Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb past] [pron] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incidentally , he never did baptise my breast with Mississippi water ; the only time a bottle passed between us was when I sent him some Taburel water to stop his hair falling out . |
| 2 | ‘ You can imagine my feelings when I discovered it this morning . |
| 3 | The front door was locked , and that was when I made my first acquaintance with a venerable traditional figure , the sereno , an old man with a stick , a big brass badge and a large bunch of keys . |
| 4 | Well-that 's when I made my big mistake . |
| 5 | I must have been about fifteen when I received my first love letter . |
| 6 | If so , you will sympathise with my own feelings when I unearthed my first coin dating from the English Civil War : a Charles I shilling , probably minted in Oxford in 1642 . |
| 7 | I think she really took a fancy to you — talked about you all the time when I saw her last summer . |
| 8 | I was 14 when I had my first date . |
| 9 | As I tell children in primary schools , I was six when I had my first piece published . |
| 10 | And I , I , it was when I had my own car and I drove there . |
| 11 | ‘ They were when I left them this morning ’ |
| 12 | Thameslink was formally inaugurated by HRH The Princess Royal on 25 April , when she combined its formal launch with that of Save the Children Week and travelled with a number of children on unit 319036 to Crystal Palace . |
| 13 | He says they met Julia when she left her secretarial college in Swindon . |
| 14 | Signs of the tenacious Selina ambition had already begun to show at the age of 13 when she secured her first job on the Darlington and Stockton Times . |
| 15 | Firstly HILDA LODGE whom you met before when she became our Vice Chairman in 1981 has now changed her hat to become the Chairman and she is already busy in her new role , well supported by the Executive Committee which now has four new members following the elections of earlier this year — so please meet : — |
| 16 | Thanks to the operation of Murphy 's Law relating to parents , they were coming downstairs hand-in-hand just as Jo 's mother walked in the door ; nobody in the whole room could have missed the flash of alarm in Lorna Lewis 's huge , upswept , blue eyes when she saw her elder daughter coming downstairs with a boy . |
| 17 | Her last visit to the hospital was in 1950 when she had her first baby there . |
| 18 | It happened many times over a period of weeks and , between the … visitations … there were moments when she doubted her own sanity . |
| 19 | Just giving you an idea of when you had them last year . |
| 20 | I 'm awful , I mean , that 's why I got up , you know when you phoned me this morning , and said , I am sorry , have I got you out of bed , and I was like really grateful , because I ca n't stand sleeping in . |
| 21 | At the time when you started your first gallery was it unusual for a woman to be in charge ? |
| 22 | Before when we had our other range they were all the same price , which was wrong really because it 's a lot easier to get lavender than it is to get rose . |
| 23 | In 1979 , when we started our long-term study here in Taï — s on the western border of the Ivory Coast , adjoining Liberia — we were not fully aware of the difficulty of our task . |
| 24 | The family have been out in Brazil since February when they commenced their second period of missionary activity . |
| 25 | Vaux Durham Senior League FELLING , on a day when the weather was the real winner , created history when they recorded their first league victory . |
| 26 | The evidence , scrappy though it is , gives no hint of a meeting for more than two years , between the autumn of 1170 and the end of 1172 when they held their last Christmas court together at Chinon . |
| 27 | No prizes for guessing who Ian Chapman , the publisher sacked by Rupert Murdoch when he took over William Collins , was referring to yesterday when he launched his new company . |
| 28 | They were eleventh in Division Four when he began his managerial career as a frowned-upon caretaker twelve months ago . |
| 29 | He did not accept it until 1909 when he became its proclaimed prophet . |
| 30 | Ever since 1969 , when he had his first show , his cartoonish black-and-white paintings have managed to comment without mercy or a smidgen of socially redeeming tact on , among other things , men 's — and women 's — looks ( Warhol 's nosejob painting must be an important icon in his private gallery ) ; issues of health ( a hilarious series of men in the throes of having heart attacks ) ; bestiality ( pert Fifties housewife on her knees doing something unspeakable to a poodle with her arm ) and religion ( famous Biblical figure on the cross getting a pie in the face ) . |