Example sentences of "when [pron] [was/were] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She entered the trade with Truslove & Hanson in its Oxford Street branch in 1919 , and in 1935 came as my secretary when I was managing Harrods Library , which was then , with the Times , the leading large subscription library with a staff of well over 100 . |
| 2 | When I , when you were all doing nights |
| 3 | What was it like when you were when you were young starting work at that age ? |
| 4 | When she was plain Mrs Thatcher the former Prime Minister was a champion of free enterprise … in education as much as anything else . |
| 5 | Even when there was suitable Crown land available , chena licences were often refused . |
| 6 | The ways in which heads reported to governors before the 1980 Education Act , when there was less community representation , and after the 1986 Act which required governors to report to annual parent meetings ( and for which the reports were largely written by heads ) , differ from the task after the Education Reform Act . |
| 7 | It is more likely , however , that it represents a short period of dry climate when there were frequent brush fires . |
| 8 | It belonged to an age Claire could well remember , when there were big shooting parties at Riverstown , and she followed on foot with her mother and joined the guns for lunch . |
| 9 | ‘ We had our own large suite of nurseries in which to play ’ , wrote one of the earl 's granddaughters , from which , when there were big evening dinners , the children would ‘ creep down the back staircase ’ to be fed with sausages , turkey , ice-cream , and nuts in the ‘ comfortable sanctum ’ of the housekeeper . |
| 10 | I was with the South African team throughout their travels in Australia and New Zealand and found them an exceptionally nice group ; agonized with them on the eve of the referendum on reforms back in South Africa when there were last-minute scare reports of a major swing to the right wing ; rejoiced with them when the vote when 68% for sanity , a far greater margin than any of us had dared hope for ; and generally enjoyed with them their victories and their considerable achievement in reaching the semi-final stage . |
| 11 | Later when there were large sailing ships they used the deep water channel as far as Kingston-upon-Hull but they docked in the River Hull to unload their cargoes and the goods were carried inland by barges on the rivers to Selby , York , Beverley and Gainsborough . |
| 12 | Well that 's because , perhaps because , when they were young children people directed them in that kind of decision making , or look people directed them to look at those sorts of levels . |
| 13 | When they were alone Mary Rose said to him , ‘ You 're not going to lose it , are you ? ’ |
| 14 | Thanks to the forceful leadership of Mountbatten when he was First Sea Lord , the Navy 's development of its limited war amphibious capability acquired a momentum of its own . |