Example sentences of "[vb past] be when [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no door between the kitchens and the alley at the back , only a curtain of brown and yellow beads that clicked when there was a breeze , which was just about never because it was summer and the only time the air moved was when Zervos waved his short arms or a truck went past outside . |
| 2 | ‘ The first I heard was when Sharon came on the phone crying ‘ Our girls are dead , our girls are dead ’ . |
| 3 | I would sometimes ride on the back to go to chapel , or shopping , and the furthest I ever went was when Uncle Tommy took me to Middleton in Teesdale to see Sir Robert Fossett 's Circus . |
| 4 | Yet , according to The Times ( 7 February 1984 ) , ‘ The first most Cabinet ministers knew was when Sir Geoffrey Howe announced the decision in the Commons on January 25 . ’ |
| 5 | The only clear case where this strategy succeeded was when Thatcher introduced the Sinn Féin broadcasting ban . |