Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " 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 | For one thing , I suppose I do regard it as the moment in my career when I truly came of age as a butler . |
| 3 | When I actually got to court there was more charges than there should have been . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I could come out top in my exams then when I never did at school , I never did anything much at school at all . |
| 6 | But when she eventually went to bed after a leisurely supper sleep proved elusive . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | After overhearing comments surrounding Toni 's gender and nationality — by fellow Americans , I was relieved when she finally appeared on stage at 9.15pm . |
| 9 | When they finally stood in front of him , they realized why he had not answered . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Then , when it finally dropped from exhaustion , it was killed . |
| 13 | The sun was settling into the tree-tops up the line when it finally curved into view . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | When he finally returned to power , he was careful not to preside over the new Gaullist party , the UNR , in the same direct way that he had led the RPF . |
| 16 | When he finally died of alcoholism , she returned to the only job she knew , dancing . |
| 17 | When he finally paused for breath , I said , ‘ Hold on a moment ’ and explained that , although obviously nobody wants to spend more than they have to on anything , in my case it was a matter of principle , because I wanted my husband 's funeral to be a personal affair in which he would be ministered to by his loved-ones , not strangers . |
| 18 | Elderly men clammed up when Barley asked questions in the presence of his assistant , who was felt to be too young ; men rushed howling from the room when he casually asked about circumcision in a sister 's presence . |
| 19 | Then , when he simply smiled in response , she added , ‘ It would serve you right if Jeff walked out on you . |
| 20 | What is tolerably certain is that he was still alive when he either entered into confraternity with Christ Church or Cnut gave them his name , and that when Cnut himself sailed for Denmark in 1019 it was to suppress trouble . |