Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is when I got a real bee in my bonnet about British restaurants . |
| 2 | ‘ No , I gave you back some tearducts when I inserted the new model . |
| 3 | ‘ That 's when I thought a little research might be in order . |
| 4 | This theme will be taken up in Chapter 6 when I introduce the structuralist account of the relation between signification and social process . |
| 5 | What do I say when I visit an old Cockney lady with a fractured leg who has been sent home because the orthopaedic surgeons need her bed for the daily influx of trauma , but who ca n't stand unaided and who lives alone ? |
| 6 | For example , I had the privilege of visiting Australia last week , when I met a good friend of the hon. Member for Newham , North-East . |
| 7 | One day , minding my own business as usual , I was walking down a busy main road in the afternoon when I saw a helmeted security guard standing outside a doorway . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I sat there imagining all the pretty clothes I would have when I married a rich husband , but then Mary appeared with the assistant . |
| 10 | Then I present each of their problems when I chair the full care staff meeting . |
| 11 | On January 10th this year , I went as usual to turn on the aquarium lights when I noticed a female Shanny — now a light beige colour with a very bright green patch on the top of her head — inside the male 's cave , laying eggs on the underside of a flat rock , next to the existing eggs . |
| 12 | ‘ Needless to say , there were plenty of takers when I offered a small wager — but a few worried expressions when I scored five in the first seven games ! |
| 13 | On 6 June , in a year when I had no public examinations and ( like so many others ) was busily occupied ruining floral wallpaper by sticking pin-flags into maps of Europe , the Allied forces landed in France . |
| 14 | One of those days was last Friday , when I had a terrible time going to lunch with Herman to meet Ivy . |
| 15 | She came as night-nurse on the second of May when I had a bad attack of sciatica and left on the fourteenth of June . |
| 16 | I think that 's when I had the first nightmare … |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A clergyman who was in Manchester Cathedral when the second device went off said : ‘ I had only been there for a matter of seconds when I heard an almighty crump . |
| 21 | The problem is a really noticeable buzz when I use a loud overdrive sound — Marshall half stack with Shredmaster . |
| 22 | Even today , when I see a bad picture of myself , that thirteen year-old comes flooding back , you know , waddling along . |
| 23 | That 's when I need a big bowl of Famagusta Instant Golden Enriched Noodles . |
| 24 | I remember when I lost a fountain-pen Mummy and Daddy gave me for Christmas : I prayed and prayed , and I never found it . ’ |
| 25 | Abu Sueir , was a pleasant station , well-established and well-run by one of the oldest group captains in the RAF , and the adjutant was none other than " Happy " Day or " Wings " Day perhaps one of the best known officers of the pre and postwar RAF , " Happy " was indeed a character much larger than life , and even today when I meet a fellow student from my course in the RAF Club , he related with tears streaming down his cheeks an incident when " Happy " was taking the course on rifle drill . |
| 26 | The only time I considered the title of a book was when I found a large number of books from the same library together . |
| 27 | That was when I visited the Soviet Union in 1984 . |
| 28 | I 've not enjoyed a dip in the briny since a little moonlighting I did , some time in the 1500s , when I helped a Greek pal of mine sing some mariners to their doom . |
| 29 | Maybe I will have learnt say ‘ Yes ’ and I mean ‘ No ’ , or , ‘ I 'll do it tomorrow ’ when I have no such intention . |
| 30 | ‘ Forty marked the moment when I turned the magnifying side of my make-up mirror to the wall ’ |