Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] when [pron] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That same year , for example , Britain 's Sue Barker enjoyed perhaps her finest hour when she defeated the pretty Czechoslovakian , Renata Tomonova in three sets . |
| 2 | Möllemann , the first German minister to visit since June 1989 , requested information on 903 political prisoners when he met the Chinese Prime Minister , Li Peng , and said that trade and economic relations would be dependent on improvements in human rights . |
| 3 | When , after that , we used to hear controversy about Dr Paisley and later heard about his imprisonment in 1966 , because of that afternoon when we heard the gospel preached with power and conviction , we found ourselves tending to take his side in the controversy . |
| 4 | He had taken only a few hasty steps when he heard the tread of feet on the wooden steps above his head . |
| 5 | He drew it each Friday when he drew the men 's wages but he never handed the money over to Sarah until Saturday morning when she was off to do the shopping . ’ |
| 6 | Never had an occasion to use , well the only time I 've used a newspaper as far as I know this afternoon when I emptied the bag . |
| 7 | ‘ No , I gave you back some tearducts when I inserted the new model . |
| 8 | The minister disappointed some supporters when he confirmed the Government had abandoned plans for legislation to curb the activities of the National Union of Students . |
| 9 | It was enfeebling , it had killed off his efforts at meditation , and there was something almost sinful in allowing his imagination to feast on these buried years when he considered the present turmoil and growing anarchy engulfing the city that had made him one of its own . |
| 10 | Glen Campbell used a similar approach on a few tracks when he did the sessions for The Everlys ' wonderful Great Country Hits album of 1963 . |
| 11 | On another day when I asked the question , she began slowly and with difficulty to lift the skirts of her dress , revealing bare knees . |
| 12 | The bird thing start and said to Debbie this morning when she brought the car in , how you going to pay ? |
| 13 | ‘ Then the drugs must have been taken then , unless it was during this morning when I unlocked the cupboard with Dr Rafaelo 's key to take out anti-inflammatory tablets for Señora Thorpe . ’ |
| 14 | I could have wept this morning when I opened the papers , I really could . |
| 15 | He won the Harold Clarke Leopardstown Chase in 1991 beating Mweenish by a length and the year before , was one of Ireland 's top novices when he won the Arkle Chase at Leopardstown in between two other victories which included one in the Punchestown Festival Handicap Chase where he beat The Committee by a short head with Feroda third . |
| 16 | ALEX Robertson won his first North region PGA tournament this week when he clinched the £8,000 Brough Classic with a 2 under par total of 136 . |
| 17 | He was layering a hedge in one of his top fields when he saw the party riding along the road towards the forest . |
| 18 | , 's export administrator , helped lead the Sudbury cricket team to victory earlier this year when they won the premier cricket competition in Suffolk and Essex . |
| 19 | Only a few of our members who have these qualifications are able to help , and we therefore rely heavily on ‘ friends from other churches ’ , a poor phrase when applied to such friends as Gilbert Clark , Duncan Curr and David Wright ; and the phrase also acquired a different meaning this year when it included the Rev. John Page , Minister of Dunlop , and his wife Janie , who daily travelled many Scriptural ‘ second miles ’ from their church to join us . |
| 20 | [ This message was dramatically reinforced in March this year when I broke the story about the impending separation of the Duke and Duchess of York . |
| 21 | Among the guests , Patricia Pinkerton , who made history earlier this year when she became the first woman to be put in charge of her own parish ; St Briavels in the Forest of Dean . |
| 22 | Wondering why he had n't been awakened for his breakfast , he contemplated snuggling down beneath the covers for another few moments when he heard the door bell ring . |
| 23 | She impaled it through the ribs a second time and the point took and held , and this time when she jerked the Scarag to the side it came with her , clutching at the killing wood . |
| 24 | This time when he slid the door back , she moved towards him , as if expecting him to let her pass , beginning to tell him about the incident at the Dragon Cloud , the wicker basket of leftovers from the teahouse held out before her . |
| 25 | There were only a few occasions when I remembered the news room falling silent as news came in via satellite . |
| 26 | ‘ 'E was all right this evenin' when I bought the paper off 'im . ’ |
| 27 | STEVE DAVIS , the defending champion , lost his quarter-final clash with Ken Doherty in the most humiliating circumstances when he forfeited the deciding frame and the match on the ‘ miss ’ rule at the Benson and Hedges Irish Masters at Goff 's , County Kildare . |
| 28 | 10:5–7 ) He used similar words when he appointed the Seventy . |
| 29 | Robert Montague was staying at a friend 's house in Cornwall one long , wet weekend in early December when he realised the moment had come to strike . |
| 30 | Dr Ken Currie , the head of the government 's Energy Technology Support Unit , had similar reservations when he told the Cabinet at a seminar on climate change in April 1989 that technically it was possible to halve carbon dioxide emissions ( the longer-term Toronto objective ) . |