Example sentences of "when [pers pn] be [verb] [adv prt] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once , when we were going up one of the main avenues in the city a lump of thawing snow fell from a tree under which we were passing and hit me on the face . |
| 2 | WEDNESDAY : Success is brief for Durie , Wood and Hobbs when they are knocked out 2-1 by Austria . |
| 3 | They had nothing to drink , nothing to eat , they kind of hibernated and apparently they lapsed into a state of , of a kind of hibernation and inactivity , but they were still alive and they were alive when they , when they were pulled out fourteen days later . |
| 4 | Hugh you 've been minister of the parish of Inverleith here in Edinburgh for the past seventeen years , and I understand you were one of the very first vice convenors of the Board when it was set up eight years ago having already served the church on the former Interchurch Relations Committee . |
| 5 | Ariel soon began to pick up some English , especially from Jack Elsey , a nineteen-year-old from Southwark , who 'd been the cook on the outward journey , and was prompt to learn from her the flavours of the island vegetables and herbs , the edible flowers and fruits he 'd never imagined could possibly exist when he was growing up one of the twelve offspring of a Thames waterman . |