Example sentences of "when [pron] [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh I 'm really pleased about that , cos last time on a , I was really disappointed I 'd been refused the course cos I thought oh , it 'll be right up my street that , cos when I was teaching full time I was quite into these er computers at the beginning and the one that went |
| 2 | The point of the story is that when I was using softer rods and he favoured stiffer ones we both caught , relatively speaking , no fewer fish than we do today . |
| 3 | When I was born two voices cried from my mouth . |
| 4 | Yeah , well when I was typing that bit — I actually said originally except Lorimer . |
| 5 | ‘ I was reminded of this a year ago when I was spending some time with one of my sisters . |
| 6 | Although I was still barely into my teens when I was spending this time with Maureen tending sick birds , I learned a lot about general care and identification — even if we failed to spot our Russian defector . |
| 7 | Strachan said : ‘ It came as a big surprise when I was told six weeks ago my name was being put forward . |
| 8 | I put my name on the list with everyone else , but was absolutely dumbfounded when I was told one day that it had come up , along with that of one of the other Waafs , and if we wanted to go we were to report to RAF Wyton at 10.00 hours the next day . |
| 9 | I mean it could work on that basis then , that if , for example , I 'm just thinking about , well just from my point of view , when i was arranging that date in Stirling with the Oxford people , I could of said well , Thursday 's okay with me is it okay with you until I 've checked with |
| 10 | I would talk and laugh with my companions but withdraw , lapsing into silence , when I was offered any food . |
| 11 | when I was doing that bit of collecting you know , and the people next , either side they 'd bought these council houses , you know , it 's a shame really |
| 12 | But I did learn that when I was doing full-scale removals . |
| 13 | ‘ Clarice Cliff was a hard taskmistress — I had to report to her every day — but she took great interest in the progress of young trainees and her husband , Colley Shorter , the chairman of her company , arranged for me to take day classes at Newcastle College of Art when I was doing National Service with the RAF stationed in Northumberland , ’ he recounted . |
| 14 | When I was putting this book together , an acquaintance told me about her ‘ getting-to-know-the-neighbours ’ spaghetti parties . |
| 15 | When I was cycling lovely summer afternoon , well er four i , about four o'clock and er there was three farmers round a big sign , in in there and tha that 's where I went up cycled . |
| 16 | Now when I was preparing this evidence , I got to this point and I thought to myself , why on earth has this not happened in Richmondshire ? |
| 17 | I ca n't remember now , I know I 've had a go to have a look at them to see how , to see exactly how , cos what I thought , what I thought I was gon na do was , I did n't like the furniture of the , of the speakers and when I was keeping that system I was gon na remount the speakers in the box a bit more you know decorative |
| 18 | When I was researching this subject , the opening exchange of conversations was so invariable that I learnt to recite it at once to save time . |
| 19 | We met when I was researching some material on community care , and her great good humour and flawless memory for fascinating aspects of social history turned a one-off interview into an intermittently enjoyed friendship . |
| 20 | ‘ Did you know , ’ he asked , ‘ when you were improvising last night , a cat sat on your lap for a while ? ’ |
| 21 | When you were in , when you were discussing these things in the l lodge meeting erm d d d did the younger men sort of indicate how they felt towards the picket ? |
| 22 | Would you stay there when you were getting attacked night after night ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Well , we certainly had them when you were cleaning that playbill of William as Lear at the Theatre Royal , Covent Garden … ’ |
| 24 | I mean you came out with a wonderful statement when you were advertising this programme . |
| 25 | Well for slings , getting bags out of the hold see the whole job was so interesting , when you were doing these jobs that was interesting all the time . |
| 26 | Ju I thought you were talking about the tombola when you were saying fifty pence a strip , sorry . |
| 27 | Remarkably , when she was given ungrammatical sentences to repeat , she often produced a grammatically correct version : she repeated ‘ She write she mother a letter ’ as ‘ She wrote her mother a letter ’ , and ‘ Do you want to go movies ? ’ as ‘ Do you want to go to the movies ? ’ . |
| 28 | Where shall ye now get as much money as ye owe ? ’ , and when she was given forty pence she bought herself a furred cloak with it rather than paying off any of her debts . |
| 29 | Allison Dutton , 24 , was working late at her office in Cherbourg , France , where she had moved to live with her fiance , when she was stabbed 18 times . |
| 30 | Two-year-old Leannda was sighted when she was born 14 weeks premature . |