Example sentences of "when [pers pn] be [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I was born two voices cried from my mouth . |
| 2 | Strachan said : ‘ It came as a big surprise when I was told six weeks ago my name was being put forward . |
| 3 | I put my name on the list with everyone else , but was absolutely dumbfounded when I was told one day that it had come up , along with that of one of the other Waafs , and if we wanted to go we were to report to RAF Wyton at 10.00 hours the next day . |
| 4 | Except when you 're negotiating multimillion companies . |
| 5 | ‘ I live 20 minutes away from the set , but when you are working 16 hours a day the last thing you need is to be in a foreign country with a small child . |
| 6 | Ju I thought you were talking about the tombola when you were saying fifty pence a strip , sorry . |
| 7 | Where shall ye now get as much money as ye owe ? ’ , and when she was given forty pence she bought herself a furred cloak with it rather than paying off any of her debts . |
| 8 | Allison Dutton , 24 , was working late at her office in Cherbourg , France , where she had moved to live with her fiance , when she was stabbed 18 times . |
| 9 | Two-year-old Leannda was sighted when she was born 14 weeks premature . |
| 10 | Even when we are balancing one consideration against another in a quite particular case , to decide which of two conflicting prima facie obligations is the more stringent , we are trying to reach such an intuition , but the wealth of detail which determines the relative degrees of stringency in this case will make it inexpressible in a formula mechanically applicable to other cases . |
| 11 | The Austrians returned in his absence , and were assisted in their reconquest by the Russians and the Italians themselves who were never more happy , it seems , than when they were assisting one despot to overthrow another . |
| 12 | It was just too much for the American girl when they were faced one day with yet another torrential downpour . |
| 13 | In the late 1920s W. Embden , professor of physiology at the University of Frankfurt , found that German miners produced 20 per cent more coal when they were given 7 grams a day , decidedly a harmful dose , of sodium hydrogen phosphate . |
| 14 | His urethral discharge and her vaginal discharge had both cleared by two weeks , and when they were seen one month after their original visit , there was no sign of infection or inflammation . |
| 15 | In a Swedish study , patients with IBS treated with eight sessions of ‘ supportive psychotherapy which could be performed in any physician 's office ’ had fewer symptoms and psychological and physical disability compared with a control group when they were seen 3 months later . |
| 16 | The discovery that oriented bars and edges were the trigger features for neurons in the visual cortex was enormously exciting when it was made thirty years ago , but Levick followed up their discovery and found that there are orientation selective neurons in rabbit retina as well as the directionally selective ones shown in Figure 4 . |
| 17 | INVESTORS who piled into North West Water when it was floated three years ago are on the crest of a wave . |
| 18 | Of the 16 funds that made up our Global Strategy umbrella fund when it was launched five years ago , no less than four have come first in their respective sectors over this period , according to Finstat . |
| 19 | Die Hard 's action sequences won rave reviews when it was released four years ago . |
| 20 | . And nine times out of ten when I ask the congregation whether your church is bigger now than it was when it was founded nine times out of ten the congregation say , it is smaller now than when it was founded . |
| 21 | Retailers say Pentland Crown , the Scottish-bred variety which increased farmers ' yields by up to 20 per cent when it was introduced 30 years ago , bruises too easily and goes black . |
| 22 | ANDRE AGASSI was given a helping hand last night in his bid to retain his Wimbledon title when he was elevated five places above his world ranking to No 8 seed for the Championships , which begin next Monday . |
| 23 | Brett weighed a mere 1lb 5oz and was as short as a watchstrap when he was born seventeen weeks early . |
| 24 | Sam weighed only 1lb 6oz when he was born 18 months ago . |
| 25 | James Richardson , prosecuting , said documents found at Bedworth 's home in North Parade , Ilkley , West Yorkshire , when he was arrested two years ago , contained the teenager 's views of his hobby — views the Crown claims left even top experts worried . |
| 26 | ‘ Monty ’ was ‘ married ’ to his army career and favoured bachelor officers , but when he was approaching forty years of age , he met a widow , Mrs. Betty Carver , an artist who lived at 2 , Riverside Cottages , Chiswick Mall . |
| 27 | Shaved this Lieutenant Sergeant Major eyebrow off when he was sleeping one night , and he was in front of the , the Colonel Chief and Regional so what he did , he , cos it , it took , taken ages , took about three months to grow back , so what he did was he shaved the other one off as well |
| 28 | Lineker also reveals his anger when Taylor criticised him after an international against the Republic of Ireland and when he was dropped 24 hours before a friendly with France . |