Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb past] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | It was when I went for a walk to our old camp . |
2 | Farrelly met Sinead when she advertised for a band in an Irish music paper . |
3 | ‘ And that 's presumably when you went for a smoke on the roof ? ’ |
4 | She 'd been with us for a year when we went for a day 's walk in the country . |
5 | The closest I ever got to you was when we went for a spin on your motor bike , with me like a ravished flapper on the pillion , legitimately clinging to your lissom waist , to those two wonderful hip-bones I loved to hold , as if they were the very hinges of heaven , whose wind blew your hair back into my ecstatic face : |
6 | NINE former staff at the old Williams & Glyn 's Bradford Branch were soon talking about ‘ the good old days ’ when they met for a reunion in one of the city 's wine bars . |
7 | Well he he 'd got a , and if I 'd got to do it you know , another day , his er perhaps start and er i , well you know when he came for a meal and saw all that ? |
8 | Sometimes , when he went for a walk , she followed him ; if he stopped to look at something she stopped too and when he walked fast , she walked fast to keep up with him . |
9 | But 10 years ago , Gerald Kingsland hit the headlines when he advertised for a woman to live with him on a desert island . |
10 | The court was told that Lord Apsley was arrested last November when he arrived for a function at Gloucester Barracks in South Cerney . |
11 | There came a day when he arrived for a lecture in army uniform and carrying a rifle . |
12 | He made these astonishing remarks when he called for a meeting with the Toronto Globe and Mail , much to the surprise of everyone . |