Example sentences of "was when i [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Another amusing incident to come out of ‘ Space Oddity ’ was when I got a phone call from David one day , who said he had to record an Italian version of the song because two kids in Italy had apparently done a cover version of it and as it looked as if it was going to do quite well , the Italian record company wanted a version by the original artist and said they would send someone along to teach Bowie phonetically how to sing the song . |
| 3 | ‘ The first I learned of either the debt or the judgement was when I got a letter about it this week . |
| 4 | That was when I got the gun out . |
| 5 | We talked about that for a while and that was when I got the idea of using the mud wagon-not just for him but for the McLaren girl too , and just like before I could see myself sitting in it with her . |
| 6 | ‘ The first time I came out of my shell was when I saw The Who at the Marquee . |
| 7 | I think it was when I saw the London policeman wagging a finger at a scowling urchin that I thought of Wesley Binks and the time he put the firework through the surgery letter box . |
| 8 | And I wa commented on it to you , it was when I borrowed the maternity robe from Penny and she |
| 9 | ‘ As soon as he 'd gone that was when I called the police . |
| 10 | That was when I scraped the fender on a protruding lump of rock . |
| 11 | I FELT I had to write and say how moved I was when I visited the exhibition of wood-cuts by Hong Song-Dam . |
| 12 | That was when I visited the Soviet Union in 1984 . |
| 13 | The final straw was when I bought the buttons , and on sewing them on , found the shop had supplied one odd one . |
| 14 | The only time I considered the title of a book was when I found a large number of books from the same library together . |
| 15 | One high point was when I telephoned the historian , Roy Medvedev , to record on tape his message of support for the second European Nuclear Disarmament Convention , held in Berlin in 1983 . |
| 16 | For me however , the biggest eye opener was when I joined the fundholder group in Grampian and their meetings with the provider units . |
| 17 | And that was when I did an item with a pop group , The Seekers . |