Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | But there are times when nothing less will do — on a chilly winter 's or rainy spring day , or when the family are at home , or on weekends when everyone welcomes a change from the routine of packed lunches and wine bar grub . |
2 | Another amusing incident to come out of ‘ Space Oddity ’ was when I got a phone call from David one day , who said he had to record an Italian version of the song because two kids in Italy had apparently done a cover version of it and as it looked as if it was going to do quite well , the Italian record company wanted a version by the original artist and said they would send someone along to teach Bowie phonetically how to sing the song . |
3 | I had n't been back longer than ten minutes when I got a sledgehammer through my street door . |
4 | I was just packing up my medical papers when I got a call to Ward 16 , now also a reception ward . |
5 | ‘ The first I learned of either the debt or the judgement was when I got a letter about it this week . |
6 | There are times when you can feel successful when you 've done virtually nothing — I remember when I became a radio actor , and I was pushing my motor bike , which had run out of petrol , up the main street in Cardiff , and I felt that I was a great star , and was very pleased with myself . |
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 | I had gone perhaps fifty yards when I felt a bullet sing past my ear and heard the crack of a rifle-shot behind me . |
9 | I was recently down at my local stationers looking for the projector pens when I spotted a pack of ‘ Berol Washable Juniors ’ . |
10 | Some days when I attend a day meeting I can start at 5am and finish at 9pm including travel . |
11 | Sometimes , when I made a move towards the cottage door , as if to leave on some errand , he called me back . |
12 | The bastard knew when I took a drink . |
13 | You know when I , when I change a nappy ? |
14 | ‘ The idea came to me during September 1991 when I saw a pile of waste paper being loaded into a contractor 's vehicle at the back of 36 St Andrew Square . |
15 | It was only when I saw a magazine produced by his students ' class that I relaxed . |
16 | I was about to take off my load and leave the heap of pine-needles for someone else to find in the morning when I saw a figure approaching in the distance . |
17 | Still , sometimes when I saw a camera lifted to a scene I would like to have shared back home , I felt a twinge of loss and was suddenly conscious of my idle hands , like someone who has recently given up smoking . |
18 | Then I 'ad to get a job ; that 's when I saw a notice in a shop window about a Brixton fam'ly wantin' a maid , so I went after it . |
19 | I ate three small carrots and was half-way through a can of sardines when I noticed a sea shell in the sand almost beneath me . |
20 | I knelt at once to pray and prayed most dutifully till morning when I expected a letter telling me Oreste had been taken . |
21 | I experienced the problem about five years ago , when I had a bout of wheezing in the late summer . |
22 | You remember when I had a perm do n't you ? |
23 | Well thank you Chairman , I have to go back to last Wednesday afternoon , when I had a telephone call from a reporter from the Eastern Daily Press asking me to make a statement on the press release by Suffolk County Council stating that the Bungay bypass has been abandoned well Chairman I have to say that I was somewhat erm put out , because I did I disappoint I think because they , the Highway Department did n't have the courtesy to inform me first , and you can well imagine how I felt er having received this news . |
24 | I can recall an incident early one September when I had a net carried away on to a hedge . |
25 | Except for a year when I had a break from competing , I have been racing ever since and have won two club championships and nearly one hundred trophies . |
26 | It 's like when I had a letter |
27 | I was anxious to settle the terms of the contract with M. Chaillot and , because I wanted to avoid being cornered by him in Passy , I suggested to Jean-Claude that he make an appointment for me to see him at the radio , mid-morning , on a date when I had a luncheon appointment . |
28 | Well I had , there 's some soup in the freezer from when I put a tin , a tin of chicken soup and Di used the last of the turkey in it , and we had some and what was left I put in a dish |
29 | see when I kneel see when I kneel a lot , |
30 | I do n't know , there 's a young doctor , but I can nae remember what she says , but see when I kneel a lot , Doctor |