Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [verb] [pron] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I must have been about fifteen when I received my first love letter . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I think she really took a fancy to you — talked about you all the time when I saw her last summer . |
| 5 | I was 14 when I had my first date . |
| 6 | As I tell children in primary schools , I was six when I had my first piece published . |
| 7 | Except where marriage occurs at a very young age , the earlier a woman marries , the younger she is when she bears her first child , and the more children she has when she reaches the end of her reproductive years , other things being equal . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Liz will provide the voice-over for baby Little Maggie when she says her first word — ‘ Daddy ! ’ |
| 10 | Her last visit to the hospital was in 1950 when she had her first baby there . |
| 11 | Many local people are already asking when she begins her next fundraising venture . |
| 12 | Just giving you an idea of when you had them last year . |
| 13 | at the moment now next month when you get your next bill that ten pound thirty will be worth about twenty ninety one . |
| 14 | Being nervous and taking risks are two of the main things you will have to face as an aspiring actor , and that first time you read a play with a group of strangers , rather than in a classroom or among friends is when you confront your first hurdle . |
| 15 | At the time when you started your first gallery was it unusual for a woman to be in charge ? |
| 16 | The family have been out in Brazil since February when they commenced their second period of missionary activity . |
| 17 | Vaux Durham Senior League FELLING , on a day when the weather was the real winner , created history when they recorded their first league victory . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | From 1940 , when he made his first broadcast as a quiz-master in the BBC radio series Ack , Ack , Beer , Beer , he was a constant broadcaster and in 1943 , by then stationed at the Air Ministry in London , he created and wrote with Squadron Leader Richard Murdoch the long-running radio series Much Binding in the Marsh , a take-off of a fictitious RAF station . |
| 21 | I must tell you that this infant has never cried at all apart from at the moment of birth when he took his first breath — and that must be accepted as an unavoidable demand for satisfaction of an impossible desire . |
| 22 | And a lot will depend on the 27-year-old tomorrow when he gets his first taste of League of Ireland football . |
| 23 | By 3 February 1722 , when he registered his first maker 's marks at Goldsmiths ' Hall , he had set up in Threadneedle Street , a move made possible by his marriage on 9 January 1722 to Alder , wealthy daughter of Samuel Phelpes , gentleman merchant , and Mary Aldworth , descendant of merchant princes linked with the East India Company and the Society of Merchant Adventurers of Bristol . |
| 24 | He had been coming regularly for almost sixty years , and was only fourteen when he bought his first pony there for £4.10s . |
| 25 | By the end of that season , when he won his first championship by a large margin , I had little doubt who had achieved the triumph : Niki is no braggart , but in the first of many longish talks , he explained to me that his nature was such that he really just could n't stand the second-rate ; and if you saw the second-rate around you , you had a clear choice — either you cleared out and found yourself the first-rate or you simply demanded that second-rate people became first-rate . |
| 26 | Bryant , he of the slicked hair , spectacles , mouthful of teeth and curly pipe , was 21 when he won his first county title and first played for England in 1958 . |
| 27 | Brahms took three years to complete his second piano concerto , and he was 48 when it had its first performance ( 1881 ) with himself as soloist , in Budapest — then the twin capital , with Vienna , of the Austro-Hungarian Empire . |
| 28 | started manufacturing extruded products in 1964 , with the current Omega brand being launched in 1976. exports business grew rapidly through to 1988 when it won its first Queen 's Award for Export . |