Example sentences of "when [pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When my holiday had the goodness to be over , I stood on the usual rush-hour bus and read a schoolboy 's comic strips over his shoulder . |
| 2 | So if you 're going or When my daughter had a driving test I was massaging neroli all over her in the hope that she would calm down . |
| 3 | When they complained to the hunt er , the Master brought er a leg of pork round , not a leg of lamb I might add , a leg of pork to er , appease them er one other point , ooh yeah , there was , is one other point actually , when my daughter challenged the hunt she was appalled by the arrogance of these pink coated hooray Henrys who totally ignored her plight and er just carried on with whatever they wished to do . |
| 4 | Well — that happened to me when my daughter joined the local Brownie Pack ; they were desperate for help and that ‘ couple of hours on a Friday ’ led to my becoming that pack 's Brown Owl , moving to a Guide Company that was in danger of closing and finally becoming District Commissioner administration four Brownie Packs , four Guide Companies and one Ranger Unit . |
| 5 | I got into the sport when my wife wanted a flight . |
| 6 | Yeah it was like when my mother-in-law had the |
| 7 | Then I got worried when my period lasted a month . |
| 8 | When my mother saw the room , her jaw dropped . |
| 9 | ‘ When my mother died the only persons to whom I owed duty were my lord who had followed the cross , and Marian , my lord 's daughter . |
| 10 | At four I stay with her when my mother spends a week in hospital for a minor operation . |
| 11 | It came about when my mother made a live appeal for a Land Rover on Sandra Chalmers ' ‘ phone-in ’ show . |
| 12 | Rumour became reality when my father received a cold , official letter telling him that he was being sent to a place called Fontanellato . |
| 13 | ‘ I was in the States when my father suffered a stroke , and by the time I got to his side he was paralysed and could n't speak , which made communicating very difficult . |
| 14 | I knew what she would suffer when my father heard the truth . |
| 15 | There I was chucking copies of a certain rival mag into the fire when my father entered the room brandishing the latest copy of ZZAP ! |
| 16 | ‘ After that it was an understood thing that when my father wanted a new mistress he paid my mother accordingly . |
| 17 | I 'm all for missing hockey — how could I not be when my class coined a special place in the team-list for me : ‘ Lipman IVb . |
| 18 | So this g very good for things like shock like when my husband gets a telephone bill , |
| 19 | It was odd , she thought , that scientists so often were n't religious when their work revealed a world so variously marvellous and yet so mysteriously unified and at one . |
| 20 | The delegation from Liverpool were stunned when their request to meet the PM was granted . |
| 21 | ELEVEN bus passengers were injured when their vehicle left the road and toppled down an embankment . |
| 22 | Not least when their percussionist hits an artificial tree containing a drum sampler , two car wheels and a vacuum cleaner that looks like one of Ministry 's skeleton mic stands . |
| 23 | Alec Stewart and Graeme Hick , who played so well in England 's first innings , bagged ducks just when their country needed a repeat performance . |
| 24 | Two teenagers were hurt when their car hit a telegraph pole in Cleveland . |
| 25 | Of the subsequent disasters , Ibrox happened on a stairway when supporters leaving the ground tried to re-enter when their team scored a late goal . |
| 26 | Several Sunderland fans were escorted from the ground after running on the pitch when their team scored the winning goal . |
| 27 | A transaction is said to be internalized when its administration involves the use of authority rather than voluntary bargaining between people in a market . |
| 28 | Margaret Thatcher 's distaste for royal commissions is well known , but when her government faced the most serious foreign policy misjudgement of recent years — the failure to predict and forestall the Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands — it was time to send for Oliver Franks again . |
| 29 | Similarly , in Ingham v Emes [ 1955 ] 2 QB 366 , a woman contracted dermatitis when her hairdresser applied a particular dye to her hair , but she failed to recover damages since she had not informed the hairdresser of her allergy . |
| 30 | ‘ Liddy , tell me , ’ she said urgently , when her maid entered the room , ‘ promise me that Sergeant Troy is n't a bad man . |