Example sentences of "occasion when " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the occasion when a reader can visit the same show and make a personal assessment of how helpful the art critic has been . |
| 2 | On another occasion when I was involved in the tense process of bringing prisoners into the charge room in the central bridewell in Newcastle , a very precise ex-detective colleague ( by then a neat , uniformed chief inspector ) stopped me to exclaim on my appearance . |
| 3 | The closest he came to exercise was to open one eye every so often , if someone entered the room , or to open both eyes , smile , and wag his tail as he 'd done on one occasion when confronted by a housebreaker ! |
| 4 | Our official town doctor Rozanov , himself an accoucheur , declared quite positively that on one occasion when a patient in labour was screaming and calling on the name of the Almighty , a free-thinking sally fired off like a pistol-shot by Mrs Virginsky struck such fear into the patient that delivery was greatly accelerated . |
| 5 | A. D. Nuttall recalls an occasion when ‘ an authoritative figure in the world of critical theory announced to a submissive informal circle of coffee-drinkers : ‘ Reference is out . ' ’ |
| 6 | Surprisingly , given the folk image of policemen , on the one occasion when the field-worker accompanied some policemen on court duty , the men expressed a preference for ‘ fair ’ judges and actually criticized what they thought was the excessive penalty imposed by a ‘ hard ’ judge for the offence of throwing an empty can ( FN 9/3/87 , p. 10 ) . |
| 7 | There was one occasion when he went into a café and asked for tea and then while he waited he suddenly saw a solution to a theological argument which he had with Leslie Owen the warden , and his waving of hands was so convulsive that the café refused to serve him with the tea . |
| 8 | ( Former schoolfriends recall an occasion when Mrs Thatcher , as a young MP , returned to her old school as chief speaker at a dinner for Old Girls , and corrected the headmistress , who was a classical scholar , on the pronunciation of her Latin . ) |
| 9 | There was one classic occasion when the flare went out at Fawley refinery . |
| 10 | On one occasion when he had failed to produce an essay for the third week running , Betjeman wandered sheepishly into Lewis 's room and threw himself on his knees by the hearth . |
| 11 | On the only occasion when Warnie tried to probe Jack on the origin or true nature of his relationship with Minto he was shut up with great vehemence . |
| 12 | On one occasion when Tolkien tore a ligament playing squash , and was told that he would be confined to his bed for ten weeks , Lewis went to see him — but , as Warnie recorded , he ‘ found Madame [ i.e. Tolkien 's wife ] there , so could not have much conversation with him ’ . |
| 13 | On the one occasion when they had met in those six weeks , it had been to visit flood victims in Wales , in the town of Carmarthen , which had been hit by the freak October hurricane . |
| 14 | The Faroese soon developed a drive fishery for pilot whales , and the grynd came to be an important social event , an occasion when the whole community would come together to catch their food . |
| 15 | The only occasion when rail closures were raised in my time at the Transport Department was in the spring of 1981 . |
| 16 | So on this occasion when the priest set forth this ancient cry , it was as if a sleeping volcano erupted . |
| 17 | Mark then told him of the occasion when he had been driving down O'Connell Street some twenty or so years before , when he had inadvertently misunderstood the hand signals of the policeman on traffic duty , and had moved off before he had been cleared to do so . |
| 18 | Now I am never ashamed of anything , for I consider shame to be a bourgeois and petty emotion , but this was the one occasion when I felt ashamed of myself , and I have never forgotten how sad it made me to have denied my principles for the sake of friendship and love — or what I imagined to be love . |
| 19 | That was the first occasion when I saw my exercising as an irritating use of time , because it got in the way of our friendship . |
| 20 | I can not recall an occasion when he asked me for help before . |
| 21 | This experience , he says , was repeated on every subsequent occasion when he preached and administered Holy Communion . |
| 22 | She was a close friend of the Duchess of Portland and , when staying with her at Bulstrode in Buckinghamshire , December 1753 , reported that Philip Miller had been working in the library and , On another occasion when they met , she commented on his reticence . |
| 23 | This was the first occasion when I experienced the disillusion of actually seeing a place I had come to love through a poem — that had been , in Drinkwater 's phrase , ‘ lissom in a dream ’ . |
| 24 | They were so run down that passenger trains were rarely entrusted to them if anything else could be found , and they were to be seen hauling coal trains as on this occasion when No. 46156 ‘ The South Wales Borderers ’ passed Holmewood heading south in 1964 . |
| 25 | On any future occasion when the subject was raised the government of the day would always quote this report as the fountain of truth . |
| 26 | ‘ As I remember it , on the occasion when she first accosted us , you told her that she would be better off at home with a baby on her knee . ’ |
| 27 | Since the Queen presided , accompanied by Prince Albert , this was an occasion when Court and diplomacy were quite clearly combined . |
| 28 | If he had not so perceived it , the Tsar lost no time in pointing it out , for on each subsequent occasion when an attempt was made by Paris to draw closer to St Petersburg the Russians raised the question of the Black Sea Clauses . |
| 29 | Such reading in the classroom may still be the only occasion when some pupils experience this activity : in which case , they may well value it very highly indeed . |
| 30 | On one occasion when he had arranged it with elaborate care , he charged a colleague who brushed against him in a narrow passage , destroying the structure of his toga . |