Example sentences of "[was/were] when [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Koppes comments on the launch of the Russian Sputnik : ‘ JPL personnel could remember years later where they were when they heard the news , what they first thought , and what they did . ’ |
| 2 | Although the England Under-19s , touring Pakistan last winter , had some cause to question just how young their opponents were when they discovered the ease with which birth certificates could be bought locally for just £2 . |
| 3 | In a smaller stadium they will not be so passionate as they were when they beat the Americans in the final . ’ |
| 4 | Evidence shows that expected productivity in unit labour costs of British industry are more competitive now than they were when we entered the ERM . |
| 5 | ‘ The most nerve-wracking moment , ’ recalls Nicola Wright , ‘ was when we discovered the live First World War German mortar bomb , which cousin Charles had brought home as a souvenir . ’ |
| 6 | Jim Bob : ‘ The only big one was when we played the NME party ( back in 1990 — Ed ) , because we had such a big fight . |
| 7 | I knew she was just as scared as I was when we heard the cat on the stairs . |
| 8 | One night I remember clearly was when we lost an aircraft and crew at Bourn , not over Germany but back on our own air field , which made it worse . |
| 9 | That was when they heard the sound of breaking glass . |
| 10 | That was when they use a coule of coats for the goalposts and used a cabbage wrapped up in pigs bladder for a ball was nt it ? |
| 11 | Thursdays , half past five until six o'clock , was when they had the use of Mrs Parvis 's bathroom and as much warm water as trickled from the gas geyser into the tub . |
| 12 | That was when they had the argument . |
| 13 | I know people imagined I was much older than I was when they saw the first film because some newspapers referred to me as ‘ the Old Lady of the Dales ’ . |
| 14 | The most exaggerated example of this ( it was the dangerous tendency which Jack himself labelled the ‘ Inner Ring ’ ) was when they attended a production of Hamlet at the New Theatre in Oxford , produced — as were so many great Oxford University Dramatic Society productions in the middle years of this century — by Nevill Coghill . |
| 15 | The only thing that rang a bell for Portland was when they announced the defence cuts — and they all cheered . ’ |
| 16 | Maybe hon. Members will know who it was when they hear the next part . |
| 17 | Jus ’ try ter fink where yer was when they turned the ware'ouse over , ’ Danny prompted him . |
| 18 | This was when they found the box . |
| 19 | This was when somebody opened the door to the inner sanctum where the support band was playing . |
| 20 | One of the few occasions that United Biscuits ever took a hasty decision was when it bought a company in Spain at a time when it felt under pressure to expand into Europe . |
| 21 | The only time that Ray Doyle found his composure slipping was when he made the mistake of glancing over his right shoulder , to where the Foreign Office boys were sitting . |
| 22 | You know how pissed off Kolchinsky was when he got the bill the last time you did that . ’ |
| 23 | The next move was to bring forward the draft of the new constitution : the first that the Secretary of State knew of this was when he read a report in The Times ( 20 May ) headed ‘ A Republic of Burma ’ . |
| 24 | It was when he reached the ground floor and was only a few paces from the door leading to the basement that things started to go wrong . |
| 25 | Sometimes it worked , sometimes they simply shouted abuse , but his greatest success was when he addressed the Welsh League of Youth Eisteddfod at Aberystwyth in Welsh , having studied the language for just six weeks . |
| 26 | That was when he saw the thin figure jogging towards him in the gloom , and heard the roar of engines come up fast behind him . |
| 27 | He is 16 — around the age Roy was when he became a star — and he plays for the Melchester youth team . |
| 28 | Walters ' most memorable moment in a Liverpool shirt was when he score the winner in the 3-0 UEFA Cup win against Auxerre last season , reversing a similar deficit as they face tonight . |
| 29 | My last recollection of him at Kelham was when he gave a reading of his poetry . |
| 30 | The only moment when he seemed ill at ease was when I raised the question of the forced repatriation to Russia at the end of the war of thousands of White Russian and Cossack soldiers from camps in northern Italy and Yugoslavia . |