Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went back to the van and the bloody thing would n't start so I waited there till morning when I could catch a bus and … and , well , just get out . ’ |
| 2 | I guess his leaving coincided with my dad stopping taking me to Elland Road so maybe I 'm just been sentimental for the happy days when I could get a parentr to pay for the tickets ! ! |
| 3 | He said : ‘ This is a time when I can do a lot for my ranking . |
| 4 | You know when I used to have a tutor Fred |
| 5 | Her father has to sleep in the same room since he has to attend to her during the night when she may need a bed pan up to four times . |
| 6 | There is no doubt she feels that she has paid a high price for her royal life and looks forward to the day when she can spend a weekend in Paris or , as she says , ‘ I can run along a beach without a policeman following me ’ . |
| 7 | And while admitting to being ‘ pampered , cosseted and over-paid ’ , she dismissed reports that she will earn £300,000 a year from January , when she will front a new BBC show Entertainment Express , as untrue and exaggerated . |
| 8 | , this is when you 'll need a plumb line for that wo n't you ? |
| 9 | We got £110 for doing the gig , but the PA cost us £105 to hire , so we bought beer with the other fiver — and that 's when you could get a few beers for a fiver ! |
| 10 | Select one breakfast , lunch and dinner menu each day , except on the 7th , 14th , 21st and 28th day when you should choose a breakfast , lunch and supper menu . |
| 11 | YOU may not be an overtly ambitious sign , but 1993 is a year when you should adopt a very direct approach to your goals . |
| 12 | It 's only when you can put a famous face to sexual activity that the preposterousness of the whole event really hits home and even if that does n't stop you from participating ever again , it will certainly put you off meat for 24 hours . |
| 13 | Everyone has had a reasonable work-out and we 've been very fortunate with the weather at a time of the year when you can have a lot of matches ruined by rain . ’ |
| 14 | I can remember when you 'd see a cloud of dust , perhaps it 'll be a mile away and this would be a flock of sheep . |
| 15 | I wonder when we might arrange a meeting to talk over old times ? |
| 16 | George Underwood : ‘ We had periods when we would bring a guitar into school , particularly when it was raining . |
| 17 | You do n't know when we 'll get a day like this again . |
| 18 | If you had n't you had to clear off and that 's when we used to make a tent out of anything , old sacks , bits of tarpaulin , anything then it 's covered over with erm . |
| 19 | We thought it was the time when we could make a gesture in return . ’ |
| 20 | There is always a moment in time when we can make a decision whether or not to vent our anger . |
| 21 | Instead we are living in a time when we can watch a TV ad which tells us that cars which are way beyond the range of most people 's pockets are being ‘ handbuilt ( somewhere else ) by robots ’ . |
| 22 | It is a time when we can take a deep breath , assess where we are and make a start on our anticipatory mourning for our fate . |
| 23 | ‘ They want to know when we 'd have a bed . |
| 24 | Even then , apart from the two nights a week , when they would visit a cinema or call on friends , she was ever with Mother . |
| 25 | Apart from the occasions when bream are preoccupied with full larders of fry , there are times all through the year when they will eat a small fish , just the same as there are times when they will chomp a lobworm . |
| 26 | Apart from the occasions when bream are preoccupied with full larders of fry , there are times all through the year when they will eat a small fish , just the same as there are times when they will chomp a lobworm . |
| 27 | Knowing what he would find when he went there , and knowing that it would pain him , Edouard delayed the moment when he would make a formal inspection of the house . |
| 28 | Elizabeth Stewart , post-graduate chemistry student , recalls that Sir Robert Robinson under whom she was to work was away working for a government department and his students rarely saw him : ‘ We never knew when he would do a lab round , and often it would be at the lunch hour , when I was out ’ . |
| 29 | Pitt goes back into action this summer when he will shoot a ‘ very poetic script ’ with John Malkovich entitled Forget Me Not . |
| 30 | We were asked to move into position to observe , but not to intercept , a small American ship en route from the States to Ireland and given its course and estimated time when it would pass a certain point . |