Example sentences of "[noun prp] when [pron] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A coalman , Mr Martin Phipps , had been driving his lorry along the downs at Chartham at 7.25am on Tuesday when he noticed a Jaguar XJS parked in a chalkpit , said PC Burden . |
| 2 | The 27-hole overnight leader was Brian Davis ( East Herts ) who won the Hertfordshire boys title at Nevill last Friday when he recorded a course record 65 . |
| 3 | Gloucestershire county councillors had been fearing the worst since February when they approved a budget almost ten million pounds more than the Government target . |
| 4 | Her hopes were raised in January when she received a letter from Hartlepool General Hospital offering the chance of an operation at Middlesbrough General within a fortnight . |
| 5 | Mr Hamilton met the three widows — Mrs Lennox , Mrs Elizabeth Weeks and Mrs Lyn Hicks — at the MoD in January when he indicated a compromise could be reached . |
| 6 | Proud dad Derek Corkindale , 25 , was holding newborn Daniel two days after his birth last December when he realised a name tag on Daniel 's leg bore the name of another baby in the ward . |
| 7 | It started on a Friday night in November when I felt a bit odd , so I took a paracetamol and went to bed with a hot-water bottle . |
| 8 | In 1992 the two countries had agreed to exchange Bank of China and Korean Exchange Bank officials and , in April , Lee Sang Ock had become the highest-ranking South Korean to visit China when he attended a meeting of the Economic Commission for Asia and the Pacific in Beijing . |
| 9 | I can recall an incident early one September when I had a net carried away on to a hedge . |
| 10 | He first met Chapman when he played a game for Leeds City in 1917 . |
| 11 | She was the youngest student to attend Oxford when she started a maths degree at 12 . |
| 12 | Accusations were shouted particularly against Energy Minister Nicholas Biwott when he attended a memorial service on Aug. 22 . |
| 13 | Hitchcock got the edge over rival Dave Beasant when he saved a penalty from Everton 's Tony Cottee in the FA Cup in January . |
| 14 | Gregory himself thought he had married Rachel when he became a monk ; but being pope was like waking up in the night to find oneself in the arms of Liah . |