Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They had one son , my father , who , along with my mother , died in an accident when I was just a baby . |
| 2 | Way back , when I was just a lad , it seems , programs for the PC were , almost without exception , single use . |
| 3 | The final section must have been built very quickly , because the path finished at the forest edge when I was there a couple of months ago . |
| 4 | Quite a long time I would have start probably with more than thirty years ago , because me Mum always make cheese and I just thought making when I was still a girl at the school and since we came here and farmed on me own behalf well twenty six years we 've been making cheeses here . |
| 5 | ‘ So you came up to London when you were still a boy ? ’ |
| 6 | Her earliest memory was of him holding her tightly by the hand , when she was just a toddler , in case she strayed too near the rushing river . |
| 7 | She bought her first antique when she was just a teenager — an Edwardian bed for £8 , slightly less than her weekly wage at the time . |
| 8 | The Nicholsons do know that Natasha 's young mother dumped her illegitimate daughter in an orphanage when she was just a month old . |
| 9 | When she had opened The Bar , Madame had kept up the costume in which she 'd worked when she was just an entertainer in other people 's places — she 'd worked in them all . |
| 10 | And then when I had my little girl er when she was about a year old |
| 11 | Her picture on the cover of Elle magazine , when she was still a schoolgirl of fifteen from a strict bourgeois family , led her to Roger Vadim , who let her out of her birdcage by marrying her in 1952 despite parental reluctance . |
| 12 | The house that I was actually born in is still there , number twenty five er after a while I moved across the road to a bigger house when , cos my mother had an another son and a daughter and then we moved over to the , so when we were quite a bit in the Stoke area . |
| 13 | The remembered light on the empty hayfields would grow magical , the green shade of the beeches would give out a delicious coolness as they tasted again the sardines between slices of bread : when they were away the house would become the summer light and shade above their whole lives . |
| 14 | There were cases where watchdogs did n't react , even when they were only a couple of yards away . |
| 15 | ‘ Somehow it was better when it was just a dream . |
| 16 | ( Act 1 scene 3 ) And , only three lines after this , the theme of belief in the power of evil is shown by Macbeth when he says that the witches gave him the Thanehood when it was actually the king . |
| 17 | ‘ Let's go down the Turk 's Head , ’ his grandad used to say , when it was still a treat for them both and not the stuff of nightmares . |
| 18 | We know Compaq wrote the specification when it was still a ploy — Systems Network Integration says they even have a prototype up and running — but whether this can ever amount to anything more than a high-end PC depends on sorting out fact from propaganda . |
| 19 | We used to explore the site when it was still a group of undeveloped grassy mounds . |
| 20 | ( Remember the story of the small boy who asked why his French visitor called something a shoe when it was obviously a cabbage . ) |
| 21 | The Gauntletts left a house , the Groves a school and , attacked by a critic for writing patriotic verse when he was neither a soldier nor sailor himself , Sir Henry Newbolt left these lines : |
| 22 | There survives a long and highly circumstantial account of his conversation with the Queen when he was newly a professor at Sheffield , and one is seldom in doubt that this is one who has moved among the great , and without strain . |
| 23 | He finally stopped when he was just a couple of feet away from her . |
| 24 | Apparently his mum died when he was just a kid and his dad was a confidence trickster . |
| 25 | After I took him over to Aldina Simmonds when he was just a tot , Turpie and Leon never met . |
| 26 | Her reactions had been childish , the behaviour of a spoiled brat , but he had a cheek to point it out when he was only an employee of her father 's . |
| 27 | Gregory 's father died when he was still a boy , and he was brought up first by his great-uncle , Nicetius , then a priest in Chalon-sur- Saône , but later bishop of Lyons , and afterwards by Avitus , archdeacon of Clermont , where his uncle Gallus was bishop . |
| 28 | Early on , Mary Pat Kelly became fascinated by what she read about the film which Scorsese made when he was still a student . |
| 29 | Peter , born into a working-class family in Edinburgh , had barely known his mother , who died when he was still a baby . |
| 30 | And erm she was saying that when he was there a bloke come round start giving them a little verbal . |