Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] when [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | That same year , for example , Britain 's Sue Barker enjoyed perhaps her finest hour when she defeated the pretty Czechoslovakian , Renata Tomonova in three sets . |
2 | They got away with it — that day and three more days in a row : each afternoon when she heard his whistle she stole out and crouched in the grassy fosse beneath the wall . |
3 | When , after that , we used to hear controversy about Dr Paisley and later heard about his imprisonment in 1966 , because of that afternoon when we heard the gospel preached with power and conviction , we found ourselves tending to take his side in the controversy . |
4 | And later that afternoon when he drove her home in his car and he seemed unusually quiet , she sensed that he too was remembering that moment . |
5 | It had just gone four that afternoon when she had her answer . |
6 | That afternoon when I arrived at Miss Havisham 's house , it was n't Estella who opened the gate , but a cousin of the old lady 's . |
7 | With reference to your telephone conversation with my secretary on the 15th instant when you confirmed that you had completed your mortgage arrangements with Barclays Bank PLC , Bishops ' Stortford and that it was in order for me to deal with the draft Contract when it was received . |
8 | In any case , I recall things reaching something of a climax one grey and drizzly afternoon when I was in the billiard room attending to Lord Darlington 's sporting trophies . |
9 | So far , the Ramsdens have sent out 30 winners this season and they are hoping that they can snap up a tasty hors-d'oeuvre before the Newmarket feast by saddling their first winner at Ascot this afternoon when they run Line Of Vision and Hunter Valley . |
10 | Abingdon United came back down to earth with a bang this afternoon when they were defeated at home by three goals to nil by lowly Rayners Lane . |
11 | But I 'm you know that that could go this afternoon when I go to a couple of other appointments . |
12 | Never had an occasion to use , well the only time I 've used a newspaper as far as I know this afternoon when I emptied the bag . |
13 | Erm I find out this afternoon when I phone in my hours |
14 | Last night 's mess and a more tidy visit this afternoon when he came to see whether we 'd stocked up with illegal drugs on our trip to Nice . ’ |
15 | Dwight Yorke was also guilty of failing to find net particularly just after the half hour when he had two chances in as many minutes . |
16 | Devine improved for the fourth time this winter when he reached 64.40 metres at a meeting in Melbourne . |
17 | Some moment when she , as a child , was on the verge of doing something wrong , and he could have fulfilled a father 's role and made her do it . |
18 | For a short while after it fires , the nerve goes through a refractory period when it will not respond to a nervous stimulus . |
19 | Another evening when she invited some of their friends , including Juan Gris and his wife , to dinner at the cottage , Modi turned up late , drunk and covered with mud . |
20 | This is a four-month period when you will need to be incisive and single-minded . |
21 | According to Vassiliou , US President Bush had understood the symbolic significance of any solution to the Cyprus problem " especially at this period when we have such an exacerbation of ethnic passions worldwide , particularly in Europe " . |
22 | This was one aspect of his life that Charles found hard to come to terms with , especially during this period when he was evaluating and reassessing his role in life . |
23 | We were always rather intrigued with their eagerness and how they all seemed to pick up and wallow in the atmosphere of this period when it was very trying for the squadron commander if he was not on the evening . |
24 | They could not have told when the music tightened its hold and began its pull , but to Taliesin , afterwards , it was as if there was a moment when he knew that he was able to resist , and then another moment when he had surrendered completely . |
25 | I 'm sure I told you there was n't another meeting when you asked me , and I gather there 's been a bit of a problem as well for other people . |
26 | There 's this guy there called Les , now it was put to us when we were down there last time that erm , attending this meeting when it happens would be er one Nigel , who 's , I do n't quite , I ca n't remember what he 's picked for , erm he 's actually been promoted , he 's pretty senior , he was basically in charge of the product engineering at , and he 's now been promoted so that puts him even further up the ladder |
27 | Well we can get to grips with it at this meeting when you talk amongst yourselves er as to how you divide up the base accounts yeah ? |
28 | Do you remember earlier this evening when we was erm talking of going through erm I said there were ways that perhaps you might be able to help me erm |
29 | For Willis , indeed , it was rather too quiet , but useful this evening when he had guests . |
30 | By the time the General Election arrived eighteen months later , there was a good candidate ( Malcolm Thornton , now MP ) , a renewed constituency organisation and time for the people of Crosby to realise that they 'd done in that panicky moment when they were looking for a familiar face as their Member of Parliament . |