Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] when i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were rows of cars outside when I went , and you had to take a ticket with a number when you sat down . |
| 2 | But we forgot to dispose of the discarded furnishings , and six months later when I went to spend a few days with a senior Burmese colleague , he showed me with great satisfaction his small-town church , furnished with the discarded pews , pulpit , litany desks , with the collection bags being changed according to the ecclesiastical season ! |
| 3 | This possibility was confirmed some months later when I received a letter from the mother of one of the men in Leslie 's ‘ stick , ( as a unit of paratroops dropped together from one aircraft was called ) . |
| 4 | He was still in hospital five months later when I finished my tour . |
| 5 | I find it odd that the position has so changed compared with 15 months ago when I became Secretary of State , when some Conservative Members were alleging that standards had declined and Opposition Members were denying those allegations . |
| 6 | The experiment I was doing all those months ago when I began writing this book , which I described in Chapter 2 , involved using the sugar fucose as a precursor for glycoprotein . |
| 7 | It 's been fully serviced up to 4 months ago when I bought it . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll have to ask Granny For&am to let me clean my shoes again when I get to her cottage , ’ she told herself , as she picked her way between the puddles and muddy ruts of the lane . |
| 9 | My problems began some days later when I wanted to change the video mode . |
| 10 | It was about three weeks later when I happened to notice that the pupil of this eye had dilated to such an extent that it was now noticeable to everyone . |
| 11 | I met him two or three years later when I asked if he would make me a dress for the March of Dimes , using some peony pink silk that Winston brought back from China . |
| 12 | Years later when I became a painter , many of my subjects were Biblical . |
| 13 | Years later when I became chairman of the medical missions of SPG , I realised how in mission hospitals all over the world , the same devoted healing mission was being carried on , which spoke much more eloquently of divine and human love than the preaching of less qualified friends like myself . |
| 14 | ( At the time I thought the idea was ridiculous until many years later when I attended a church in Holborn where the vicar , giving a fearsome sermon , abruptly burst into flames . |
| 15 | Later in that passage he wrote : ‘ It was n't until thirty years later when I saw her in another woman [ Elizabeth Taylor ] that I realised I had been searching for her all my life . ’ |
| 16 | Years later when I saw John Sayers of West New Houses for the last time before he unfortunately died , I mentioned that I was planning to start riding my bike again , and he was most amused . |
| 17 | The next time I used a prostitute was a couple of years later when I went with some friends to Amsterdam . |
| 18 | ‘ Childbirth ’ our local priest called it , but I did n't really understand what he was on about until several years later when I came up against the problem again . |
| 19 | I would have liked to wear it thirty years later when I travelled in the deserts of southern Arabia , but by then it had been lost . |
| 20 | Oh God , must be six possibly seven years now when I took the policy out originally I think . |
| 21 | oh I , I 'd never , I I realize now from six weeks ago when I got the damn things |
| 22 | For for fourteen er years ago when I studied erm communications at one of the things he said was the Sun paragraph would be short short of twenty words , whereas the tabloids would probably qualities they er full size papers would probably be longer , but interestingly enough the this introduction the introduction of the story about Princess Diana in the Sun is the same length as introduction about the story of Princess Diana in the Independent . |
| 23 | Ten years ago when I began researching into the role of women in trade unions , it would have been quite surprising to find such a subject included in a sociological textbook . |
| 24 | As I stood there my mind raced back to that time so many years ago when I had heard my mother say , ‘ I do n't love you , Nicky . ’ |
| 25 | Water came from the taps and sat in an unnerving basin shape : the blue plastic failed to dematerialise from the world where I had been a grateful and temporary guest since the moment five years ago when I had vouchsafed in the sight of the God of men Ido . |
| 26 | Erm very attractive building , and I think in fact ten years ago when I took that photograph . |
| 27 | They bought me three years ago when I got dropped out of Mars-U before my geology finals . |
| 28 | ‘ Twenty years ago when I got married you could only get squares with royal icing and gold stuck all over them . |
| 29 | My curiosity was first aroused some ten years ago when I heard of something being called the ‘ Freshwater Moray Eel ’ . |
| 30 | I began to worry many years ago when I heard a young artist say at a Whitechapel Art Gallery discussion , ‘ I 'm in the painting business , not the explanation business ’ . |