Example sentences of "when [pron] [was/were] [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , imagine my relief when I was called to the front porch , and I was greeted by a cheery ‘ American Red Cross reporting for duty Ma'am . |
| 2 | During his three years at University College , London , he got work each Christmas with the post office in his home town of Woking : ‘ When I was coming to the end of my university period I sat a civil service examination with possible jobs at the end which included income tax , the secret service and the post office which involved travelling as a management trainee . |
| 3 | You do n't wan na be ill cos when I was admitted to the san I nearly died , I tried everything to get out the san and she just would n't |
| 4 | For instance , when I was promoted to the Football League line , Alan Dawson was on the phone immediately welcoming me . |
| 5 | I got to , when I was going to the little school I got told the little ones . |
| 6 | Erm Mi Michelle when I was going to the bank . |
| 7 | ‘ I glimpsed you out of the corner of my eye when I was talking to the porter . ’ |
| 8 | Wh where did you go to anyway when you when you were sent to the front ? |
| 9 | The Ithusheng Community Association was founded more than 10 years ago by well-known South African physician and political activist Dr Mamphela Ramphele , when she was banished to the rural village of Lenyenye in one of the so-called black homelands in the North Eastern Transvaal . |
| 10 | Stephen Whitley 's widow Constance Whitley , 34 , told Cheshire 's deputy Coroner John Pollard , how she was in their terrace home in Mill Lane , Great Sutton , on the evening of March 4 , when she was alerted to the fire by sounds coming from the garage , a few yards from the house . |
| 11 | In 1971 I was in command of Venturous when she was sent to the North West Coast of Scotland , a winter patrol specifically designed to keep a check on the foreign fishing fleets engaged in " Klondyking " . |
| 12 | The high-light of Topaz 's season came when she was introduced to the Prince Regent . |
| 13 | Sarella could n't let the side down , and when she was pulled to the front she leaned against the piano and , after a whispered word to the pianist , started to sing . |
| 14 | Claire was 15 months old when she was admitted to the children 's ward suffering from asthma . |
| 15 | She had a divinity degree from London University and had completed part of a law course at Lagos University when she was admitted to the faculty in 1983 as an entrant preparing to sit her bar exams . |
| 16 | She edged quietly towards the door , but did n't manage to get further than the edge of the chair when she was pinned to the spot by fierce grey eyes . |
| 17 | When we were talking to the builders tha he were putting that in . |
| 18 | ‘ I saw him look at it in the car when we were driving to the Lubianka . |
| 19 | The kind of social relationship which existed between certain teachers and this group of boys became very apparent when one examined the terms of reference used by the boys when they were referring to the teachers and themselves ; ‘ us ’ and ‘ them ’ . |
| 20 | The cartoons caused outrage when they were leaked to the press last week . |
| 21 | Court dress was the particular form of costume worn by ladies when they were presented to the monarch . |
| 22 | Indeed , none of these statements , apart from two short but damning extracts from Zaidie 's statement which the prosecution put into evidence , came to light at all ( and consequently were not available to the Court of Appeal ) until 20 July 1990 , three days before the presentation of the petition for special leave to appeal , when they were furnished to the defendant 's advisers at the insistence of Mr. Guthrie who had by then been instructed on behalf of the Crown . |
| 23 | And they always travelled separately , even when they were going to the same function . |
| 24 | After 8 April the aluminium returned to tapwater when a mains burst : sludge was found at the bottom of a glass of water but when it was sent to the authority for analysis it was discarded as ‘ too sludgy ’ . |
| 25 | Einstein became the success of the 1976 Avignon Festival and established Glass 's reputation in America when it was brought to the Metropolitan Opera House later that year . |
| 26 | You must have heard the old story about the bucket of water ; when it was shown to the optimist he described it as being ‘ half full ’ while the pessimist said that it was ‘ half empty ’ . |
| 27 | Until 1623 the picture hung in the Kunstkammer of Prague Castle , when it was sold to the art dealer Daniel de Bries for the exceptionally high price of 400 talers . |
| 28 | In 1595 Crosse was preparing to accompany Ralegh to Guiana when he was recalled to the navy at the queen 's specific order . |
| 29 | When he was presented to the church of Northampton , Robert Grosseteste , the saintly Bishop of Lincoln , refused to admit him . |
| 30 | He was evidently a magister by 1273 ( of Oxford University , according to the fifteenth-century antiquarian William Worcester , q.v. ) , when he was presented to the rectory of Steppingley ( Bedfordshire ) by Dunstable Priory . |