Example sentences of "[vb past] this [noun] when [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of America 's largest defense contractors made this discovery when it asked what information its top corporate and operating managers needed to do their jobs . |
| 2 | ‘ Edward made this tray when he was doing handcrafts in the bin , ’ she said . |
| 3 | and then when I got this sheet when I joined choir went , Oh yeah I remember |
| 4 | They retained this patch when they left the Division in Tunisia . |
| 5 | Leonor Fini underlined this concern when she painted her friend Leonora Carrington in a breastplate and sensible skirt , not a fetish object but a woman warrior and a ‘ true revolutionary ’ , released from cliches of femininity . |
| 6 | The ancestors of the famous American writer John dos Passos emigrated from here , and he visited this village when he came to the island in the 1950s . |
| 7 | I had an idea that if I dropped this diaper when we unloaded our bombs , it might help some mother . |
| 8 | He had often told her that it was a social disadvantage having the sort of wife he could n't take anywhere , but he dropped this line when she started appearing beside him at literary lunches and old school do 's . |
| 9 | In Capital , Volume 3 Marx noted this trend when he argued that the increasing size of enterprises made it impossible for them to be run by a single person . |
| 10 | The TUC ignored this assumption when it denied that the marriage bar was a sex issue , insisting that it was an employment question , caused entirely by the pressures arising from male unemployment . |
| 11 | The pro-Palestinian faction of the National Front expressed this view when it asserted that Zionism was an empire ‘ which menaces the whole world ’ ; Zionism was ‘ an iceberg of hidden power of which the bandit state of Israel is only the cruel tip … |
| 12 | Antony cleverly exploited this principle when he told them of Caesar 's will . |
| 13 | Fokine echoed this remark when he said ‘ every step and pose is a gesture ’ ( see page 58 ) . |
| 14 | I bought this place when I was — ’ he frowned ‘ — when I gave up motor racing . |
| 15 | I suppose my aunt performed this duty when we were back at home . |
| 16 | well yeah now , but you , you were saying this , we , we had this conversation when I 'd first got here , before any of this started to happen |
| 17 | Somehow he always had this feeling when he was with Mick . |
| 18 | I was very glad to hear that the Secretary of State , in his announcement on Tuesday , accepted this view when he said : ’ we would not wish to turn away willing and suitable volunteers ’ . |
| 19 | The Minister of State , Scottish Office , shakes his head , but he knows that the Government conceded this point when they announced that they would allow colleges to anticipate up to 10 per cent . |
| 20 | They abandoned this idea when they realised that it would mean the end of the NSDAP in Danzig . |
| 21 | Herbert Spencer , a leading nineteenth-century social theorist , crystallised this view when he wrote : ‘ The welfare of a society requires that the ethics of the Family and the ethics of the State shall be kept distinct . |
| 22 | Dr Robert South emphasized this point when he declared shortly after the Restoration that the Anglican church ‘ glories in nothing more than that she is the truest friend to kings and to kingly government of any Church in the world ’ . |