Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb past] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was when I got bitten by the rat . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I used to envisage difficulties when I came to socialise in the Bangor area and would meet pupils . |
| 3 | All those long nights when I had sat in the canteen I had never realized what was happening just a few yards away on the Tartan track . |
| 4 | That 's when I decided to gamble on the chance that you 'd soon be returning to the hotel to freshen up before the start of the evening . |
| 5 | One time when I turned to check on the arrow on the tree , I could n't see it . |
| 6 | Keith goes on : ‘ We 've been doing it for three or four months now and the only problem was when somebody tripped running to the B stage , fell down and scraped their elbow ! ’ |
| 7 | Until that last few minutes , when she 'd stood in the doorway of the room and watched Nigel making love to another girl . |
| 8 | ‘ Peter , ’ said Sarella when she 'd got over the shock of what he 'd just said , ‘ surely you do n't imagine we can go on with this charade any longer ? ’ |
| 9 | The man who 'd caught Jude when she 'd dropped from the high-wire . |
| 10 | Driving along the Quay , Lucy thought about that morning when she had gone to the little bistro on the Place de Trainant to find Volkov . |
| 11 | The kettle began to boil , and she completed the ritual of tea-making , finally standing the pot on a porcelain plate with Windsor Castle painted on it , mounted on sterling-silver trivets , and crowning it with a tea cosy knitted by Matey back in the days when she had lived in the Cochranes country house , now almost derelict since Stair 's expensive debauchery had impoverished the estate . |
| 12 | He had been carried along by his wife 's extraordinary power of making decisions , from the time when she had walked into the offices of Glebe and Pargeter , when his old father was alive , and told him that her great-aunt had left her some money and she had decided to invest it in a London house . |
| 13 | So one night , when she had jacked into the sudden heavenly night inside her , Chesarynth watched Friend appear with less than her usual eagerness . |
| 14 | Matadial referred in some detail in her evidence to five or six occasions between October 1986 and the end of the year when she had discussed with the defendant his frequent beating and threatening of Paulette . |
| 15 | when you came down at dinner time , when you came charging into the common room . |
| 16 | You know when we went to see about the flagstones ? |
| 17 | ‘ I know , because one day when we went to look at the airport I saw water on the other side , by the road . |
| 18 | except for odd occasions in the winter when we had to go into the gym and dance with the birds ! ’ |
| 19 | The most exciting part was when we had to jump into the water from a 12ft high board . |
| 20 | The ‘ Penis Landscape ’ controversy fell conveniently at a time when something had to give at the ailing NME . |
| 21 | There were further difficulties when one began thinking about the numbers of animals required at the Creation . |
| 22 | Of course there was the occasional hiccup , such as when they 'd arrived at the nightclub to see a particularly gorgeous girl whom the Press had linked with Ace in the past . |
| 23 | The first seven members of the Roseberry co-operative had been unemployed for an average of five years and seven months when they began working on the Langridge Crescent site , and their growing band of colleagues has continued to include those frequently bypassed by mainstream employers in the construction industry : a deaf and dumb carpenter , a former labourer with a history of heart trouble , a young woman training to be a painter and others . |
| 24 | In the Gold Coast the last sentiment was potentially practical politics , for mass politicisation had begun among two important sections of the people of the coast , the cocoa farmers and the ex-servicemen : indeed , the cocoa farmers had first flexed their muscles in 1937 when they refused to sell to the European firms who bought 98 per cent of their crop ( fixing the market ) and also imposed a boycott on European imports . |
| 25 | Reid 's star began to rise with a vengeance last year when he became associated with the stable of Peter Chapple-Hyam who provided him with the horse every jockey wants to have — a Derby winner . |
| 26 | Hugo had been perfectly happy to talk at length on the Margie Llewellyn Show about the days when he had played on the streets of the Bronx , and how in this unlikely setting a talent for sketching had developed into an interest in designing clothes . |
| 27 | He had told him of the English girl on that first day when he had asked for the loan of the flat and permission for Constance to telephone from his palazzo . |
| 28 | It felt heavy and lifeless , in much the same way as it had felt that day in Spain when he had gone off the road . |
| 29 | It was not then but ten minutes afterwards , when he had spoken to the solicitor and been assured there was no mistake , that Lewis began to dislike his son . |
| 30 | He raised the mug to his lips and sipped the hot sugary tea , remembering the day when he had sat for the first time in Mr Corcoran 's office . |