Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] ['s] [noun sg] when [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keegan , though , declined to look beyond this afternoon 's match when he left St James 's Park with his 14-man squad yesterday . |
| 2 | DROMORE High lifted their third successive High Schools ' Cup when they defeated perennial opponents Limavady High in yesterday 's final shoot-out at Ravenhill . |
| 3 | My master said : for my dear mother 's sake I will be a friend to you and you shall take care of my linen — God bless him — and gave me four golden guineas which were in my old lady 's pocket when she died . |
| 4 | ‘ That was the first High Queen 's instruction when it was being raised from the rock . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're so beautiful , how can you be so callous of another woman 's unhappiness when you look like an angel direct from heaven ? ’ |
| 6 | It was usual for the Girls to stay at the English Girls ' Club when they first arrived . |
| 7 | They LIED last Tuesday in their weekly works ' newsletter when they said : ‘ Reprocessing has been temporarily halted because of maintenance work . ’ |
| 8 | It is a tribute to the smoothness of the operation that many private pilots do not realise that they have effectively moved into another country 's airspace when they enter the Jersey zone . |
| 9 | In the corner of the picture was a holdall , a scientist would say it was the same as that used to weigh down Chalky White 's body when it was found in the lake near Cirencester . |
| 10 | Chief Supt Bill Hills , head of the force 's uniform operations department , will have completed more than 35 years ' service when he leaves the job . |
| 11 | I heard them no sooner I turned to walk away which I did after a brief moment 's hesitation when I wrestled with the foolish notion of somehow eliciting a confession out of the florid man that he was lying and that Leicester Square did indeed exist ; not realizing then that he was right , and that there really was no such place as Lei-cester Square . |
| 12 | That might help undo memories of living in or around Lucca in a displaced persons ' camp when they left Trieste ; a little cosseted security makes up for the times when there were seventeen families in one room . |
| 13 | A simple X-ray spotted an inch-long needle left in the 56-year-old mum 's bottom when she was giving birth to her daughter , Jane , in Rotherham , Yorks . |
| 14 | If you get a a pension based on the fact that you 're your late husband 's widow when you are no longer your late husband 's widow , but somebody 's wife they do n't have to pay you that pension . |
| 15 | It was very hard work but you felt , well I 've done a good day 's work when you 'd finished . |
| 16 | The buxom , ginger-haired woman also had a shady past , and it did little to help the poor woman 's image when it was resurrected by two regular carmen . |
| 17 | It 's basically going to be on the Poll Tax in the elections and how Oxford against the Poll Tax sort of considers to be the most important element sort of determining people 's decision when they go in to vote on Thursday . |
| 18 | There was , I was gon na say there was a hell of a fight going on here the morning we come over yours between Christopher and Andrew , and I went in to sort out just in time to hear Christopher say well I 'm having all GrandPat 's money when he 's dead not you . |
| 19 | I 'm slightly concerned about this because it said that other matters erm we do n't know what other matters until the inspector has been in , in June and has identified those other matters , presumably when we get the further inspector 's report next Autumn or after June , it will address issues which may have been ones he has addressed this year and maybe not , er and we will have to look at that inspector 's report when we receive it . |
| 20 | HOUNSLOW will be defending an unbeaten record in the European Cup-Winners ' Cup when they set off for Holland today to compete in this season 's final stages . |
| 21 | Maggie had thought there might be a sign of deference in the fat girl 's voice when she replied to the somewhat intimidating supervisor , but there was n't . |
| 22 | ’ … and Millie was sick on that man 's hat when we were oan the roller-coaster . ‘ |
| 23 | Elation returned after 27 months ' drought when he won his first ranking tournament at the Mercantile Credit in Bournemouth last January . |
| 24 | ‘ Then he 'll need to take another nine month 's sabbatical when he hears my reply . ’ |
| 25 | The other curse was directed at the committee members of the local Working Men 's Club when they banned my father , on the pretext of his epilepsy , but really because he always won at cards and was n't keen to give people a chance to win their money back . |
| 26 | I was , I explained , a bit of a big girl 's blouse when it came to crumbling ledges , sheer drops , being underwater for unreasonable lengths of time and squeezing into jam jar sized spaces . |
| 27 | Although most of us do n't have the time or the inclination to record what tickles a particular customer 's fancy when it comes to paying , it does nevertheless pay off to make that extra effort and note what it is that works — particularly with large customers . |
| 28 | And there are still people who can shout blasphemy or heresy and demand the same bishop 's resignation when he makes so self-evident , commonsense a statement as that the Resurrection can not be definitively ‘ proved ’ . |
| 29 | I 'm told those palaces are tighter than a young whore 's arse when it comes to security . ’ |
| 30 | She was just bending over to pat powder on to a young actress 's face when she heard the door open behind her and a strange tingle of apprehension prickled the back of her neck . |