Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] when [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was exactly eleven o'clock when the nurse came to her and said , ‘ You may go and see him for a minute . ’ |
| 2 | MERCY killing doctor Nigel Cox walked free yesterday when a judge gave him a suspended 12-month prison sentence . |
| 3 | Never sunbathe between midday and 2 pm when the sun is strong |
| 4 | Or the girl with the nail polish and cuticle remover on the five-items-only check-out at Tesco 's , or the doctor 's waiting-room at 9.35 am when the surgery says SHUT and your child has a conker in his works . |
| 5 | ‘ We had an extraordinary example of this recently when the Department of Transport was asked to nominate roads for the proposed Trans- European Highway Network , and failed to consult Welsh Office Ministers before proposing the A5 across Snowdonia . ’ |
| 6 | At 10 o'clock when the Division bell goes , the House will have been sitting for seven and a half hours , from prayers through questions , statements and this debate . |
| 7 | The Soiree on 23rd December 1869 took place in one of the distillery lofts " a few minutes after six o'clock when the hall was completely crowded , upwards of 600 persons being present . " |
| 8 | After an introduction by the presenter , who usually speculates on the issues likely to be raised with the Prime Minister that day ( a tiresome waste of time , especially as he is frequently wrong ) , the programme goes live , with only minimum commentary , till about 3.48 pm when the presenter returns to summarize the exchanges ( another waste of time ) . |
| 9 | It was just coming up to three o'clock when the taxi dropped them off in the old town square and Ven guided her to the old town hall where , with barely a minute to go before the run-through of the astronomical clock , Fabia stood in rapt attention . |
| 10 | THE death toll from a chemical plant blast rose to three yesterday when a girl died in hospital . |
| 11 | Dr. Lamont writes that " Islay has no relics of the Palaeolithic age , but traces of Mesolithic settlement , principally of " kitchen middens " of small mobile communities , which are found in the vicinity of the 25 foot raised beaches " which were formed before 2500 BC when the sea was roughly at its present level , and says " It was , however , in the New Stone Age ( 2700–1300 BC ) that men took effective possession , pasturing their domestic herds , practising a simple agriculture , and interring their noble dead in impressive chambered cairns . |
| 12 | The following morning my crew and I were up at 4 am when the tide lifted us . |
| 13 | Trendy followers of top Manchester rockers HAPPY MONDAYS were shocked yesterday when the band — famed for their lose-fitting clothing and ‘ drop-out ’ attitude — announced they were set to tour with '60s ‘ straight ’ rocker DOONICAN . |
| 14 | Trendy followers of top Manchester rockers HAPPY MONDAYS were shocked yesterday when the band — famed for their lose-fitting clothing and ‘ drop-out ’ attitude — announced they were set to tour with '60s ‘ straight ’ rocker DOONICAN . |
| 15 | Wilkinson came back with an offer of £660,000 — and was cock-a-hoop yesterday when a tribunal in Walsall ordered Leeds to pay £694,000 . |
| 16 | It and the rest of the prison will officially be mothballed from 8.15 tonight when the governor hands over his keys and relinquishes his responsibliities |