Example sentences of "when [pers pn] had a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | When I had a small printing business in Stornoway several of my employees were crofters . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Quite a come-down from the two-page list of duties required of me when I had a real job . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | But the old wife always put he egg spoon through the bottom of the eggshell when she had a boiled egg after that . |
9 | She was about to move off when she had a sudden thought . |
10 | However when we had a crucial area such as the future of Church Relations , decisions seem to have been taken . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | ‘ Even when we had a right go at them late in the second half , they were still strong . |
14 | Mr. Speaker , Sir , when we had a Greater London Council , the noise of lorries in London was controlled . |
15 | That 's that 's like erm when we had a new girl once we put on the card BANW banw . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 ? |
20 | Gilbert : ‘ When we had a big exhibition at the Hayward Gallery , 80 works , only three or four had a penis in it . ’ |
21 | Anyway when they had a good look at it the front half was an Escort and the back half was an Orion , half a stolen car . |
22 | Denis Smith says he enjoyed himself at Stoke especially in the early seventies when they had a good team … as a professional he wants Oxford to win but after the game will revert to being a stoke supporter … he says his young son also supports them |
23 | But when they had a closer look they saw that it was frozen solid . |
24 | Pumfrey , respecting the routine of the school , though there was little enough cause to , interviewed the teachers when they had a free period . |
25 | Sybil , up in Hampstead or with one of her many friends , kept the home fire burning and joined the gang when they had a special bash . |
26 | After Freud had done his worst it turned out that there was still an ‘ unanalysed residue ’ when he had a major relapse some years later . |
27 | But in his judgment Mr Justice Morland said Professor Hartt had been ‘ dishonourable and deceitful ’ by posing as a disinterested scholar when he had a financial interest in the statue 's sale . |
28 | He opened the Salzburg music festival , but encountered a protest demonstration when he had a controversial meeting with Kurt Waldheim , the Austrian President . |
29 | The fact is , however , that it has helped both of them to survive difficult times : when he had a small operation , she was there ; when she was ill , he carried up the trays . |
30 | Any witness may refresh his memory from notes or records , with the leave of the court , provided that these were made by him , or made by someone else and read over to him when he had a clear recollection of the facts recorded . |