Example sentences of "when [pron] [be] [prep] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 They each had a radiator beside their beds , and very often when I was on night duty J. would return to bed very late ( or should I say early ? ) , after having been sitting with me in the Met Office , drinking coffee , chatting and so forth .
2 Yeah I had some good times around Norwich , when I was on travelling order job .
3 When I was on maternity leave one of these former partners asked me if I wanted some work , mainly dealing with the directors ’ personal tax affairs .
4 But when I was at Napier College , I found myself drifting more towards business communications and PR . ’
5 When I was at Shrewsbury School , the housemaster made it his duty to chose the cooks , maids and bottle-washers ; his criteria being age combined with an aggressive plainness .
6 When I was at Notts County , I used to score more goals in the second half of the season .
7 When I was at Bullwood Hall I was on Triptazol [ a tranquilliser ] for me temper .
8 We had next to none when I was at drama school and young actors need to know more about what will be expected of them on film sets and television studios .
9 Then later , when I was at drama school , my father had a flat in the Temple which is where all these lawyer chaps hang out .
10 When I was at drama school , they paired me off with a lovely actor who was only five foot eight and we had to play husband and wife !
11 I toddled through it when I was with Rhine Army .
12 Well , I was trying to sleep when I was in bed bed .
13 When I was in police custody the doctor came in to see me and gave me some tablets and I 'm asking you for some now . ’
14 Just the same as when you 're on video camera .
15 It pays when you 're on dole ma .
16 I mean when you 're on picket line it 's very depressing it 's very heart breaking unless you get some comedian or something you know it gets er y you do n't know what to do with yourself and perhaps they 'd been taking pots of this paint I 'm not saying .
17 but then you , then , it 's that , it 's , when you 're at work experience it 's then when you really find out what it 's like
18 It 's actually and that 's the most absorbent time , your mind 's most absorbent where you 're up to the age of five which is when you should when you 're at nursery school .
19 When you are at boarding school you are desperately lonely so you fantasise about what a relationship will be like , ’ says Piers Partridge .
20 When you are on evening duty , get to know individual bedtimes ( though be prepared for someone to change their mind ) and check what kind of help they would like from you .
21 Because when you were on night duty , which you , you did , er i it was a twelve hour stint right through from eight at night till eight in the morning .
22 Clive Swift , in his admirable and essential book The Job of Acting says that when you were at drama school ‘ you were a big fish — now you 're a tiddler ’ .
23 Well we had a r a sch classroom in the infants school there for our headquarters and er storing cos we used to make use , we had a palliasse on the floor for when we was on night duty erm but I can never understand why we had our he headquarters over there but we had to do guard duties over in the elementary school on th school on the other side because that was the only one that had got a telephone and we had to man the telephones from the Brigade Headquarters or the to be able to phone to should they want us to be called out and so we had to do the guard duty over there but we slept in the , when we was off duty we was in er Alma Green School and that was there and then the we moved from there eventually and th th the longest part of our life of the Home Guard , the headquarters was at the cottage , I 've been trying to think what the name of the cottage is , it ha it , it has a name it 's the cottage next door to the Sir Robert Peel public house in Bell Lane .
24 That is , people writing in the eighteenth century that th you know um it was appropriate for kids to be introduced to sex when they were around y'know sort of seven or eight or something in some cases .
25 Because the way that I erm , I 've been working on this procedure and in fact I sense this too , and I have most of what was currently there for research project , project related sub-contracting , in other words sub-contracting with B P or if necessary , which I felt that more or less covered and what it was n't covering was when a Marie type situation on software , where I was going to put a different section , which is where the report , when it 's on research project related company facts , then I pay for the software .
26 When it 's like pancake mix I tend , or omelettes I tend to use two bowls and even though I only really need to use one .
27 Lt Cpl Jeff Jones , of Birkenhead , said they reached the town at about 1am , when it was under mortar fire .
28 And then after , in the winter , and then after that when it was near hay time , I had to go out and help with the hay .
29 There are several players who might deputise for Stewart when he is on England duty , with Monte Lynch and Keith Medlycott strong contenders .
30 Once when he was at school camp , Shanti and I went to fetch him home at the end of the camp weekend .
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