Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remembered the first days in New York when I ran like a wild animal set free from a cage . |
| 2 | Tom and Terry , but especially Terry , wanted to know everything about us immediately : where we 'd been to school ; what we 'd studied ; the history of the British constitution , or lack of it from an American point of view ; what the real situation was in Ireland ; why did n't Brian hit me when I responded to a proffered cigarette with , ‘ Fuck off out of my life , you wheedling Irish bastard ’ ? |
| 3 | When I became in a conscious way feminist I pondered long what it meant that a woman could not in such a way depict Christ as being in her image . |
| 4 | I had already gathered from the groom that Sir John had not left so , when I came to a small copse of trees , I took my horse deep inside , hobbled it and sat on a boulder . |
| 5 | I was nurturing this comforting thought when I turned into a large assembly room with numbered doors leading from it . |
| 6 | When I worked as a primary school teacher I sometimes retrieved that feeling with a particular clarity , walking between the tables on the hard floor , all the little looms working but needing my constant adjustment . |
| 7 | Driving away , I noticed that the vast chimney was still not functioning , but when I called at a neighbouring house a woman showed me videos she had taken of smoke coming from the plant , settling in her garden . |
| 8 | She was there again when I helped in a feeding centre in Seoul in Korea , when the people came from broken down shacks once a day to get soup and rice . |
| 9 | And when someone said of a close relative , ‘ He 's a doorkeeper ’ , he was careful to make plain that his father or uncle did not need to work , but liked to get out of the house to chat with other old men and to draw a salary for it , rather than a pension . |
| 10 | He had time to have a word with everyone and on the occasions when I met him in England he was more than helpful — unlike some of his colleagues in the Press room who pestered you for information when at Leopardstown , then pretended you were from another planet when you went to a big meeting in England . |
| 11 | Elsewhere there was a reconstructed hut which came alive with sound when you walked through a hidden beam . |
| 12 | She said , ‘ According to Tom Lofthouse , you did n't lose your nerve or your head when you ran into a real accident . ’ |
| 13 | I liked it when you did with a cute wee face . |
| 14 | The Minister for Health sought to defend the indefensible when she wrote in a recent letter to The Guardian about the abolition of the tests . |
| 15 | But Margaret laughed at him , and when she heard about a new God who sacrificed only himself , and gave bread and sweet wine to the people , she became a Christian . |
| 16 | Described as " quiet , genteel and beautiful — a real aristocrat " Maria can only have compounded her family 's displeasure when she eloped with a volatile Irish sheep shearer . |
| 17 | There was always too much to do and although she hated it when she came as a young bride , she had grown to love it and would defend it with her life . |
| 18 | She had gone a long way , when she came to a big foot . |
| 19 | Jessamy was halfway to the drawing-room at the back of the house , where she kept her drawing materials , when she came to a sudden halt . |
| 20 | Ms Sultana told the judge that she believed that she would only be truly married when she went through a religious ceremony in a mosque according to her faith . |
| 21 | Beatrix Potter was holidaying in Gloucester when she learned of a local legend about a tailor called John Pritchard … who returned to work on a Monday morning to find an unfinished coat mysteriously completed over the weekend . |
| 22 | When she moved to a secretarial college , we wrote daily . |
| 23 | Even she was surprised at Gedge 's tenacious loyalty to her ideology when she called at a local shop with him . |
| 24 | AN ACID house fan died when she collapsed in a fit and suffered liver failure after taking a single ‘ ecstasy ’ tablet , an inquest was told yesterday . |
| 25 | She was defeated when she stood as a National Labour candidate in 1931 . |
| 26 | He had hoped to impress her , and , though I knew this was the wrong way to go about it , since she was always embarrassed by emotional arguments , when she replied in a stiff , rather guarded way , I was deeply hurt on his behalf . |
| 27 | When we came to a final stop we were carried up many flights of stairs , taken into an apartment and dumped on the floor . |
| 28 | The beauty and clarity of our spring day was forgotten momentarily when we lumbered through a mighty ocean of dung and mud , caused by a recent and substantial visitation from the farmer 's cows . |
| 29 | The station was offered to us for the sum of £20,000 , but when we asked for a private valuation in the hope of securing a loan to purchase the site , the valuer valued the site at only £10,000 . |
| 30 | I began to wonder what was happening when we stood for a long time at Birmingham New Street . |