Example sentences of "when [pers pn] was [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The firm represented Paula when she was given a conditional discharge for causing £570 damage to a taxi in a drunken rage . |
| 2 | At about ten-thirty when she was running a long bath , Emma knocked on the door . |
| 3 | Cabinet ministers were exasperated that he allowed last Thursday , when he was facing a big test in the Commons , to be dominated by the resignation of a junior member of the Cabinet . |
| 4 | Reformed junkie Davies , who has served two prison sentences , met stunning Fiona Brown , 28 , when he was given a two-year probation order for theft . |
| 5 | • After serving 18 months in the wilderness as punishment for running Michael Heseltine 's leadership challenge , East Hampshire MP Michael Mates was welcomed in from the cold this week when he was given a ministerial post by the Prime Minister . |
| 6 | The turning point was Denis Law 's infamous transfer debacle in 1973 when he was given a free transfer by United and crossed Manchester to Maine Road to join Manchester City . |
| 7 | Later that evening , when he was playing a desultory game of Scrabble with Broughton and Hoddnett , two of the older boys , he casually brought the subject up . |
| 8 | This was both a matter of pride and of business sense at a time when he was making a major export drive towards America . |
| 9 | The most blatant example came in 1981 when it was made a criminal contempt punishable with two years ' imprisonment for journalists , after a trial was over , to interview jurors about their deliberations . |
| 10 | Abortion was a common-law crime until 1803 , when it was made a statutory offence . |
| 11 | Ashton-under-Lyne was given a rigid grid of wide streets by the Earls of Stamtord after 1758 when it was becoming an important cotton town . |