Example sentences of "when [pron] [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | When I was born two voices cried from my mouth . |
| 3 | Strachan said : ‘ It came as a big surprise when I was told six weeks ago my name was being put forward . |
| 4 | But I did learn that when I was doing full-scale removals . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ? ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Two-year-old Leannda was sighted when she was born 14 weeks premature . |
| 10 | Her central happiness irradiated the rest of her life , from important happenings , down to her mood when she was doing trivial things . |
| 11 | When we were discussing these issues in our Working Group the teachers often reminded me that we were not preparing a thesis for university dons . |
| 12 | ‘ The sailing proved to be an extremely enjoyable way of learning teamwork skills , especially when we were charting rough waters . ’ |
| 13 | when we erm , er when we were doing those projects we erm , we had a comments book and more , more people were in favour of them and saw them as an improvement to the town and so it needs something that 's really interesting actually , it 's er , erm the work 's department have said , as a result of those graffiti projects they can shift two officer 's from the graffiti team to the highway 's team , so it 's actually cut down on the work of actually clearing up unwanted graffiti , so it 's had a positive effect , so we , we 've got these two people work with the other people and we 've got Dorothy who 's working with , with black people and ethnic minorities in the town and erm for people who were here when this presentation was last given , er Robin who used to be in the local The Policy Team of the Local Government Unit is now actually a Community Development Officer , one of the decision 's , Robin use to do video work for the Authority erm , and we decided we asset whether the the need for that kind of , k ind of work to continue , and we thought on balance not erm and he now is running the music rehearsal space over at Latton Bush , that again is a project for young people , to enable , it 's a place where band 's can practice and that 's the problem in Harlow erm and er that 's really exciting project because it 's bringing in a lot of income for the Council as as well as providing the service that people want and , and it , I mean it is important at this time that we are doing limited projects where we are bringing in income , cos at , you know we estimate that erm we can get that erm rehearsal space properly resource , that project could be self financing , so your providing a service but your also getting paid , your getting paid for as well , so erm that is who we are now and were er , where were located , we have an open door policy as people will know . |
| 14 | And erm when we were doing these cards Mrs , that 's Scott 's old teacher , she 's very nice , very modern |
| 15 | You could keep them a as long as it was a reasonable way from the street as you might say and , and were fortunate because our pigstys had been built years before and they were ooh , suitably fifty to sixty yards from the main road you see , but I used to laugh at that when we , when we were having these pigs killed . |
| 16 | It 'd been taken a few years earlier at a family Christmas party when we were playing Musical Chairs . |
| 17 | They were so different from the lively Irish nuns , who , when they were passing some workmen unloading crates of beer into a pavement hatch in Nassau Street , Dublin , burst out laughing when the jovial brewery workers called out to them : ‘ Now , girls , steady up ! ’ |
| 18 | He was absolutely right ; shocked a minute after training , most chicks showed amnesia and so pecked the bead when they were tested some hours later ; delay the shock to ten minutes after training and most chicks avoided it subsequently . |
| 19 | In the late 1920s W. Embden , professor of physiology at the University of Frankfurt , found that German miners produced 20 per cent more coal when they were given 7 grams a day , decidedly a harmful dose , of sodium hydrogen phosphate . |
| 20 | In a Swedish study , patients with IBS treated with eight sessions of ‘ supportive psychotherapy which could be performed in any physician 's office ’ had fewer symptoms and psychological and physical disability compared with a control group when they were seen 3 months later . |
| 21 | But Nutty 's team just ran when they were doing other things , like to school or to the refrigerator factory , and Nails ran up to Carter 's field every night and down every morning and swam a few lengths of the Smiths ' pool to get the smell of compost off him when the others complained . |
| 22 | all them eggs you know , when we went to Alec , when they were selling these trays of eggs , er , we went there with Alec , so I said I 'll have one like , and they were really fresh , but when I got home I got that thing of , from Kwiksave , I got the whole packet , big packet |
| 23 | The workers must have felt important when they were described several times as being , ‘ Caesar 's heirs forever . ’ |
| 24 | Dr Bob Woodward and his brother John became interested in the pavement when it was uncovered some years ago . |
| 25 | The discovery that oriented bars and edges were the trigger features for neurons in the visual cortex was enormously exciting when it was made thirty years ago , but Levick followed up their discovery and found that there are orientation selective neurons in rabbit retina as well as the directionally selective ones shown in Figure 4 . |
| 26 | INVESTORS who piled into North West Water when it was floated three years ago are on the crest of a wave . |
| 27 | Of the 16 funds that made up our Global Strategy umbrella fund when it was launched five years ago , no less than four have come first in their respective sectors over this period , according to Finstat . |
| 28 | Die Hard 's action sequences won rave reviews when it was released four years ago . |
| 29 | . And nine times out of ten when I ask the congregation whether your church is bigger now than it was when it was founded nine times out of ten the congregation say , it is smaller now than when it was founded . |
| 30 | Retailers say Pentland Crown , the Scottish-bred variety which increased farmers ' yields by up to 20 per cent when it was introduced 30 years ago , bruises too easily and goes black . |