Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] when a [noun sg] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of deaf people , including children , lost their lives during air raids by German warplanes on the British mainland , including a family of eight when a bomb scored a direct hit on their dug-out . |
| 2 | In Andrew Allan 's book of memoirs he relates how he was standing in the lobby of the New York Hotel Algonquin in the summer of 1947 when a man came up to him and said ‘ I 'm Robert Service and I think I recognise you . |
| 3 | The same thing happened in Strasbourg in 1114 when a mob feared clerical lenience towards a heretic and took matters into their own hands . |
| 4 | There was the occasion in 1979 when a valve malfunctioned and was ingeniously fixed up with a handy piece of angle iron . |
| 5 | Were , I wonder , those same cries heard in the West Country back in 1969 when a 13-year-old made his Minor Counties debut for Somerset IIs ? |
| 6 | All I knew was that North Yemen was on the south western coast of the Arabian peninsula , that the language was Arabic and that the country had been closed to the West until 1962 when a revolution overthrew the ruling Imamate . |
| 7 | He had been investigated in 1983 when a child complained that the trained social worker had sexually assaulted him . |
| 8 | Things had come to a head in 1990 when a release extenxded a shut-down by several days at a cost of £250,000. a CAT , involving a wide cross-section of disciplines , was set up and reviewed incidents from 1987 onwards . |
| 9 | And Mr Samson had a lucky escape in 1990 when a van ploughed into the side of his car . |
| 10 | Life began to change at 16 when a shop asked Cindy to model for a fashion show . |