Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] when [art] [noun sg] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The young man , who is now 23 years old , was only 16 when a car ploughed into him and a couple of friends as they walked home from a party . |
| 2 | That made me just seventeen when the War broke out . " |
| 3 | We were both still 16 when the doctor confirmed I was pregnant . |
| 4 | This continued until about 1939 when the ceremony passed into history . |
| 5 | The manoeuvre was almost complete when the car started weaving across the road . |
| 6 | It was around six when the party broke up in disarray . |
| 7 | One of the earliest documented encounters took place in AD 109 when a dolphin befriended a boy swimming offshore at the Roman settlement of Hippo in northern Africa , and thereafter returned day after day to play with other children , who slowly overcame their initial fear . |