Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb past] [that] there " in BNC.

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1 As I walked out to the front of Wolverhampton station I did wonder a little when I noticed that there was a regular service train on the monitor , due to leave at 1822 .
2 He went on to emphasise the importance of the national veto and said : ’ When I urged that there should be democratic control , I had in mind that Ministers are the representatives of their Governments and they are the ones who take the decisions .
3 But when I mentioned that there was a legendary tunnel that ran from the battlements of Beaufort down through the sheer rock to the bottom of the Litani gorge , they leapt to their feet and bounded up one of the staircases .
4 Fernando Serra had instructed him to instruct her when she arrived that there was no room at the inn !
5 So she was very cross when she found that there were no flowers to pick . ’
6 When we responded that there were many tavern-league baseball players , yet baseball is covered as a sport , just as the average rugby player should n't stop deserving , serious rugby athletes from being covered , he snapped back : ‘ Are we having this conversation so you can pitch rugby or so you can get my answers to your questions ? ’
7 Er as far as out-sourcing is concerned , when we learned that there could be two thousand jobs lost or out-sourced from British Aerospace , it was my opinion in line with those of our representatives that we ought to convene a meeting immediately of all shop stewards and representatives who would be covered er through those discussions and arrange and organize a strategy to oppose it .
8 It is not clear what Croom-Johnson J. had in mind when he said that there was a requirement of ‘ hostile intent , ’ and the observation has been doubted and explained subsequently .
9 The hon. Member for Ogmore ( Mr. Powell ) made a good point at the beginning of the debate when he said that there have been considerable difficulties in redesigning the Shops Act 1950 to meet the requirements of the 1990s .
10 If Darwin was right when he argued that there is no fundamental discontinuity between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties , and we accept , as surely we must , the general validity of the Darwinian theory of evolution and the connectedness of species , then where does morality come in ?
11 When he admitted that there were problems in the country , he attributed these to the supposed ravages of the former Shah 's rule , the war against Iraq , the Gulf war and the influx of refugees from Afghanistan and Iraq .
12 Douglas was annoyed at this arrival of Leslie 's contingent but changed his tune suddenly when he heard that there was still no sign of the enemy encampment being alarmed .
13 Everett , who had been ordered to take a rest at 98 trips , was testing aircraft at the Group Maintenance Unit when he heard that there was a spare aircraft going a-begging at his old squadron .
14 Sukarno was rebuffed when he asked that there should be a Greater Indonesia including the British territories , Malaya , Singapore and North Borneo .
15 Sydney Smith had been wrong too ; it seemed that the country was not even a healthy grave ; though , judging from Edwin 's pusillanimous letter , Smith might have been in the right when he suggested that there were three sexes — men , women and clergymen !
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