Example sentences of "when [pron] was [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I was Secretary of State for Trade and Industry most of those Departments were in London . |
| 2 | I mean I had the same problem when I was secretary . |
| 3 | ‘ It was n't like this when I was secretary . |
| 4 | When I was Secretary of State for Education and Science I recall being concerned about the implications of some methods of teaching reading if they are followed too acutely — in other words , without a balance of reading methods . |
| 5 | like down at the erm , when I was crane driving , we used to have ships coming from Casablanca , with phosphate in and then there be a , another part there was sulphur , then they used to be erm , there 's green oar , what we used to call |
| 6 | I would have given my right arm to have achieved such an agreement when I was Minister for Aviation between 1984 and 1987 . |
| 7 | The early experience of ESAs that I had when I was Minister for Agriculture , Fisheries and Food showed the policy to be important , helpful and constructive . |
| 8 | There 's a number in the er when I was Church Street so that 's a few years now so it needs to be checked . |
| 9 | But I 've never been able to write except when I was stone cold sober . |
| 10 | When I was Chairman of the Crofters Commission we carried out a modest experiment in encouraging school children in crofting areas to improve the appearance of their villages . |
| 11 | ‘ When I was chairman of the party , that man would have been sacked , ’ Lord Tebbit said . |
| 12 | When I was Defence Secretary and , to my shame , trying to sell tanks to King Idris in Libya , I was pretty sure that he 'd be overthrown in an army coup , and I tried to identify the colonel who was likely to be the leader of the coup . |
| 13 | ‘ It was terrifying — especially when I was upside down . ’ |
| 14 | They know there 's no way I can play as I did when I was No 1 in the world but hopefully with more matches which will give me more confidence , they will see me play good tennis ’ . |
| 15 | When I was kids . |
| 16 | When I was Julia 's age I used to have to take my little brother and sister with me everywhere I went |
| 17 | I mean , you know , when I was student at L S E , you know , the front of the , of the demonstration was down at the Law Courts , the back was still in , at , at er , Oxford Street , or something , you know . |
| 18 | It happened to me when I was sort of looking at some sort of electronic engineering that I was n't supposed to be doing I was just looking at it for interest like Well I 'd like to have the time to spend on that but I 'll leave that thank you very much . |
| 19 | But when I was at , you know , when I was a , when I was sort of feeding , cor ! |
| 20 | ‘ When I was manager , I previously told Chief Inspector Dick Hebberd , who used to be in charge of policing at Underhill , about them , but he has since been transferred . |
| 21 | We went down in style when I was manager , no question about that . |
| 22 | ‘ I said to Salman the other day ’ ( uttered at a dinner party I attended ) , ‘ When I was director of marketing … |
| 23 | I actually invited him when I was Director of the British Film Academy to come to London erm and with the help erm of Brian Coe of Kodak we actually reconstructed about thirty seconds of this two-colour process erm and put it on a screen for our filmmaker colleagues in London . |
| 24 | But equally , the first thing I remember was my number in the infant school , when I was number fifty five , and er there were fifty eight of us in the class , and one lady kept order . |
| 25 | ‘ Mr Jardine , now , when 'e was Surrey captain … ‘ |
| 26 | 1991 , 27 , 145 ) that nothing seems to be known about Clara Taylor during the years 1921–26 , when she was headmistress of the Northampton School for Girls . |
| 27 | Catherine Bramwell Booth , the eldest granddaughter of the Founder , had discovered when she was head of women 's social services fifty years before that the leader needed a thorough knowledge of Salvation Army policy and practice and a keen grasp of government legislation . |
| 28 | She 'd learned about that back when she was Jessamyn Amanda and nine-year-olds had been worth a gallon of potable water on the streets of the NoGo . |
| 29 | When she was castaway on Radio 4 's Desert Island Discs — a year before taking over the show — Sue told the then presenter Michael Parkinson that the luxury she would want on the island would be an endless supply of clean sheets and an iron . |
| 30 | It is 20 years since the previous Prime Minister , when she was Secretary of State for Education , promised universal nursery education for all three to five-year-olds whose parents desired it . |