Example sentences of "when [pers pn] leave the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I worked for Department One from 1943 until 1957 when I left the company .
2 I was sixty one you see when I left the shop .
3 I leave it behind when I leave the stage .
4 I have to make decisions every second about when I leave the rhythm guitar part to play the melody and how I balance between switching the pickup selection , reach over , mute the strings and play .
5 There are many times when I leave the house and go up to the range when I really do n't want to .
6 She would do her job — and do it well right until the very day when she left the company .
7 The first sign that Harriet had not lost her wild instincts came in her third year , when she left the house and started to go off hunting at night .
8 If war had not broken out , they would have married , but when the Kleibers were sent away to prison-camp , her last hope of love and security collapsed ; that was when she left the Island and went up West .
9 I think they followed you here from when you left the airport .
10 ‘ You looked like death when you left the club .
11 It was only when we left the tavern that we heard about the King . ’
12 The St Kildans had to leave most of their sheep behind when they left the island , and these now run wild .
13 It was mid-morning when they left the city and the heat was already building up again .
14 It seemed that Maidstone , who had been completely sober at ten o'clock when he left the bar , returned at about midday , still sober , but immediately started drinking heavily .
15 GEOFFREY BOYCOTT 'S credibility as a member of Yorkshire 's general committee was dented further yesterday when he left the emergency meeting an hour before the end , writes Derek Hodgson .
16 For example , he may be told that his alibi relates to a period between 2 and 5 p.m. last Thursday , when he left the refectory after lunch and took a train to a named neighbouring town and visited a friend in time for tea .
17 Alfred Anderson lost touch with the two men when he left the island in 1959 .
18 By the summer of 1967 , when he left the Department of Education and Science for the Board of Trade , £16m. had been made available for a building programme over the next two years , with a further £18m. to follow in 1971/2 .
19 ‘ Or when he left the table on two occasions , ’ Auguste said firmly , remembering Sir Thomas 's absence after the meal , which had been longer surely than it took merely to change his clothes for those of Bill Sikes .
20 There had been something predatory about it ; the sort of smile a fox might give the remaining chickens when he left the hen-house .
21 It 's useful for them to know what dads does when he leaves the house to go to work .
22 The car transporter was travelling down the slip road of the A418 to join the A40 when it left the sliproad .
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