Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] when [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody likes answering machines , but if we are out at the bank , or out of normal hours when you telephone , please leave a clear note of your name and telephone number with your message . |
| 2 | ‘ You must need your head tested ’ , was one of the more polite reactions when I said that I was going to spend two weeks holiday walking some 120 miles up-and-down mountains rather than lying in the sun . |
| 3 | Since the Earth is about 216 solar radii from the Sun , the solar-wind image must be enlarged about 216 times when it reaches us . |
| 4 | So she ran through those utterly devastating transformations when she had been In Love , desperately seeking patterns , pointers — digging for something to bring back her joy , her I will survive . |
| 5 | Möllemann , the first German minister to visit since June 1989 , requested information on 903 political prisoners when he met the Chinese Prime Minister , Li Peng , and said that trade and economic relations would be dependent on improvements in human rights . |
| 6 | Most of us have no idea how much we actually pay for services , because in fact we do buy parts at odd times when they are needed , so the cost is spread out over the year . |
| 7 | Consider it as a kind of insurance for the odd times when you are not losing weight quite as you should . |
| 8 | He had taken only a few hasty steps when he heard the tread of feet on the wooden steps above his head . |
| 9 | My son Mark was eight months when he started and Rachel was 2½ . |
| 10 | Most of this was heathland until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries when it was largely enclosed . |
| 11 | He had originally charged only 10% back in 1946 , at a time when he was principally concerned with much lower-level searches , and had frequently experienced total losses when he had been unable to complete an assignment satisfactorily . |
| 12 | But the green smell used to be there and it was strong enough to make me think of English summers when I looked at the sky . |
| 13 | The man who had the responsibility of marking Chris Waddle managed to get forward throughout the game , the first time after 12 minutes when he stole into the box to rattle the Wednesday woodwork . |
| 14 | Actor Jimmy Nail , who plays the hard-nosed Geordie ‘ tec , was back in his home town of Newcastle upon Tyne for only 12 hours when they pounced . |
| 15 | Murray , who will be closing his own commercial operations when he takes up his new appointment at the beginning of July , faces the daunting challenge of restoring the Fruitmarket 's critical fortunes . |
| 16 | Their football was a credit to Hand , and Cecere ensured that it would at least be rewarded by an extra 30 minutes when he collected Maskell 's pass and tucked the ball behind Steve Sutton . |
| 17 | It was therefore a shock to face such hostile and patronising attitudes when I arrived . |
| 18 | But some times when I when people tell me that they 've been in a certain environment . |
| 19 | Do you know , there are some times when you feel : I ca n't stand this . |
| 20 | really serious you know there 's some times when you can get two cabaret spots in the night , you do one , one somewhere and then |
| 21 | Then having to kill forty minutes when he could have been in bed and now this : the delay in visiting the dry cleaner 's meant a vital piece of evidence might have been destroyed . |
| 22 | It seemed that I was asleep for just a few minutes when I was awakened by some noisy bastard shouting into the trench . |
| 23 | On several of the meres I fish I can tell to within a few minutes when I will get bites . |
| 24 | I had not been counting own goals for more than a few minutes when I heard extraordinary sounds coming from my wardrobe . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , I 'd been on the boat a few minutes when I heard someone pounding along the gangway and going ashore , so I knew I 'd been right . ’ |
| 26 | I had been walking for only a few minutes when I was surprised to see Miss Stapleton sitting on a rock ahead of me . |
| 27 | Jim took over the Old Bells when he feared new sky-high rent would force them both to quit the White Hart 12 miles away . |
| 28 | " I say , Lyn , did I ever tell you how I actually got into one of the old mines when I was a kid ? " |
| 29 | ‘ No , I gave you back some tearducts when I inserted the new model . |
| 30 | O'Connor consumed by emotion , burst into tears in front of thousands of delirious supporters when he consolidated his marvellous recovery against Freddie Couples with a No. 2 iron to five feet at the last . |