Example sentences of "[vb past] when [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Differently again , the overture to A Month in the Country conveys romantic nostalgia with deeper hints of passion which Lanchbery created when he arranged little-known music by Chopin . |
| 2 | The Minister does not know the figures , but I shall tell him what farmers in Orkney found when they made simple inquiries . |
| 3 | He excelled when he caught fine rays of sunlight dappling the surface of a lake . |
| 4 | Faldo conceded the French and Belgian Opens when victory seemed a formality and he bristled when I questioned these fallibilities during his march to triumph in the European Open at Sunningdale . |
| 5 | The difficulty came when one imagined these numbers written on the spine of a book , or on the can of a filmstrip or an audio-cassette , and given to an untrained person to shelve or file in a sequence . |
| 6 | His best season so far came when he rode 28 winners , and with 22 to his credit already this term , he is on course to better that total . |
| 7 | It all began when I won New Faces , but it gave me a very big head . |
| 8 | My insight into my own motivations in ‘ choosing ’ anorexia began when I read this statement : ‘ Addiction , obesity , starvation ( anorexia nervosa ) are political problems , not psychiatric ; each condenses and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual 's body . ’ |
| 9 | a lot about that when you went when they went last year . |
| 10 | She stretched her legs under the table , feeling the same satisfaction that she felt when she woke that morning . |
| 11 | Who cared what Anpetuwi meant when she had three tables to clear , four people waving at her , and a growing list of drinks to remember when she got back to the bar ? |
| 12 | ‘ I 've given much thought to what you meant when you said those things — to what you really want , and — ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , Fernando — ’ she turned her face to his ‘ — now I know what you meant when you called this morning — that Steve would need a friend , need my support . ’ |
| 14 | November : On Nov. 14 all 46 people on board an Alitalia DC9 died when it hit high ground while approaching Zurich airport in Switzerland . |
| 15 | ‘ I was told by others that Benny really laughed when he got that fax . |
| 16 | The collection also increased when he inherited 90 paintings from Count František Antonín Berka of Dubá . |
| 17 | But what white kids did when they took that form of music was to quote white literature which is head stuff , and nothing to do with what 's under your balls . |
| 18 | He looked just like he did when we played real gigs . |
| 19 | ‘ Perhaps you were going to lose control as you did when you attacked Sabine Jourdain ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ The Michelangelo computer virus that received worldwide attention last year is expected to cause even fewer problems this Saturday than it did when it struck last year , a team of IBM researchers said ’ . |
| 21 | The first things Dipesh Shah did when he became managing director of BP Solar in March 1991 were to set a target for the next two years and to articulate it to everyone in the company . |
| 22 | I mean , I bet he never complained when he got 8 weeks off when he was a boy . |
| 23 | Of course he complained when he entered political writing instead of preparing himself for his poem . |
| 24 | He ‘ established methods of work , and initiated courses of improvement ’ under which by 1890 the average general death rate of Liverpool was declared by Sir John Simon [ q.v. ] to have been reduced by ‘ probably at least a fourth part ’ of the rate which prevailed when he became medical officer of health . |
| 25 | She listens to him more than anyone , and it was his will which prevailed when she composed last year 's Christmas speech , in which she made it clear that she would never abdicate . |
| 26 | Twenty-four hours , the way her luck ran when it concerned this man . |
| 27 | ‘ I said when we arrived two weeks ago that by the time it came to this Test you would have to give us a 50–50 chance because this is a one-off game , not part of a Test series . |
| 28 | Mr Heselton , I understood you said when we started this debate that you were eight hundred and fifty short , or thereabouts , of Mr Curtis 's pro-rata figure , which was four thousand two hundred . |
| 29 | ‘ Because I choose to ; now tell me what your lover said when he returned last night . ’ |
| 30 | My Mammy said When I smell Pink Camay I can |