Example sentences of "when [pron] started [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I started stravaiging about the bens and glens more than 50 years ago , I had never heard the name Munro applied to a hill . |
| 2 | I heard , when I started looking into the project at first that erm , the women used to do most of the weaving but you do n't actually do the weaving now , and they used to basically you know make up the , the larger part of the work force , is that the case now ? |
| 3 | And when I started to write on the piano I found that when I translated it back to the guitar it was better . |
| 4 | When I started refereeing in the 1960s the props ' attitude was : ‘ I may go backwards in a scrummage , but I will never go down ’ . |
| 5 | I did a lot of homework when I started working on the script . |
| 6 | Thirty years on I saw it again , when I started going to the Aegean . |
| 7 | ‘ My wife noticed when I started practising on the lounge carpet after Sunday lunch that I was also behind my arms . |
| 8 | Okay this er this lecture is called multiple government and the federal system and it flows directly from the last lecture when I started talking about the er the constitution and about the principles and the values that erm form the American system . |
| 9 | But when I started walking across the table to the farmer , his youngest son , a boy of about ten , picked me up by the legs . |
| 10 | Ask them : What was the most surprising thing that happened to you when you started working on the buses/in the shop/in the hospital/in the school ? |
| 11 | But , you know , if , if , if I 'd have put , when we , when we started to talk at the beginning of this term we had at the beginning a general discussion about what are we gon na put in land reform , if I 'd have come along to s to you and I 'd said well I think we should do this |
| 12 | Mr McTear , a telecommunications worker and former 60-a-day smoker , is suing for an unspecified sum of damages , arguing that when he started smoking in the 1960s there were no health warnings on packets and that by the time they appeared he was addicted . |
| 13 | He was so overwhelmed and flattered that he could not argue , but when he started working on the ballet he found that the music ( an orchestrated version of Schubert 's four-handed piano pieces ) ‘ said nothing to me ’ . |