Example sentences of "[was/were] [Wh adv] [pron] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Koppes comments on the launch of the Russian Sputnik : ‘ JPL personnel could remember years later where they were when they heard the news , what they first thought , and what they did . ’ |
| 2 | Although the England Under-19s , touring Pakistan last winter , had some cause to question just how young their opponents were when they discovered the ease with which birth certificates could be bought locally for just £2 . |
| 3 | Evidence shows that expected productivity in unit labour costs of British industry are more competitive now than they were when we entered the ERM . |
| 4 | Climbing from his car , Curtis surveyed the carnage wreaked by his enemy — for that was how he regarded the Prophet now — his enemy . |
| 5 | And that was where I got the knowledge about the extra money , and that is the only thing that I remember about from him . |
| 6 | ‘ Do you think that was where I saw the body ? |
| 7 | I knew she was just as scared as I was when we heard the cat on the stairs . |
| 8 | That was when they heard the sound of breaking glass . |
| 9 | That was when they had the argument . |
| 10 | Thursdays , half past five until six o'clock , was when they had the use of Mrs Parvis 's bathroom and as much warm water as trickled from the gas geyser into the tub . |
| 11 | The only thing that rang a bell for Portland was when they announced the defence cuts — and they all cheered . ’ |
| 12 | Jus ’ try ter fink where yer was when they turned the ware'ouse over , ’ Danny prompted him . |
| 13 | This was when they found the box . |
| 14 | This was when somebody opened the door to the inner sanctum where the support band was playing . |
| 15 | The only time that Ray Doyle found his composure slipping was when he made the mistake of glancing over his right shoulder , to where the Foreign Office boys were sitting . |
| 16 | You know how pissed off Kolchinsky was when he got the bill the last time you did that . ’ |
| 17 | It was when he reached the ground floor and was only a few paces from the door leading to the basement that things started to go wrong . |
| 18 | Walters ' most memorable moment in a Liverpool shirt was when he score the winner in the 3-0 UEFA Cup win against Auxerre last season , reversing a similar deficit as they face tonight . |
| 19 | The only moment when he seemed ill at ease was when I raised the question of the forced repatriation to Russia at the end of the war of thousands of White Russian and Cossack soldiers from camps in northern Italy and Yugoslavia . |
| 20 | We talked about that for a while and that was when I got the idea of using the mud wagon-not just for him but for the McLaren girl too , and just like before I could see myself sitting in it with her . |
| 21 | That was when I got the gun out . |
| 22 | And I wa commented on it to you , it was when I borrowed the maternity robe from Penny and she |
| 23 | That was when I scraped the fender on a protruding lump of rock . |
| 24 | I FELT I had to write and say how moved I was when I visited the exhibition of wood-cuts by Hong Song-Dam . |
| 25 | One high point was when I telephoned the historian , Roy Medvedev , to record on tape his message of support for the second European Nuclear Disarmament Convention , held in Berlin in 1983 . |
| 26 | For me however , the biggest eye opener was when I joined the fundholder group in Grampian and their meetings with the provider units . |
| 27 | It was when she heard the phrase ‘ hit-and-run job ’ that she glanced into the road . |
| 28 | If war had not broken out , they would have married , but when the Kleibers were sent away to prison-camp , her last hope of love and security collapsed ; that was when she left the Island and went up West . |
| 29 | That was when she saw the diary . |
| 30 | That was why he promoted the idea of the Grand Slam Trust Fund , an opportunity for the four Grand Slam tournaments , as the pinnacles of the game , to make a major contribution to the grass roots on a global basis , over and above the enormous funding they provide for tennis in their own countries . |