Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb past] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We left 406 in October 1943 , and that was the last I heard of them until I received my Spring 1991 issue of Air Mail when I spotted that 406 Sqn were having a 50th Anniversary Celebration and Reunion in earlyh May at Shearwater Forces Base , Dartmouth , Nova Scotia . |
| 2 | I HAD to cry when I saw that blind singer Lennie Peters is fighting cancer . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm telling you , ’ she said , ‘ when I heard that big clock in the hall striking the five , you could 've knocked me down with a feather ! |
| 4 | When I held that tiny baby in my arms it was so hard to believe that something so beautiful could come from such a sordid act . |
| 5 | One symptomatic phenomenon was revealed in my own research in Leicester for an Open University television programme , when I found that many teachers of English were unwilling to come to terms with the interest and creative potential of Asian students in English language , literature and drama . |
| 6 | ‘ You remember … ’ she would say coquettishly , ‘ when you made that awful fuss about the trousers … ’ |
| 7 | Queen Victoria achieved a big improvement when she insisted that prime ministers should not choose whomsoever they liked without consulting the Archbishop of Canterbury ; and in later stages she was able to insist that if the archbishop objected , the prime minister 's nomination should not go forward . |
| 8 | It almost broke her heart when she saw that darting look of imitation cross his face as she brought him bad news . |
| 9 | Mrs Coates came up with the idea when she realised that young people were finding their way into adult bars or congregating in the streets . |
| 10 | ‘ That first night of Luxembourg , when she turned that marvellous duet into a slapstick comedy routine and I complained to the Direktor about it — you knew I complained about what she had done to the duet , did n't you , Ingrid ? ’ |
| 11 | When she smiled that big smile with her slightly too big mouth and too many very white teeth it was as if the explosion was starting to blow the top of her head off . |
| 12 | Kadhafi said in an interview for the Egyptian political weekly Al-Musawar in October 1989 that in the past Libya had funded some groups without examining their aims and role in detail , but that " when we discovered that these groups were causing more harm than benefit to the Arab cause , we halted our aid to them completely and withdrew our support " . |
| 13 | Indeed these figures made even sorrier reading for the Conservatives when one realised that demographic shifts were working in the Government 's favour . |
| 14 | What did the delegates think when they composed that Gogolian policy of assessment in which results are first faked and then suppressed ? |
| 15 | ‘ No doubt there was some cross or ornament they found when they robbed that poor creature , and Adolph had made a fantasy out of it . |
| 16 | 's ( 1965 ) three dimensions and in a survey of heads of household in Illinois , found that socioeconomic status generally accounted for more of the rural-urban variation than either occupation or residence , and then rejected Bealer 's approach when they argued that future work should concentrate on single-dimension variables . |
| 17 | For example , Knox and Cottam ( 1981 a ) , although they used Scottish parish and district data to confirm Moseley 's hypothesis ( Figure 6.2 ) that the most deprived areas are the inner urban and outer rural ( when they found that central Glasgow and the Western Isles of Scotland were the most deprived ) , also argued that better results were obtainable from not only a welfare , but a questionnaire-based approach to individuals ' satisfaction or dissatisfaction with their way of life ( Knox and Cottam , 1981b ) . |
| 18 | On Aug. 18 , however , the UK government did an about-turn when it announced that 1,800 soldiers would be placed at the disposal of the UN in order to ensure the protection of humanitarian convoys in Bosnia-Hercegovina . |
| 19 | The Beveridge Report referred to both of these consequences when it argued that social security benefits should be of subsistence level only , allowing the individual , if he so wished , to make his own provision for higher benefits through voluntary insurance — which should also be positively encouraged by the government through tax allowances . |
| 20 | The issue of selecting an NSF candidate for the ( as yet unannounced ) presidential elections was not resolved when it emerged that any candidate would be required to endorse Roman 's programme . |
| 21 | Lord Loughborough agreed with Lord Rawdon when he said that pettifogging attorneys were the bane of civil society ; they were a pest . |
| 22 | Lou Duva , co-trainer of Holyfield , might have been cranking the hype handle too far when he said that this evening 's fight might be a once in a lifetime affair . |
| 23 | The hon. Gentleman seemed to miss an important point when he said that head teachers were worried . |
| 24 | He was sitting beside the river watching dead leaves floating downstream when he noticed that one leaf had suddenly started to behave very peculiarly — it was floating upstream . |
| 25 | When he noticed that linguistic usage could reflect social usage and that classificatory kinship systems encouraged group solidarity , Morgan made what we would now call a ‘ functional ’ interpretation of social phenomena . |
| 26 | These ‘ social capital ’ arguments may have been what Titmuss meant when he argued that major wars increase governmental concern for women and children , and produce social policies to protect them . |
| 27 | ALAN Hickman from Derbyshire became worried about the advice he was receiving over his pension transfer when he realised that each expert he consulted recommended a different course of action . |
| 28 | He was educated in Paris , and when he heard that some Americans had been present at today 's ceremonies he expressed a wish to meet you . " |
| 29 | A local coroner on a routine inspection became suspicious when he discovered that one baby had unusually high levels of a potent heart drug , digoxin , in its tissues . |
| 30 | Dr Alex Comfort lifted the argument to the realm of world peace when he maintained that sexual activity of every kind is necessary in order to free human beings from the instinct to fight and harm others . |