Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [adv] when [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Soiree on 23rd December 1869 took place in one of the distillery lofts " a few minutes after six o'clock when the hall was completely crowded , upwards of 600 persons being present . " |
| 2 | ‘ We had an extraordinary example of this recently when the Department of Transport was asked to nominate roads for the proposed Trans- European Highway Network , and failed to consult Welsh Office Ministers before proposing the A5 across Snowdonia . ’ |
| 3 | Dr. Lamont writes that " Islay has no relics of the Palaeolithic age , but traces of Mesolithic settlement , principally of " kitchen middens " of small mobile communities , which are found in the vicinity of the 25 foot raised beaches " which were formed before 2500 BC when the sea was roughly at its present level , and says " It was , however , in the New Stone Age ( 2700–1300 BC ) that men took effective possession , pasturing their domestic herds , practising a simple agriculture , and interring their noble dead in impressive chambered cairns . |
| 4 | It and the rest of the prison will officially be mothballed from 8.15 tonight when the governor hands over his keys and relinquishes his responsibliities |
| 5 | It was just coming up to three o'clock when the taxi dropped them off in the old town square and Ven guided her to the old town hall where , with barely a minute to go before the run-through of the astronomical clock , Fabia stood in rapt attention . |
| 6 | THE death toll from a chemical plant blast rose to three yesterday when a girl died in hospital . |
| 7 | Or the girl with the nail polish and cuticle remover on the five-items-only check-out at Tesco 's , or the doctor 's waiting-room at 9.35 am when the surgery says SHUT and your child has a conker in his works . |
| 8 | At 10 o'clock when the Division bell goes , the House will have been sitting for seven and a half hours , from prayers through questions , statements and this debate . |
| 9 | The following morning my crew and I were up at 4 am when the tide lifted us . |