Example sentences of "[noun pl] when [pron] [verb] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He fought with the Eighth Army and was mentioned in dispatches when he shot down a German plane with a machine-gun he had captured from an Italian plane . |
| 2 | Most borrowers did not anticipate this ; indeed , a 1989 survey by the Office of Fair Trading shows that only 37% of borrowers gave any thought at all to the likely future movement of interest rates when they took out a loan . |
| 3 | Then you turned thirty , started to nod off at ten-thirty and had attacks of the Blue Spots when you ran up a flight of stairs . |
| 4 | Duff , who won the title when representing Auchinleck back in 1988 , but now resident in England and representing his new country , looked to be heading for the quarter-finals when he opened up a 6-1 final-set lead over Dennis Catunarich . |
| 5 | And the videotape of Cal and me playing Bottom and Titania in A Midsummer Night 's Dream last year , with us collapsing in giggles when she tripped over a cobweb and brought down half the lights . |
| 6 | Town Crier Alan Booth beat 75 schoolchildren when they carried out an experiment on shouting . |