Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I got to the first rehearsal she announced , ‘ You 're all going to be in the Command Performance . ’ |
| 2 | But I was okay when I got to the first tee . ’ |
| 3 | When I came to the last two years of school , I wanted to specialize in mathematics and physics . |
| 4 | Then when I came to the third I did not like it . |
| 5 | When I came to the third class , the head introduced me as the ‘ expert from London ’ . |
| 6 | When I came around the next time all I seen was smoke … and I knew we put the final bullet in him , ’ Destefani said after emerging from the cockpit of his winning racer . |
| 7 | When I went to the first meeting I had been appointed to the job , I went to the first meeting and there in front of me were lots of people who were managing their own schools and they were organising how to spend money that they had been allocated . |
| 8 | Every month I look in your magazine for anything to do with Dalmations and I was overjoyed when I looked at the last page . |
| 9 | ‘ When I stood on the first tee in the morning I could hardly see the fairway , ’ said the Atherstone club-mate and friend of Paul Broadhurst , the Ryder Cup player . |
| 10 | Yet when I awake to the next day and my leaden legs , the flat is dark with disrepair — the light in the fridge has gone out , the milk is off . |
| 11 | For instance , if I had written six songs , one on each record , that used the Not Of This Earth technique of one bass note , three chords , pitch axis , it would be quite boring at a concert when you get to the fourth one . |
| 12 | Mr Smith 's warning coincided with a call by Ken Livingstone , the Labour MP for Brent East , who said on London Weekend Television 's The Walden Interview : ‘ You can be miles ahead in the polls , but when you get to the last three weeks , people think , ‘ Can I afford a Labour government ? ’ |
| 13 | Often a tape is purchased , with the hypnotist 's voice making new suggestions such as ‘ you will be relaxed at the start of your next race ’ , or ‘ when you reach the half-way point in the race , you will find new energy ’ or ‘ when you go to the next committee meeting , you will not feel dominated by the others , but will feel free to express your views without fear ’ : the applications of this technique are endless . |
| 14 | The sweat was running down your back all day and I 've seen me taken off my white clothes and hang them up and they were still wet when you come in the next day . |
| 15 | Now , when you say to the first person ‘ point to a row across ’ if they point to a row without a king you say ‘ You pointed to this I will take it away ’ . |
| 16 | But we are a few guys , not interested in politics , who will play golf with anybody as 50 per cent individuals and 50 per cent representatives of our country because when you stand on the 1st tee , they call … |
| 17 | Now can I er also suggest to you that in discussing this one outstanding item of the housing land allocations , we pursue virtually the same sort of approach that we did yesterday , er and in fact if you look at what is set down under matter One D for discussion , it says is the provision proposed for the Greater York area including the new settlement appropriate etcetera , and in fact when you look at the first item for discussion under the Greater York new settlement issue , we come straight into , does Greater York new settlement represent an appropriate and justified policy response , etcetera . |
| 18 | When she got to the first landing , her mother 's bedroom door suddenly flew open and her mother burst out . |
| 19 | The young woman feels curiously as though she is only playing at house once more when she goes into the first flat or home that she can truly call her own . |
| 20 | When she attends for the first time , she assesses the patient : if he is out of bed and eating his breakfast , for instance , she observes whether he can feed himself , or whether he needs help ; whether he has perceptual problems ; how good his balance is while he is sitting ; whether he is limited by spasticity ; what his posture is like ; and then whether he is capable of standing and walking . |
| 21 | And when she came to the last name only the fact that she was already frozen saved her from betraying herself . |
| 22 | The thought had no sooner entered her mind when she tripped over the first slat of the drawbridge and fell to her knees before she could save herself . |
| 23 | When she cried in the first therapeutic session , he could not move over to comfort her and was surprised when the therapist drew attention to this strong communication which he had ignored . |
| 24 | ‘ Are you alone ? ’ asked Helen , when she phoned through the next afternoon to the College of Further Education staff common room during Greg 's free period . |
| 25 | I think , I think , I think on the er planning report when we went to the last planning committee when the refusal was made highways said the access was okay . |
| 26 | When we went round the first corner at about 90kph Tony went very quiet . |
| 27 | When we came to the third hole I thought we were going to need some of that cushion . |
| 28 | Yeah , and I said erm , and I said that were n't , if that was n't enough I said bearing in mind he 'd just come out of intensive care off a life support machine , I said and which I think that , that tells us that he needs a bit of extra care compared to some of them on the ward , I said I know they 're all important and I know you 're busy but I said I think you should 've had a bit of priority , he was dying , and you know he 's dying , you 'd been told , she said yes that 's right , I said but what really broke my bloody heart was from one o'clock that dinner time he sat in that chair , we left that hospital at half past eight and you assured us he 'd go to bed and when we came in the next morning at half past ten Joy he sat there exactly the bloody same , in the same filthy blanket and the same catheter on him , oh I went fucking mad and I said how dare you , I said because somebody 's told they 're dying does that mean they 've got to be forgot ? |
| 29 | At this stage we do not know whether the " dayes ' are general ( which would imply that the missing verb is are ) or particular ; but we get a clearer picture when we come to the second clause " when I / Shin " d " . |
| 30 | Its appearance in Anselm 's later letters will require further discussion when we come to the next phase in Anselm 's life . |