Example sentences of "the [noun] when [pron] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tested the brakes when he reached the top . |
| 2 | And they revelled in the moment when they mounted the famous ramp at Monte Carlo for photographs . |
| 3 | ‘ Forty marked the moment when I turned the magnifying side of my make-up mirror to the wall ’ |
| 4 | If he finds it amusing that he did not unfreeze acquisition grants even in the years when he had the money to do so , he is in a bad way . |
| 5 | At that time numerous Dissenting groups were meeting in private houses or cottages until the day when they had the resources to build their own little Zion or Bethel . |
| 6 | Well , th I I must have told you because it 's one of the things that er stand out that on on the day when they dropped the first bomb in I and I I and it was er it 'd be the thirty first of January , but I do n't know whether it was er fifteen or sixteen , nineteen fifteen or nineteen sixteen . |
| 7 | Having said all this I can see Wilko selling him almost imediately — this was his reaction when Scumtona started making waves last year — nearly a year to the day when he sold the scum the league . |
| 8 | It is argued that the Lamont onslaught had all the hallmarks of an embittered man seeking revenge , particularly as he chose the day when he knew the Prime Minister would be on the defensive , and needing all the support he could summon . |
| 9 | He did not touch her until the end of the day when he stroked the frizzled hair briefly and said " Thank you " , meaning it . |
| 10 | Norwich proceeded to stage a spirited rally and Seaman 's goal came under intense pressure before Norwich defender Butterworth scored his first goal of the season when he forced the ball home after Beckford 's shot had been blocked . |
| 11 | PAUL PAGE , 20 , of Langley Park , won the first major amateur prize of the season when he took the Berkhamsted Trophy in a sudden-death play-off with Matt Maguire after both players recorded one-under-par totals of 141 , writes Bill Meredith . |
| 12 | He finished sixth in his first Grand Prix , the South African , but enjoyed his first win later in the season when he won the Italian Grand Prix at Monza , and eventually finished the championship in third place . |
| 13 | He was staring into the black well of the stairs when he heard the noises . |
| 14 | In the morning when they wanted the money I 'd say ‘ I 've just got to phone home , ’ and get Mum to promise to pay , and they 'd have to wait till she turned up . |
| 15 | ‘ Think back , ’ said Mahmoud , ‘ think back to the morning when you asked the boy Farakat about his sister . |
| 16 | How can the Labour party say that in the year when we opened up the whole of industry to competition , in the year when we tightened the price control and made it clear that the customer is high on our list of priorities ? |
| 17 | Erm table show judges , we had a table at the beginning of the year when we had the gentleman from Runcorn , what 's his name ? |
| 18 | COLIN McRAE of Scotland recorded his second runaway victory of the year when he won the Carlisle-based Pirelli International by over four minutes in his Subaru at the weekend . |
| 19 | It was addressed to the retired rector of Alderly , admonishing him for past ingratitudes — for not returning a book , for not calling at the Grange when he knew the Springetts to be there . |
| 20 | Prepare a simple " contact " file with a page for every person and the date when you made the contact . |
| 21 | He hit the headlines when he won the prestigious Singer and Friedlander Sunday Times Watercolour Prize in 1990 , with a painting of the Malverns called January Bonfires . |
| 22 | Ronnie , 54 , hit the headlines when he thumped the mayor in the face after his civic car ran over Christmas lights he was stringing up in the centre of Frome , Somerset . |
| 23 | Last week Albert Pacey made the headlines when he described the criminal justice system as archaic and irrelevant . |
| 24 | I w I I personally er made it clear at the time when they changed the rules er er fairly recently , that I did n't think they should . |
| 25 | It was , said Fry J. , at p. 196 , ‘ plain that the plaintiffs , at the time when they executed the deed , had not been entirely emancipated from their father 's control … |
| 26 | It 's within the congregation , Paulo was writing , not to those outside but to those dedicated baptized brothers and sisters in the trees , said you know the season that it is already the hour for you to awake so he was speaking to spiritual people , spiritually minded people and yet here he is telling them to be awake , awake from sleep or slumbers , for now our salvation is nearer than at the time when we became the leavers , and that 's true with us all if you came into the truth yesterday , the time that much nearer now is n't it ? |
| 27 | Somebody said , well the Harbourmaster 's not coming , I said , right go back to work and that 's the time I , that 's the time when we had the first baby and erm , that 's the first one we lost and anyhow they put me off for a fortnight and erm I went down to , I say go up the Board of Guardians , that was like the D H S S but a little bit lower and I just start to buy this house soon as I said to this bloke , he live in the council house over here this bloke , what was interviewing me |
| 28 | That was the time when you did the fancy things on the top , aye . |
| 29 | The whole is a tribute to the diplomatic skills and national divisions of the Generalsekretär of the Kulturstiftung , Klaus Maurice , whose view of German culture transcends normal politics , as his recent enabling of the British Library to buy the complete series of Tauchnitz classics shows ; for at the time when he retrieved the first piece of the treasure , Quedlinburg was still behind the Wall . |
| 30 | I can also tell you , roughly , at any rate , the time when he entered the water . |