Example sentences of "[adj] when [art] [noun sg] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither made a significant provision before 1820 , and their rivalry still persisted in the 1830s when the government began at last to assist them with grants . |
| 2 | But Ken Threlfall , general manager of the county ambulance service , said a duty on-call system , which involves staff responding from home , was in operation on December 22 when the accident took place . |
| 3 | In 1471 the Neville share passed to Gloucester , with Warwick 's tail male lands , and he also took possession of the remaining third in 1472 when the reversion fell in . |
| 4 | In 1471 the Neville share passed to Gloucester , with Warwick 's tail male lands , and he also took possession of the remaining third in 1472 when the reversion fell in . |
| 5 | I suppose for Australia it all started on Nov 2 when the Queen gave Nick Farr-Jones the World Cup at Twickenham , and rugby union 's Holy Grail thus passed into Australia 's hands … |
| 6 | This time , the results are not quite so clear-cut , particularly in the period 1982–87 when the apc rose steadily in spite of rising incomes . |
| 7 | Grandfather , the youngest son of Count Nikolai Denknetzeyan , was nineteen when the revolution broke out . |
| 8 | It was a pursuit which , with savage irony , took her across Lawrence Road , scene of her last attack in December 1991 when a youth punched her hard in the face . |
| 9 | The scandal began in September 1991 when an inquiry revealed that thousands of cheques had been drawn in excess of the account-holders ' funds at the House bank , thereby providing the offenders with limitless and interest-free credit . |
| 10 | ‘ On a personal note , in 1991 when the Board nominated me and the shareholders elected me to the chairmanship , I indicated that I would serve in this capacity for two years and oversee the rationalisation and turnaround of the Waterford and Wedgwood businesses . |
| 11 | That 's slightly up on 1991 when the firm sold a total of 5,225 workstations worth £47.9m — 3,855 of which were VAX/VMS workstations worth £33.1m , against just 1,470 Unix systems valued at £47.9m . |
| 12 | Club member Harry Porter ( born 1902 ) was six when the course opened and he remembers dimly walking the first hole with the crowd . |
| 13 | It was around six when the party broke up in disarray . |
| 14 | There was the occasion in 1979 when a valve malfunctioned and was ingeniously fixed up with a handy piece of angle iron . |
| 15 | In 1294 when the king demanded a half of their incomes from the clergy , a half based upon the revised valuation of 1291 , Canterbury was vacant , and York and Durham were occupied by royal servants . |
| 16 | It was just after nine-thirty when the telephone rang . |
| 17 | The stock market reached a record high on August 21 when the FTSE soared to 3115.1 . |
| 18 | Were , I wonder , those same cries heard in the West Country back in 1969 when a 13-year-old made his Minor Counties debut for Somerset IIs ? |
| 19 | The first involvement of judges , acting outside their courts , in Northern Ireland was in 1969 when the Governor appointed Lord Cameron to lead a commission of enquiry into disturbances . |
| 20 | Manufacture finally ceased in 1960 when the site became the home of Rooksmoor Mills Ltd , suppliers of high quality furniture and related products . |
| 21 | Ross Pope , who wrote to me from Chichester , recalled the period from 1916 to 1920 when the family lived at Putney Hill . |
| 22 | ( Datastream have recalculated the index back from February 1984 when the index started , to 1979 based on its original constituents . ) |
| 23 | There were several times in 1984 when the government seemed fairly near to defeat , notably in November 1984 when the pit deputies ’ union , NACODS , seemed likely to strike also . |
| 24 | America has seen nearly 400 buy-outs of public companies , worth $182 billion at the end of 1988 , since 1984 when the idea took wing . |
| 25 | Bradstreet again served as governor until May of 1692 when the governor appointed under the new royal charter arrived . |
| 26 | The foreign ministry which took its place in that year had fifty-one in 1895 , ninety-two in 1911 and 146 when the monarchy collapsed in 1918 . |
| 27 | It was a cold , wet , wintry day in November 1913 when the undertaker brought the coffin with Granny inside it to our house . |
| 28 | He was jailed for four years at the High Court , Edinburgh in July 1992 when a jury found him guilty of indecently assaulting an 18-year-old boy he met in St Andrews Bus Station , Edinburgh . |
| 29 | The case ended in April 1992 when the company decided not to appeal against an appeal court ruling made three months earlier [ see ED 55 ] . |
| 30 | This decision was followed in 1988 in Atkinson v Dancer ( 1988 ) STC 758 when a farmer sold nine of his 89 acres . |