Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb past] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I played with the Lego I built a bridge . |
| 2 | When I played in the Wimbledon final , I knew that I had certain kinds of weaknesses . |
| 3 | ‘ So off I went , and when I got to the Severn Bridge , I thought to myself , ‘ I can go straight on and take him to Potter 's and get about four hundred quid carcase value , or turn right for the University and probably have nothing … |
| 4 | When I returned to the UK in 1937 , just as the Expansion was getting underway and when the RAF was some 33,000 strong , one could see more people at a mid-week match at Arsenal . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ Sammy took me under his wing when I came into the Northern Ireland team . |
| 6 | When I came to the Riding in 1960 I had been teaching in Leeds for five fairly empty years . |
| 7 | When I came to the Cotswolds and looked for a studio , before I even looked for house , I found a great barn , a wonderful old building , except that it was cathedral-like and freezing cold in the winter . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ When I went into the Leeds dressing room to say kick-off had been delayed , the reaction of their management and players was not as I believe it should be . |
| 9 | When I went through the Blackfriars underpass I felt as though I had been hit by a brick , ’ she said . |
| 10 | When I went to the DHSS I vowed to make time for a serious investigation into company pensions . |
| 11 | When I went to the United States in 1977 , I often ate what they called ‘ English Muffin' . |
| 12 | ‘ When I went to the Slade my sole intention was to become art master at some comfortable school . |
| 13 | Well of course when I went to the Isle of Man , see , I went on the boat and er , you see , and er it only cost me ninepence for a , a landing er for the landing stage . |
| 14 | Hospital appointments seemed to go on for ever and when I left for the Sahara , I forgot to cancel one of them . |
| 15 | Earlies er when I worked at the Ford Motor Company it meant getting from Ilford to Dagenham and starting on a machine at six A M in the morning , in the middle of winter or the middle of summer . |
| 16 | That first visit when I stayed at the Al Ain Hilton seemed in the dim past . |
| 17 | All of which explained that when I arrived at the BMC 's International Meet halfway through the week , the climbers that drifted into breakfast that morning looked like they 'd been on the receiving end of a very nasty artillery barrage . |
| 18 | When I arrived at the GA European Open , I looked at the list of entrants for the Lancome Trophy to find that I was right at the bottom of the list of qualifiers with one week to go before the final selection . |
| 19 | When I arrived at the Demob Centre , I sat around in a bare hall for what seemed like a couple of hours , with two or three hundred other Waafs , and we stared at each other without interest . |
| 20 | But when I arrived at The St Chad 's Deanery Day for Stockport and discovered there was a group of 20 people aged from ten up to 19 , I thought that things could n't be so bad after all . |
| 21 | This was brought home to me many years ago when I dived into the River Kennet with an aqualung . |
| 22 | For a long time Bayonne was an English possession , having been part of the extensive territorial dowry of Eleanor of Aquitaine when she married into the Plantagenet family in the middle of the twelfth century . |
| 23 | When she returned to the UK , however , she entered into the restaurant and hotel business with her husband Gordon . |
| 24 | At the start she would rehearse arranging them with the nun so that she would do it well when she got to the Hogans , but as the weeks went by she grew in confidence . |
| 25 | ALL eyes were on Princess Anne when she competed in the Downlands Horse Trials at Woolmer Farm , Liphook , this week twenty years ago . |
| 26 | Once , months later , when she went to the Regency on a Saturday night with some girlfriends she practically bumped into him on the stairs . |
| 27 | Her confidence and conviction that she was somebody special served her well when she applied for the UN job . |
| 28 | A Coroner has recorded a verdict of suicide on Nicolette Fame , the wife of the singer Georgie Fame , who was suffering from depression when she jumped from the Clifton suspension bridge in Bristol . |
| 29 | The Queen swapped her royal launch for a River Bus on June 9 , when she travelled on the Thames to a private viewing of the P&O sponsored Chelsea Harbour Sculpture 93 . |
| 30 | When she stayed in the Berry chalet she slept on the living-room sofa . |