Example sentences of "when [pron] [was/were] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I was injured in the first match with Portsmouth at Fratton Park I did n't expect to be playing again in a fortnight . |
| 2 | Assuming that I 'd been able to drag the dinghy in a fairly straight line — though I might have gone astray a bit when I was stumbling in the mud — Joanna should be lying more or less straight ahead , and a good deal nearer than when I 'd left , for it was near high water then , and now it was about the last of the ebb . |
| 3 | I was treated abominably by the police when I was assaulted in the home |
| 4 | Cassock and surplice , a black cassock and white surplice once I told you that my grandmother was once living with us , she used to delight in washing my surplice and ironing it up except me when I was singing in the choir , I did n't take a , the treble solos , that was after the choir used to sister of ours at least oh twenty men , and as many lads and youths the as I say Johnny was in the choir there was er the two brothers and there was Dick was a incense boy and his father was a manager to go in the , he used to have a red cassock and surplice , but he used to Dick 's dad was the incense swinger and they used to go about swinging incense and that , I do n't suppose they do that at all now , but er your first job as a choirboy was to pump the organ it , have you ever been in the church ? |
| 5 | I even met one in the walnut tree when I was working in the garden one night . |
| 6 | Well now that , that 's the thing we did appreciate , because er in those days no , no house had got its own bath it was a case of a tin bath on the hearth , but when I joined the club when I was working in the , when I was thirteen I , I left school cos me being having no father I was able to l leave school when I made me attendances , oh that 's something that might interest you I was thinking about . |
| 7 | There was one occasion when I was sitting in the kitchen and I heard the front door close , and then footsteps in the hall . |
| 8 | When I was allowed in the child abuse officer was in the chair and he told me that his behaviour was the behaviour of a child who was being sexually abused . |
| 9 | When I was put in the police cells after getting remanded , the police were trying to scare us , telling us about lesbians and all that at Low Newton remand centre . |
| 10 | ’ But when I was put in the cell I was terrified . ’ |
| 11 | A. Quite frankly , when I was approached in the Chinese market , I looked around and wondered where the cameras were . |
| 12 | I like boxing and when I was suspended in the summer of 1990 I took up boxing and accepted , perhaps too quickly , a fight against the then French light-heavyweight champion . |
| 13 | I heard an amazing comment when I was sat in the North East corner of Elland Road for the Crewe game . |
| 14 | Now , Shelley , tell me what you were reading when you were skulking in the woods today . ’ |
| 15 | You could feel the atmosphere when you were sat in the car . |
| 16 | I remember my first-ever game , it was at a place called The Golden Sands Holiday Camp , and they had one snooker table , right next to the miniature railway — it used to be very off-putting when you were playing in the holiday camp competition . |
| 17 | Whe when you were did n't it happen Mrs that when you were playing in the street one day , you were knocked over by a tram ? |
| 18 | A CAT was the victim of a cruel attack when she was shot in the neck by a pellet . |
| 19 | Two of the men now hoisted her up , and when she was seated in the chair she slowly opened her eyes , and the first thing she saw was the great broad face of Betty Felton . |
| 20 | The ship ended her seagoing life when she was berthed in the West Old Dock , Leith , in 1928 where she remained until moved to the Newcastle Quay in 1969 . |
| 21 | It was true that she worried more about her mother now she was living near by than she had when she was living in the Tuscan hills , but that might only be because of the possibility that she would call without warning . |
| 22 | It was recorded that when she was speaking in the market-place she was audible by the Senate House . |
| 23 | Faced with actually going back to the barn , she was not now so serene about it as she had been when she was lying in the field and gazing at the sky . |
| 24 | For instance , I could n't believe it when we were kept in the dark about the team until the hour before kick-off . |
| 25 | Yes if erm two girls were in a toilet you were fined and they used to stop the money , oh yes two girls were fined it was a very strict there it was er quite as strict there as it was a H & T Hornes and erm you , you but you could have a drink there , but er at one time before they allowed a drink , a cup of tea , the men used to , someone to watch to see if , when we were working in the top shop cos we could see if anyone came up the , up the shop into , from the bottom shop into top shop then they put a can on erm on something to boil you see and er oh and we got a little sto coal stove to heat the shop , no central heating pipes or anything like that , and they put er someone you could see anyone coming up the , up the steps and er anyway there was someone , one of the bosses coming up so they erm whipped the can off , ran round the back of the bench wh where there were a lot of hand presses going and Mr walked straight he was only mad that off the can of boiling water |
| 26 | ‘ It 's nice here in the summer , ’ said Mrs Monro when we were sitting in the pub by a window overlooking the river and the distant fields . |
| 27 | It is n't even known where on Krakatoa the eruption was centred , but the chances are that it was Perboewetan , since the lava flows in the crater looked extremely fresh when they were examined in the nineteenth century . |
| 28 | They had not been reachable when they were phoned in the night ! |
| 29 | ‘ Are you afraid of the dark , Bobbie ? ’ asked Jim , when they were sitting in the darkness . |
| 30 | Berbizier 's decision to start the game without a recognised line-out jumper was a controversial one , even if the French scored all their points in a first half when they were dominated in the line-out and nearly lost the game in the second half when the lanky Roumat redressed the balance . |