Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [adj] when it " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was said to be 700 years old when it fell in 1896 . |
| 2 | Bartolini also admitted : ‘ We were a little bit worried when it happened and , of course , he was a little bit scared . |
| 3 | ‘ Roger , Roger , is n't the human mind ingenious when it comes to plotting the destruction of another being ? |
| 4 | Its simplistic political viewpoint may have correctly reflected attitudes at the time it was set ; but it provided a target for the anti-war movement and provoked demonstrations in many cities world-wide when it was shown . |
| 5 | Moreover it saved us as a family from being caught in the 1914 — 18 war as my sister and I were eighteen and sixteen years old when it finished and almost all our contemporary male cousins were killed . |
| 6 | As expected on the basis of the hypothesis proposed above , that the relationship between maternal age and chances of child survival may depend upon the status of the mortality transition , it was found that , in those regions where overall infant mortality is relatively low ( under 100 per 1,000 live births ) , the likelihood that an infant will survive until its first birthday is greatest if the child 's mother was 20 to 29 years old when it was born . |
| 7 | A fire blazed in a huge hearth beneath an oak lintel which , to judge by its thickness , must have come from a tree already at least a hundred years old when it was felled to help build this ancient building . |