Example sentences of "[adj] was when [art] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | One recent example of this was when a scientist reported , what was known as cold fusion . |
2 | This was when the cobbler praised , ‘ … |
3 | This was when the need to live together came not from the older generation , but from the child 's own family . |
4 | That was when the drink began to matter . |
5 | That was when the realization hit me . |
6 | That was when the idea came to her . |
7 | Someone complimented me on my beautiful baby , and I suppose that was when the idea came into my head . |
8 | That was when the idea lodged itself in her . |
9 | That was when the telephone rang . |
10 | Some water came up and hit my bum , and that was when the phone went . |
11 | ‘ That was when the order went out : Be nice to Diana . ’ |
12 | That was when the terror had taken a grip on her . |
13 | That was when the soldier hit Ivan with a tyre lever . |
14 | That was when the world had turned to silver . |
15 | That was when the evil had grown . |
16 | That was when the car hit the boy . ’ |
17 | Only one thing she drew the line at and that was when the prostitution took up bairns . |
18 | One of the most amusing was when a group calling itself the Renewable Energy Generating Board drove on to the proposed reactor site and installed a miniature array of ten-foot-high wind turbines . |