Example sentences of "when [pron] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when I finally got to bed again it was well into Monday morning and it was Monday afternoon when I surfaced and there was a policeman on the door and it had n't been a nightmare after all . |
| 2 | When I eventually returned to Vienna to make music , I was completely relaxed within myself . |
| 3 | Railway stations are almost home to me now , I realized , when I eventually arrived at Victoria . |
| 4 | It was waiting for me when I recently returned from Namibia where lesbians and gay men are isolated and unrecognized , and have no solidarity network . |
| 5 | For one thing , I suppose I do regard it as the moment in my career when I truly came of age as a butler . |
| 6 | When I actually got to court there was more charges than there should have been . |
| 7 | I think I must have been gradually going off into a faint when I suddenly thought of mother reading the telegram saying that I had been killed in action . |
| 8 | I could come out top in my exams then when I never did at school , I never did anything much at school at all . |
| 9 | But when she eventually went to bed after a leisurely supper sleep proved elusive . |
| 10 | When she later climbed into bed , though , she was human enough to have found — out of all the unpleasantness that had gone on — a couple of things of a complimentary nature . |
| 11 | After overhearing comments surrounding Toni 's gender and nationality — by fellow Americans , I was relieved when she finally appeared on stage at 9.15pm . |
| 12 | A niece of the former Labour minister Douglas Jay and first cousin of Peter Jay , the former British ambassador in Washington who is now the BBC 's economics editor , her ratings went up in certain quarters when she once said of Mrs Thatcher : ‘ She is not the sort of person one would invite to dinner . ’ |
| 13 | her first film at the age of fourteen , when she still lived in Swindon . |
| 14 | How we survived remains a mystery , but when we eventually arrived at Backakeldy , we were told that the coastguard had been alerted and that our mad passage across the barriers had been watched in amazement by worried would-be rescuers . |
| 15 | When we originally talked to Barry about it , we already knew that the Prime Minister would be guest that night , so we told him all about it , and he had this great idea . |
| 16 | Then , very soon , the hunting stage when we deliberately played at savages . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's evolution ; when we still lived in caves we used to go out and hunt and whoever brought back the mammoth or whatever ate the best meat and got to fuck the women , and all that was good for the human race . |
| 18 | The hours burned by on the green screen , and when they finally flopped in Lucy 's living room , sipping brandy , a key turned in the lock and in came the charmingly dishevelled one and only son . |
| 19 | When they finally stood in front of him , they realized why he had not answered . |
| 20 | DIESEL 'S two Es — environment and economy — were the deciding factors for West Country vet Neal King and his wife Joyce when they both switched to oil-burners two years ago . |
| 21 | Helen Jones of Paul 's Lane , Southport , said she had met Kirk three years earlier when they both worked as care assistants at the Godfrey Ermine Home for the Blind . |
| 22 | When they eventually got to Paris , they found that they might just as well have stopped and had a meal in Hanover . |
| 23 | He deduced that the nomadic Hebrews had their origins there and had brought no more than a handful of the place names with them when they eventually settled in Palestine . |
| 24 | They were turning the corner at the end of the road when they almost ran into Constable Fenwick , and he greeted them : ‘ Hello , Aggie . ’ |
| 25 | Milton 's God was Empson 's last book , in his lifetime , though when he died he was collecting at least three others : Using Biography ( 1984 ) , on Marvell , Dryden , Fielding , Yeats , Eliot and Joyce ; Essays on Shakespeare ( 1986 ) ; and a book of Renaissance essays , as well as a massive ragbag ( as he called it ) of papers and reviews dating back to the 1920s which , when it posthumously appeared as Argufying ( 1987 ) , was rapidly seen by many to be the finest critical miscellany in the language . |
| 26 | When it eventually dawned on Liza that she must be pregnant , she began to panic . |
| 27 | A transcript of the tape-recording made in the restaurant was a central plank in the prosecution case when it finally came to court eighteen months later . |
| 28 | Then , when it finally dropped from exhaustion , it was killed . |
| 29 | The sun was settling into the tree-tops up the line when it finally curved into view . |
| 30 | It was insured by the charity organiser Ruth Hilali , and when it apparently disappeared in transit , more than £100,000 was paid by insurers into charity funds at the Worcester branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland . |