ‘ shit-box ’ . |
| 50 | Well they can physically do it to you with use of fists , use of hands and whatever else they 've got and they can mentally do it to you like put you in jail that or all sorts of things like when I was on sick leave , they came and lifted me . |
| 51 | In the same way , we should declare that we believe in the existence of God even when all the evidence is that such belief is absurd . |
| 52 | Rogers and Thomas moved out of Pinewood only when absolutely necessary . |
| 53 | ‘ I believe my constituents would welcome a generally tougher policy on sentencing , less frequent agreement of bail especially when opposed , and the suspension or revocation of licences for pubs and clubs where there is persistent trouble . ’ |
| 54 | I can not delineate it scientifically , and a loose and popular description is of use only when the imagination is to be amused . |
| 55 | Lee ‘ s briskness had been a last stand and she was ready to turn and walk down the five flights of stairs again when the door in front of her suddenly swung open and Lee found herself walking through the doorway . |
| 56 | ‘ There were obviously a lot of people there when it took place . |
| 57 | Such black holes could not be formed by gravitational collapse , because their masses are below the Chandrasekhar mass limit : stars of this low mass can support themselves against the force of gravity even when they have exhausted their nuclear fuel . |
| 58 | Both surveys showed that for many people poverty was a way of life even when they were in gainful employment . |
| 59 | If I tell you that Maureen actually had to give him the kiss of life twice when he caught a chill , you 'll appreciate why we went to such lengths to keep him warm . |
| 60 | The litigation involving the late ex-President Marcos of the Philippines [ see pp. 36428 ; 36893 ] suggested that such immunity did not apply to a former head of state particularly when it was specifically waived by the country from whence he had been deposed . |