Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb past] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the rime when everyone had a siesta and for a few hours the village was virtually dead . |
| 2 | When I ran the Alliance of Small Firms , we had regular visitors every year sponsored by the Government of Korea , who wined and dined small business men and tried to persuade them to take their work to Korea to be done . |
| 3 | When I parked the car at Woodside , I noticed the lights were on in the apartment next to mine . |
| 4 | I thought that I had finished third , but when I studied the television slow-motion replay on the stadium scoreboard I could see that in fact Ray had won the bronze medal . |
| 5 | There was a phase in between school and college when I was a vegetarian , when I shared a house with friends who were macrobiotic . |
| 6 | ‘ I was 17 years old when I committed the offence for which I was sentenced to die , and I did n't even start thinking and caring about my life until I was at least 20 . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ In some ways , ’ he said yesterday , ‘ Python does look very old-fashioned now , yet when I arranged a compilation of all 45 shows for the BBC I found that we had on the Not The Nine O ’ Clock News unintentionally pinched a number of things , putting the signature in the middle of the programme , parodying famous TV interviews . |
| 8 | ‘ It had always been her ambition to go to the Holy Land and so when I arranged the trip I told her ‘ Right , now you 're going ’ . |
| 9 | Now , I can hold my liquor as well as the next man , so it is ludicrous to suggest that when I reversed the club van into the tea hut I was under the influence . |
| 10 | ‘ When I realised the ring had probably gone back to England that was one of the first things I checked . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I did n't leave no mud when I cleaned the floor yesterday , ’ said Mary . |
| 12 | Only when I ordered the boatman to take us to Syon did my master break free of his reverie . |
| 13 | When I consulted a textbook it seemed that these were nuchal organs , important in food detection . |
| 14 | I remember thinking that the soldier had a face now , and though his head remained slobbering in her breast when I plunged the blade through the thick khaki , I saw the sudden sharp pain jolt through his eyes . |
| 15 | The accused , who pleaded guilty , said , ‘ I felt the devil and his horns on my head when I plunged the knife through his heart . ’ |
| 16 | The woman wore a dress that seemed very short when I recalled the picture through the next few years : broad shoulders , a straight skirt that hung the way it did — I know now — because it had some rayon in it . |
| 17 | ‘ You know , that was the best time of my life , when I drove the Truck , ’ said Angalo dreamily . |
| 18 | ‘ What a shock for you when I accepted the position , ’ Maria snapped . |
| 19 | He said er we had a big hoo hah he said er I borrowed some money off him he said some time ago to do something with and I had n't got the money he said and when I sold the plot of land he said I paid him back what I owed him cos borrow the money . |
| 20 | During the next year I completed my book , and all our hearts rose when I received a request from Mr William Ross 's office to see the manuscript . |
| 21 | This possibility was confirmed some months later when I received a letter from the mother of one of the men in Leslie 's ‘ stick , ( as a unit of paratroops dropped together from one aircraft was called ) . |
| 22 | I had just sent in last month 's article on the rib transfer carriage and shadow lace , when I received a letter from Mr David Dick of Irvine , Ayrshire , asking about knitting an embossed lace pattern using the ribber . |
| 23 | Our spirits were already beginning to flag when I received a letter from Eliot dated 2 June : |
| 24 | ‘ When I received the OBE in 1970 I thought that was more than enough , so that is what makes this such a bonus . ’ |
| 25 | When I received an answer from a Mrs Fairfax , who wanted a governess for a girl under ten years old , I accepted , with the permission of the new headmistress of Lowood . |
| 26 | However , when I tabled a question to that effect , the Under-Secretary of State , the hon. Member for Wells ( Mr. Heathcoat-Amory ) , answered by stating that , before the position could be changed , primary legislation would be required . |
| 27 | I put in when I planted the garden because I thought that would be useful to know the next year . |
| 28 | 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 ’ . |
| 29 | With Uncle 's help we all struggled on after he died , and when I got a bit older and left school it was not possible for me to contemplate leaving home to find a job and a new life outside Baldersdale . |
| 30 | When I got a bit older I worked with the horses in the fields , particularly at haytiming . |