Example sentences of "[noun prp] when [pers pn] [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This event had two consequences : the German submarines stationed off Scapa Flow , with the task of harassing Jellicoe when he put to sea , were running out of fuel ; and , on the new date set for sailing — 31 May — strong winds prevented Zeppelins from reconnoitring ahead of the High Seas Fleet . |
| 2 | Did n't you hear her on Friday when she talked to us ? |
| 3 | But he felt not only a sort of guilt , but a special remorseful intimate pain , to think that he had failed Franca when she appealed to him . |
| 4 | It 's all a far cry from the last time they were at Heathrow — that was in July when they returned to Russia after a three-month holiday in Worcestershire . |
| 5 | Aye she , just , she got some more pink wool Monday when we went to town , er like like an |
| 6 | No one , least of all Disraeli when he came to power , really believed in Gerard 's prescription for the future ; but that connection between the former abbey and the great house adjacent to it , often actually constructed from its stones , continued to haunt the Victorian imagination , perhaps with a sense of unrealized possibilities . |
| 7 | Sir John Menzies was part of that , by his marriage to Atholl 's daughter , and Atholl dined and intrigued with the Lord Advocate when he went to Edinburgh for the season . |
| 8 | Dexter always irritated Blanche when he tried to be clever when she was tired . |
| 9 | It will probably haunt me like it did Walter Winterbottom when he lost to the States in 1950 . |
| 10 | He scored on his debut , against Plymouth up at The Palace on 15 October when we romped to a 6–1 win , and went on to play in every remaining match that season . |
| 11 | This was the fourth attack on her car since October when she moved to her home in Vernon Gardens , Harrowgate Hill . |
| 12 | She had n't been reading at all but had been glancing out of the window not seeing the gracious gardens that surrounded Summer Lodge , but planning ways to help Craig when he came to her . |
| 13 | The sun took its toll in August when I went to Britford Sheep Fair with my Uncle Arthur , a civil servant who used to have the whole month for holiday and returned home to learn that Ron Stanley , a schoolmate who lived in The Friary , had died from sunstroke . |
| 14 | Or he stood in for one or other of the teachers , notably Miss Gilberd when she wanted to ‘ pop home ’ , or Mr McWhirter when he failed altogether to arrive . |
| 15 | His personal nightmare began at 1.15am last Wednesday when he returned to his home in Bramingham Green , Luton . |
| 16 | Doug Robertson last saw Rabina Ali at the end of September when she flew to Karachi for a family holiday . |
| 17 | Their bodies were found by their 15 year old daughter , Stacey when she returned to their Marsh Gibbon home in February after babysitting . |
| 18 | ‘ Do I understand , ’ said Clarke when she came to the end of her story , ‘ that you had reason to believe your friend might have been the victim of a violent attack ? ’ |
| 19 | Both sides were now preparing for war , but Norfolk and Rent made another attempt at mediation in mid-December when they wrote to all the prelates asking them to attend an assembly in London to discuss the king 's failure to abide by his coronation oath and Magna Carta . |
| 20 | ‘ I like to encourage precise , analytical draughtsmanship which is best executed in pencil , ’ Norman Blamey told Julian Halsby when he talked to him recently about his teaching and approached to his own paintings |
| 21 | For example the other week , I was looking after Sir Harry Secombe when he came to the theatre . |