Example sentences of "when [pron] [was/were] [vb pp] [prep] 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 | I did n't see it but when I was presented with the job advert from a local newspaper the words leapt out at me : ‘ Lecturer : Special needs ’ in the college in the borough where I used to teach before becoming a peripatetic home teacher for pre-school children . |
| 3 | I was lingering near the assembled bottles , wondering who on earth could have brought the Bourgueil , when I was joined by the man I had seen stepping out of the BMW . |
| 4 | I was treated abominably by the police when I was assaulted in the home |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | When I was shown into the room I despaired . |
| 7 | When I was ushered into the presence , I did stand on the mat . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | For instance , when I was promoted to the Football League line , Alan Dawson was on the phone immediately welcoming me . |
| 10 | So when I was confronted by the station warrant officer ( SWO ) in my very best turnout I was somewhat aggrieved at his tirade about my flouting regulations when a strange apparition approached , an airman acting as the station Postman . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Can I say that , when I was interviewed for the job of er , Director , or I was asked along with other applicants , to put forward a er paper presenting my issues and concerns , and I can say to you , equal opportunities was a key one there . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ’ But when I was put in the cell I was terrified . ’ |
| 15 | A. Quite frankly , when I was approached in the Chinese market , I looked around and wondered where the cameras were . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I heard an amazing comment when I was sat in the North East corner of Elland Road for the Crewe game . |
| 18 | Wh where did you go to anyway when you when you were sent to the front ? |
| 19 | You could feel the atmosphere when you were sat in the car . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | That is perfectly relevant , we saw what you felt when you were briefed with the reference on the twenty second of December . |
| 22 | Julie was awake when she was collected from the recovery room and was distressed by the sensation of being lifted from the theatre trolley into bed . |
| 23 | She peered through the glass door , half inclined to look for Dana in the bigger stores , when she was riveted by the sight of her twin appearing from behind a curtain . |
| 24 | She did not protest when she was led towards the door . |
| 25 | There was the proliferative retinopathy episode a few weeks ago , and when she was hospitalised for the threatened toxaemia we found that her blood glucose was actually better controlled at home now than in hospital … |
| 26 | A CAT was the victim of a cruel attack when she was shot in the neck by a pellet . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | When she was seated on the sofa with a glass of brandy , he spoke . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Police said she had suffered a terrible blow to the back of her head but was still alive when she was tossed into the water . |