Example sentences of "when [pers pn] had [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Every few minutes I found some reason to stop : to take off my sweater , to put on my robe , to change from boots to training-shoes and back again , to eat some oats , to take my temperature , to redistribute the load inside the lockers and , when I had no other excuse , simply to rest .
2 When I had a small printing business in Stornoway several of my employees were crofters .
3 When I had a close look at it , I saw that the inside of its mouth , which should have been pink , was very pale and frothing .
4 Quite a come-down from the two-page list of duties required of me when I had a real job .
5 The next I heard was when I had a complete breakdown of Robert and Janet 's income erm with the breakdown of how a new settlement was was brought about .
6 O'Keeffe 's immediate reaction to the criticism generated by the 1923 show is not known , but it is clear from a letter she wrote to Mitchell Kennerley of the Anderson Gallery in the autumn of 1922 , soon after Rosenfeld 's second article appeared , that she had objected from the beginning to Hartley 's and Rosenfeld 's assessments of her and her art : ‘ You see Rosenfeld 's articles have embarrassed me — [ and ] I wanted to lose the one for the Hartley book when I had the only copy of it to read — so it could n't be in the book . ’
7 When I had the two miscarriages — you did n't know about the miscarriages , did you , Charles ? ’
8 And that was a fortnight ago when I had the first scan .
9 erm , why is it so much higher than the similar figure , the same figure for , my sub team , when I had the same number of stage one decisions and one more stage two decision ?
10 Well really when I had the same thing , you know , and goes back for a little bit this morning and er same sort of thing .
11 Well the total is always three sixty all the way round but was this when you had a million pound pocket money or when you only got four pence a week .
12 Mr Justice Douglas Brown said that the defendants were negligent ( 1 ) in failing to appreciate that they were dealing with a husband of substantial means who might well be able to afford to pay , not only a lump sum , but also substantial periodical payments ; ( 2 ) in failing to obtain full disclosure of the husband 's financial affairs ; ( 3 ) in failing to realise that because of family trusts and wills the husband had an expectation of further assets ; ( 4 ) in advising the wife to obtain a mortgage when she had no taxable income ; ( 5 ) in recommending a settlement which removed the wife 's undoubted right to maintenance ; and ( 6 ) in failing to use ouster proceedings to remove the husband from the matrimonial home .
13 Further , no married woman could make a will without her husband 's consent , nor ( with trifling exceptions ) make any contract , except as agent either for her husband or for some other person : it would have been absurd to let her contract when she had no free property out of which she could pay .
14 We never wanted to be the first one when she had a new stick of make-up as she did n't take the cellophane wrapper off .
15 Mrs Hamlet , who now lives in Aldford Way , Winsford , began to rebuild her life and was delighted when she had a new baby daughter , Carina , from her second marriage to Robert .
16 But the old wife always put he egg spoon through the bottom of the eggshell when she had a boiled egg after that .
17 She was about to move off when she had a sudden thought .
18 One night she had just blown out the light when she had the sudden feeling that someone had entered the room .
19 However when we had a crucial area such as the future of Church Relations , decisions seem to have been taken .
20 Dad normally would n't have been out in such madness , but there he was , this grey-haired man just over five feet tall , going into a phone-box when we had a working telephone in our hall .
21 The drive down was very straightforward until the last few miles ( it must have been because up until then we did n't get lost ) when we had a slight hitch and had to study the map a little more carefully .
22 ‘ Even when we had a right go at them late in the second half , they were still strong .
23 Mr. Speaker , Sir , when we had a Greater London Council , the noise of lorries in London was controlled .
24 That 's that 's like erm when we had a new girl once we put on the card BANW banw .
25 Yes oh yes er er when we had a wee baker 's van coming up from the Nedd to Lochassynt when when Lochassynt Lodge you see .
26 Certainly it was the view adopted , for example , when we had a 6 month interregnum in Dublin , and it was assumed it was my responsibility to hold the fort .
27 If he had done a little more research and had seen the evidence that I gave to the Treasury and Civil Service Select Committee in 1987 , he would have seen then — when we had a fiscal surplus of many billions — that I indicated that it would be right , in a downturn , to borrow money in a recession .
28 Does the Minister acknowledge that when we had a domestic rating system almost every citizen in the land made sure that he or she registered to vote ?
29 Gilbert : ‘ When we had a big exhibition at the Hayward Gallery , 80 works , only three or four had a penis in it . ’
30 He intrigued us and then , when we had the good fortune to meet him socially , he emerged as both a remarkable and idealistic person .
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