Example sentences of "when [pron] be [noun] [prep] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | I would have given my right arm to have achieved such an agreement when I was Minister for Aviation between 1984 and 1987 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ When I was chairman of the party , that man would have been sacked , ’ Lord Tebbit said . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But when I was at , you know , when I was a , when I was sort of feeding , cor ! |
| 10 | ‘ I said to Salman the other day ’ ( uttered at a dinner party I attended ) , ‘ When I was director of marketing … |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Not much to joke about when you 're Dean of sweet FA , ’ he continues to Bob Busby , who is carefully combing his hair in the mirror . |
| 13 | She added brightly , ‘ Much easier to be a fallen woman when you 're miles from home . |
| 14 | Cos that 's how you measure jobs when you in erm When you 're sort of managing projects or something or so many man hours to build this and then so many man hours to do this and then so many man hours to do that . |
| 15 | Erm distinction made when you 're sort of talking about audiences th the sort of participating audience where we interact and there 's the one where I sort of talk to you and you 're passive that . |
| 16 | Right , when you 're actually doing the busy outside , not from an office , when you 're sort of going out and see people , it 's always the one that 's , the furthest away . |
| 17 | When you 're footsore from walking the city streets , make a visit to Roundhay Park , with its landscaped gardens and woods and the Waterloo Lake , where you can hire a boat or go fishing . |
| 18 | When you were part of the 14th INT , sleep was something you never took for granted . |
| 19 | And think of the climate — more people will want to spend their holidays with you than when you were MP for Ribble Valley . ’ |
| 20 | When she 's sort of , twenty five or thirty , someone will drag this out and say , oh no ! |
| 21 | Yeah , I know but it 's just when she 's sort of having to sit down all the time . |
| 22 | Later when she is denbound with cubs , he will bring food to her and the pair will then rear their cubs together . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Parma became renowned for its elegance during the reign of Maria Luigia , Napoleon 's second wife , daughter of the Emperor of Austria and mother of the King of Rome , when she was Duchess of Parma , Piacenza and Guastalla ; although it had already been famous under the Farnese and the Bourbons . |
| 28 | Nanny often did that when she was cross with Artemis for leaving her clothes in a heap , or a dirty glass by her bedside . |
| 29 | And that it did n't feel it when she was sort of combing it , but now I 'm actually doing that I can feel it short . |
| 30 | One night , at the age of twenty-six , she was the victim of an appalling accident , when she was passenger in a sports car which ran out of control and somersaulted , landing upside down . |