Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tony tells us about his lone stay in the Westmann Islands off Iceland when I had to leave four days earlier than him . |
| 2 | I promised myself a break with the crossword when I had written three pages . |
| 3 | Yet , when I had finished three pages , they ‘ were all right ! ’ |
| 4 | When you had pulled five handles there was an article produced . |
| 5 | ‘ I remember the days , ’ he recalls with an air of maturity which seems strangely at odds with his T-shirt and shorts , ‘ I remember the days at Virgin when we had to see three people in the morning and three people in the afternoon , straight off the street . |
| 6 | When they went to investigate two men confronted them . |
| 7 | League high-flyers Academicals lost 3-2 at Old Xaverians and Cabin came unstuck when they failed to convert two penalties in a 2-0 setback at St. Aloysius . |
| 8 | When they had killed three sheep and roasted them in the middle of the street and ridden off with the rest of the flock , and the cattle and the horses and the hens , we buried the dead — we were at it for most of a day — and then we went off east into Arkaig . |
| 9 | Prospective owners were required to put down an initial deposit of £50,000 , which seemed fair enough when they had received 1,400 applications and at a time when the prices of exclusive cars were rising to the stratosphere . |
| 10 | He and his wife Charlotte had been in their early forties when they had married six years before . |
| 11 | Another deaf man , a David Bedwell who had partial hearing , enlisted in the Army Service Corps as a driver , and his deafness cost him his life when he failed to hear three challenges as he was approaching the gates of a barracks . |
| 12 | Robert Dakers , 44 , had not counted on the Home Office cancelling his parole licence for previous offences when he returned to face three charges of handling stolen goods . |
| 13 | He told how Stephen began draining petrol from the car , but when he had filled two plastic bowls petrol was still flowing . |
| 14 | When he had turned two corners and gone about a quarter of a mile , he gave Dann the pistol . |
| 15 | The Headmaster had decided that he would retire when he had completed 21 years at the School ; the Chairman of Governors had recently celebrated his 80th birthday , and was considering his future commitments ; the Bursar had also decided to retire : it seemed that there would be a new team at the top to take the School on from its 475th birthday . |
| 16 | Alan gave it back to him , but when he had had two mouthfuls he let it drop . |
| 17 | Robert Lowell has transcribed Eliot 's account of another such meeting in his Notebook : " You speak , " he said , when he 'd talked two hours . |