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
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