Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb past] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was too easy to gain access to a Company 's computer records when everyone used the same communications web . |
| 2 | ‘ No , I gave you back some tearducts when I inserted the new model . |
| 3 | I kept my birthday a secret , except that some students wanted me to sign some books , and as I signed them I put the date and I happened to say that ‘ I am signing this on my 44th birthday ’ , and after that the news spread mysteriously and my whole class greeted me with ‘ Happy Birthday to you ’ in English , and today , when I saw the other class , they sang ‘ Happy Birthday to you ’ in Portuguese . |
| 4 | I think that 's when I had the first nightmare … |
| 5 | Another bonus arrived within a week , when I had the first glimpse from the sea of the opposite coastline of Koraloona , with its empty sandy beaches and the great dormant volcano of High Island rearing up behind it , while in the distance I could even make out Hodges , the copra island . |
| 6 | That continued with some effort for the next twenty-five years , when I had the good fortune to be introduced to Lady Collins , who had inspired a succession of what was eventually called Fount Books , some reprints of more expensive books , some specially written for her series , both varieties being published in paperback , at the lowest possible price . |
| 7 | In 1987 when I attended the Intermediate Command Course at the Police Staff College with some thirty-five other superintendents from around Britain , I found that my Ph.D . |
| 8 | That was when I visited the Soviet Union in 1984 . |
| 9 | ‘ Forty marked the moment when I turned the magnifying side of my make-up mirror to the wall ’ |
| 10 | It was only when I entered the Arab quarter , a network of dusty roads and wastelands of rubble interspersed with a few small houses just south of the city , that a Palestinian remembered the name . |
| 11 | She claimed to have been ‘ scarce fourteen years ’ when she wrote The Female Advocate , her most important work , which was published in 1686 . |
| 12 | Dayflower made history last week at York when she became the first Dubai trained runner to win in England and 31-year-old trainer Indian Satish Seewar will be hoping for a similar landmark in Ireland . |
| 13 | AN EIGHT-MONTH-OLD girl from Lennoxtown , Stirlingshire , made British medical history yesterday when she became the first person to start gene therapy to combat a potentially fatal deficiency . |
| 14 | A former teacher , journalist and Euro-MP , Mrs Clwyd has been MP for Cynon Valley , Mid-Glamorgan , since a by-election in 1984 , when she became the first woman to represent a South Wales mining valley . |
| 15 | BRITISH Airways pilot Barbara Harmer flew into the record books yesterday when she became the first woman to operate a Concorde . |
| 16 | Among the guests , Patricia Pinkerton , who made history earlier this year when she became the first woman to be put in charge of her own parish ; St Briavels in the Forest of Dean . |
| 17 | FIONA Saunders , 24 , made a small piece of personal finance history when she became the 50,000th saver with Britain 's oldest and largest investment trust . |
| 18 | No more than 14 when she pocketed the Scottish Girls ' title and the Scottish Girls ' Under-22 Stroke-Play Championship for a first time , Jane became the youngest ever to play for Great Britain and Ireland in the Curtis Cup when she was chosen for the 1980 match at St. Pierre . |
| 19 | She had drawn the curtains at the house the previous evening and was carrying out a routine check at about 7.30 am when she saw the smashed back porch . |
| 20 | She looked into the back , which was when she realized the brown holdall had gone . |
| 21 | Wild horses would n't make her ask what had caused it , not when she had the uncomfortable feeling that she would n't enjoy hearing the answer ! |
| 22 | The American was streaking clear in the 100 metres hurdles when she hit the last barrier and crashed to the ground . |
| 23 | ‘ Where on earth have you been ? ’ demanded Polly when she opened the front door . |
| 24 | Libby , a PE teacher from Ballymena , first met Simonica in January 1992 , when she visited the Brasov-based Marianna 's orphanage on a trip organised by School Aid Romania . |
| 25 | And while we 're on the subject , Rachel , what did you mean the other night when you said the real tragedy for anyone facing up to a handicap was when expected support was withdrawn ? ’ |
| 26 | That was the time when you did the fancy things on the top , aye . |
| 27 | The embarrassing thing is that we 're all very right people so the place is a mess , er , and it takes us a quarter of a day before we realise that we 've been burgled , because things are actually slightly neater than when we left the previous day . |
| 28 | But erm I remember when we got the original broom that we 've got in the garden now , the golden one |
| 29 | I mean you 'll spend just what you wan na spend in Spain , I mean like we , the night , when we went the first time , we took an ice box , but oh , we |
| 30 | Somebody said , well the Harbourmaster 's not coming , I said , right go back to work and that 's the time I , that 's the time when we had the first baby and erm , that 's the first one we lost and anyhow they put me off for a fortnight and erm I went down to , I say go up the Board of Guardians , that was like the D H S S but a little bit lower and I just start to buy this house soon as I said to this bloke , he live in the council house over here this bloke , what was interviewing me |