Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Schoolgirl fantasies were fulfilled when I was given my own dressing room and bathrobe . |
| 2 | When I was driving my new Granada in 1989 and dropped a friend down the road , a police car came past , saw the car with a black man driving it , circled round and came back for a second check . |
| 3 | Went to the Royal Academy when I was doing my 'O' Levels , it was a Jackson follow up it was about , ambulance was about twelve foot by twelve foot , it was literally splodges of paint all over the fucking place , it was horrible , you can actually buy them at the Royal Academy , you ca n't buy them at , but he was asking a hundred thousand pounds for it , I could n't believe it , a trained monkey could of fucking painted that |
| 4 | I remember , when I was doing my lifesaving certificates , that one of the very first things that we learnt , was that you have to , as the life sa , the life saver , you had to be in charge of the situation . |
| 5 | So I wondered what chance I had of outstaying Lebanese men who had picked up their first Kalashnikov aged six , or the Vietnamese man who had seen his mother raped before going on to kill his first Cambodian at the age when I was doing my Common Entrance . |
| 6 | No , no I did n't tell anybody when I you know I when I was doing me upmost , of course they knew afterwards that er because of me going in the hospital you see . |
| 7 | He might have had it for some long time , I do n't know , but I came across it in a drawer in the small bedroom when I was putting his clean linen away . |
| 8 | If something unexpected happens during an inner journey — perhaps one of your guides will appear when you were expecting your inner child , or you find yourself in a cave rather than on a riverbank — go with your own experience . |
| 9 | The news that she had in fact been successful in her interview went a very long way to ease her bruised feelings — so much so that when the day dawned when she was to start her new job she almost forgot to pull her hair back into a screwed-up knot , and to don her glasses . |
| 10 | A PROUD mother told last night of her joy when she was handed her new-born baby boy only weeks after she had been the victim of a hit and run accident . |
| 11 | My husband Peter and I started our collection when we were expecting our first child in 1945 . |
| 12 | I mean , other thing we really need to all , er you see , when I was working at it , and when we were doing it all the time |
| 13 | ‘ She used to burst into tears when we were having our happiest times . ’ |
| 14 | Actually what we 'll do is we 'll give you Er you 're probably a bit bigger than you were when we were giving you three er on three times a day . |
| 15 | One day , she came out to the perimeter fence ; another , she came into the kitchen when they were making me some food . |
| 16 | Keke Rosberg and Alan Jones , among others , were always in the thick of things even when they were driving what each of them calls a ‘ shit-box ’ . |
| 17 | Those who saw it at the time have never been able to erase the startling impact that it made when it was given its short-lived British premiere at Sadler 's Wells in 1965 . |
| 18 | When he was done he unstrapped himself , then took one of the white sheets from the side and threw it over her , watching as the blood spread out from the centre of the white ; a doubled circle of redness that slowly formed into an ellipse . |
| 19 | He had been her youngest son ; when he was born his two elder brothers were nearly grown , twelve and fourteen , and his father was already an invalid , dying in a nursing home on the south coast . |
| 20 | Alfred Pacquement and Jack Cowart of the National Gallery , Washington , the curators of the exhibition ( at the Jeu de Paume until 24 May ) , have focused on Kelly 's early years , the late Forties and Fifties , when he was developing his Abstract manner . |
| 21 | After all , if the British government knifed him in the back when he was pursuing their patriotic interest , what was the point of going on ? |
| 22 | ‘ I 'll find you a book , ’ said Joe , who needed to keep his living-room to himself when he was doing his specialized work . |
| 23 | According to popular myth , Law discovered he was on the list to leave Old Trafford from a TV report when he was visiting his sick mother in Aberdeen . |
| 24 | Says David : ‘ That was at York four years ago when he was won his ninth race of the season . |
| 25 | David and June met and married when he was running his own funeral business and she was the florist |