Example sentences of "when [pron] [was/were] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you know it , this is the last I 'm sure everyone 's aware it 's the last item on your agenda when I was looking at the agenda this item was before the fox hunting motion I thought well it 'd be nice to have a debate before the fox hunting motion because we would have er a full house of people who I 'm sure would be very interested to hear the discussion on V A T. As matter of fact I 'm sure they would w w would welcome the opportunity to have a de , a discussion , but it seems they have gone and I got , I got it wrong Chairman when you by taking the the the fox hunting motion it should really have , have held on till this time in the evening . |
| 2 | I was working at a hospital in the out-patients ' department recently and when I was leaving at the end of my shift one day , I saw the following message pinned on the notice board , obviously from an extremely irate patient : ‘ Time is a great healer . |
| 3 | I have , I did have experience with cheques and credit cards , but that was when I was working at the chemist , but now we do n't take cheques . |
| 4 | my legs , I suddenly realized when I was changing at the swimming pool , and thought oh sod it , who 's gon na notice , I mean , at half past seven , I really ca n't get that excited about it . |
| 5 | When I was waiting at the Connons the other night before you all so efficiently arrested me , I had occasion to use the phone-box almost opposite the house . |
| 6 | God , how I used to envy the Catholic girls going to the schools in Belfast when I was waiting at the bus stop like a fresh dog 's dinner to be carried off to Dothegirls Academy in me big grey interlocks with double gusset for the hockey stains . |
| 7 | Having said that when you were looking at the , at the sporting side you er you put in some , some questions about who he was , who he was playing er his sports with , obviously with the idea of , of referrals erm but because in fact I think because you had n't done anything to referrals earlier on , when you brought it up there was an obj er there was an objection from Martin to it . |
| 8 | When you were looking at the door |
| 9 | Or , if you could n't think of anything else , you just wore something blue because that was the colour you went when you were buried at the bottom of the ocean . |
| 10 | I knew she 'd better be told , otherwise she 'd get a bonnie fright when she was stopped at the paydesk and accused of shoplifting . |
| 11 | Is th another area that I did n't cover actually when when we were looking at the flats was erm , some people have s have around said that erm flats when they were first up in the first few years , erm were a contrast with the later years , in that erm they did n't have many of the problems , Many of the problems associated with the flats now , didn we were not in existence in the early days of the flats . |
| 12 | My dad 's friend though okay cos we were in the back of this car when we were shooting at the enemy okay ? |
| 13 | And it was er , it was quite amazing when we were going on the motorway we saw these cars with erm er er there was like Pakistani erm and Turkish flags flying and when we got , er when we was going at the night time to Blackpool it was crammed ! |
| 14 | The Conservatives are inconsistent , I mean that when they wrote the policy , when they were looking at the guidelines this erm I ca n't remember off hand what it was on page fifty . |
| 15 | Once , when they were playing at the Durham Miners Gala , they could n't raise the price of a pint , so the drummer sold his drum kit to keep the drinks flowing . |
| 16 | But when they were sitting at the oval table in the dining-room , eating Mrs Purry 's admirable steak and kidney pudding and drinking a full-bodied Burgundy , Penelope found herself next to Rupert , who talked very pleasantly about Italy , remembering that Penelope was shortly to visit Rome with the parish party , and told her of things she ought to see and restaurants where she might eat . |
| 17 | The four , of Bangladeshi origin , were returning a video to a store when they were attacked at the junction of Commercial Road and Deancross Street . |
| 18 | When it was pointing at the far corner of the floor , it emitted a stream of high-pitched bleeps . |
| 19 | In the middle and upper classes at least , children stayed " children " for longer ( it was harder for a child to remain so when it was working at the age of 12 or 13 ) ; girls and young women were more shielded from experience outside the home ; parents were , on the whole , stricter and more repressive . |
| 20 | American and British reviewers gave the film a thumbs-down when it was released at the end of 1972 . |
| 21 | The partnership had opened a new phosphorus plant in Oldbury in Worcestershire in 1851 , which Albright took over when it was dissolved at the end of 1854 . |
| 22 | One presumes this was to help him keep the short ball down when it was bowled at the line of middle to leg stump . |
| 23 | Even when he was looking at the ones like the Carmen at Ivinghoe ) that I think are my best ( or did then ) . |
| 24 | Paul , 21 , broke down in tears when he was asked at the Old Bailey if he intended to kill or seriously injure Oxford graduate John Lavender . |
| 25 | EXACTLY a fortnight after his unscheduled South Bank recital debut , when he was invited at the last minute to take over from the indisposed Krystian Zimerman , the young Argentinian pianist Nelson Goerner was back at the Festival Hall to replace the temperamental Martha Argerich in a Mozart concerto with the Philharmonia and conductor Claus Peter Flor . |
| 26 | Scott , of Holt Street , Hartlepool , was the youngest person to have the implant when he was treated at the NRI last October . |
| 27 | Swear when he was sat at the top of the stairs shivering he looked so thin . |
| 28 | McDonough was still playing for Luton Town when he was arrested at the Ritzy nightclub in Dunstable in February this year . |
| 29 | He held rival services until his return to Britain in 1852 to take up a stipend at Lee in Lincoln , when he was succeeded at the Beco Chapel by a Mr Hossmer . |
| 30 | When he was approached at the end of 1987 to become the Pru 's finance director he was tempted away , partly because the tremendous growth of PW had created ‘ more of a loss of identity as individual partners ’ and partly because it offered a new and exciting role . |