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 | But I did learn that when I was doing full-scale removals . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Would you stay there when you were getting attacked night after night ? ’ |
| 6 | 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 ? ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ Except when she was doing grand larceny on someone else 's husband . ’ |
| 8 | Her central happiness irradiated the rest of her life , from important happenings , down to her mood when she was doing trivial things . |
| 9 | ‘ The sailing proved to be an extremely enjoyable way of learning teamwork skills , especially when we were charting rough waters . ’ |
| 10 | It 'd been taken a few years earlier at a family Christmas party when we were playing Musical Chairs . |
| 11 | This meant that even the more suspicious members of the Applied Psychology Unit 's general subject panel who took part in later studies appeared to be genuinely surprised when they were given subsequent memory tests . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | If that is the case , when Brent council was at its most extreme , when it was spending enormous sums of ratepayers ' money and destroying services , why , at every turn , did the hon. Gentleman 's party support the Labour party through thick and thin ? |
| 14 | Ogden immediately before it , and Science and Poetry and Practical Criticism , which first appeared in 1926 and 1929 respectively , was published early in Richards 's long career ( he was born in 1893 , and died in the United States in 1979 ) , when he was teaching English literature at Cambridge . |
| 15 | Bill , could I come back to a quotation by another former Tory Prime Minister in the nineteen sixties , erm they were ragging old Douglas Hume unmercifully , the Labour Party did , when he was made Prime Minister , and , you know , erm all 's fair in politics , and Harold Wilson , I think , made the comment that the democracy of this country had ground to a halt with the appointment of the fourteenth earl , and Douglas Hume , in his sort of very self-deprecating way and his very modest way , says ‘ well , you know , I suppose if one were to ask , he 's probably the fourteenth Mr Wilson ’ . |
| 16 | Alan Keen , Boro 's former tactical scout , won political promotion when he was elected Labour member for the Middlesex constituency of Feltham and Heston on April 9 . |
| 17 | Erm of Laurence Olivier , emphasized wro wrongly you know , when he was speaking certain parts into the if he thought the audience was flagging then he 'd speak a bit louder to you know |
| 18 | ‘ We are horrified that such an innocent young lad as our son Craig could be cut down in this way when he was doing humanitarian work , ’ he said . |
| 19 | His request was refused , and attempts to persuade the English courts to order the alteration failed when he was refused legal aid . |
| 20 | The Committee was one of the stalwarts of the Scott stable five years ago when he was landing hurdling prizes . |