Example sentences of "[that] when [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was slightly deaf and it was only natural that when Jane asked him if he liked Dylan Thomas , he replied : ‘ Gin and tonic ? |
| 2 | Though she still knew she was obscurely to blame , that when Tommaso lifted her onto the bar stool with his big hands which almost met under her rib cage , the current was live in the air around them , and Rosa would not have liked it . |
| 3 | Tonight , Coney Hill hospital defended the way the incident was handled , saying that when Gooding disappeared they pursued their missing persons policy … informing those that needed to know . |
| 4 | What was now essential , he believed , was the development and promotion of the principles which would enable democratic forces throughout Europe to ensure that when peace returned it was built on secure foundations . |
| 5 | But in his lordship 's day , that room was regularly required , as was the long table that occupied it , to seat thirty or more guests for dinner ; in fact , the banqueting hall is so spacious that when necessity demanded it , further tables were added to the existing one to enable almost fifty to be seated . |
| 6 | Witnesses said that when Beck assaulted them he said this was what they wanted . |
| 7 | Dad 's first name was George , and he had already made it clear on several occasions that when Granpa retired he had no intention of taking over from him as he did n't want to leave his mates on the docks . |
| 8 | So that when evening came they were both tired , not only from physical effort but from sheer exposure to the elements — Fen perhaps most of all , because from time to time he had insisted that Robbie go below . |
| 9 | Magistrates at Eastleigh , Hants , heard that when police stopped him he asked : ‘ Where am I ? ’ |
| 10 | So that when John suggested they should spend Sunday ‘ watching the fun ’ down at the Railway Office , it did not seem at all out of key . |
| 11 | We had it organised so that when people contacted us in the first instance , we gave them a menu of mods that we would do , depending on what the customer wanted . |
| 12 | It had rained heavily during the night — a sudden downpour which had filled the gutters and drains which supplied the city 's water catchment system — so that when dawn broke it could be seen that many of the drapes and festoons over archways and down the faces of stands and platforms had been torn from the frames by the weight of the water which had soaked them . |