Example sentences of "when [pers pn] was [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I was fired at , he missed and that gave me a love of life . ’ |
| 2 | When I was chided by someone for seeming oblivious of ‘ the magnitude of the accounting operation ’ I said that it was because of my consciousness of the magnitude of all other operations that I dared to make these demands of Mr Whalley , who perfectly understands in any case . |
| 3 | As a writing partner he had two rare gifts : the ability to get us unstuck with some inspired off-the-wall conceit when I was enmeshed in very on-the-wall musings ; and in addition , the priceless talent of knowing whether something was funny or not . |
| 4 | David Thacker recalls a slightly different version : ‘ When I was shot down it was my first encounter with the enemy . |
| 5 | When I was injured in the first match with Portsmouth at Fratton Park I did n't expect to be playing again in a fortnight . |
| 6 | ‘ I always found it very funny when I was referred to as Mr Laura Ashley , especially as I hated my own name , Bernard . ’ |
| 7 | When I was hit by a drunk driver in 1980 , crossing the road in Los Angeles . |
| 8 | I had Philippe Alliot in front of me and there was nowhere to go when I was hit by Zanardi . ’ |
| 9 | This was something I was able to develop very much when I was appointed as director for life of the Vienna Singverein . |
| 10 | I did n't see it but when I was presented with the job advert from a local newspaper the words leapt out at me : ‘ Lecturer : Special needs ’ in the college in the borough where I used to teach before becoming a peripatetic home teacher for pre-school children . |
| 11 | I saw one forlorn notice saying " Sergeants ' Mess " , and was about to explore the rest of the camp when I was stopped by a shout . |
| 12 | I 'd felt powerless when I was abused as a child and I 'd felt the same powerlessness with the bank manager . |
| 13 | ‘ But when I was reunited with them , I 'll admit I just broke down and sobbed my head off . ’ |
| 14 | But Victoria is wondering why I always come with you , when I was employed to be on duty here . ’ |
| 15 | I became involved with him some years ago when I was consulted by Lord Rayne who told me that he had a friend — a leading paediatrician in London — whose daughter was in serious trouble . |
| 16 | She caught me once when I was drunk in school . |
| 17 | When I was separated from all these early influences , my choices became simple . |
| 18 | It arose because of my meeting George Wigg in the army , whom I had encountered when I was based at Southern Command headquarters and he was at the same headquarters as a Lieutenant-Colonel in charge of army education , where he had already established a reputation for ruthless eccentricity . |
| 19 | ‘ It was rather more difficult when I was based in London between foreign postings . |
| 20 | I noticed it especially on one occasion when I was beset with problems which had made me very unhappy . |
| 21 | I was lingering near the assembled bottles , wondering who on earth could have brought the Bourgueil , when I was joined by the man I had seen stepping out of the BMW . |
| 22 | When I was sacked from Aachen , no one bothered to tell me . |
| 23 | Some four and a half years ago when I was elected as a branch secretary of a fairly substantial branch in the Birmingham Region , I had two hours with the then finance officer and he said , well it did n't last the two hours , and he said er , well you know all there is to know now , about how to run this branch . |
| 24 | I was able to recall perfectly quite long sequences of words even when I was exposed to each for little more than twenty milliseconds . |
| 25 | I was giving tea to my opponent who , though the same weight , was probably two years older , when I was sent for by Julian Hall , my fag master . |
| 26 | I had a curious brush with the law myself once when I was sent by my employer to attend a day seminar on drugs to be given at the local university by a police sergeant . |
| 27 | I was treated abominably by the police when I was assaulted in the home |
| 28 | So , imagine my relief when I was called to the front porch , and I was greeted by a cheery ‘ American Red Cross reporting for duty Ma'am . |
| 29 | I used to wonder what on earth people found to talk about for so long , and on the occasion when I was called to a neighbour 's telephone in Baldersdale , I was so uneasy that someone had to hold it to my ear . |
| 30 | I knew an empty beer keg when I was tied to one , and the last time I 'd seen that particular one there had been a young punk called Emma sitting on it nostrilling certain noxious and probably illegal substances . |