Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following evening , when everyone returned to the hotel , quite a few fish had been caught , even a couple of Naver salmon . |
| 2 | It was a routine business arrangement for the prophet , in a day when everyone believed in the power of words ( especially formal " blessings " and " cursings " ) to influence events . |
| 3 | She had completed her notes when someone tapped at the door and entered . |
| 4 | for a time , the only way I could communicate was to spell out words letter by letter by raising my eyebrows when someone pointed to the right letter on a spelling card . |
| 5 | It was only when I got on the ground and tried to walk did I realise that I had a bullet through the top of my right ankle . |
| 6 | It was when I got into the Law Courts and began a long series of litigation lasting twenty five years " . |
| 7 | I was on two bags a day when I went to see me GP and I was on between a quarter and half a gram when I got to the hospital . |
| 8 | I only realized what it was when I got to the front door . |
| 9 | It was about eight-thirty when I got to the Maple Leaf , London 's only Canadian pub . |
| 10 | Practically the first thing I saw when I got off the train and walked along those roads again was Hairy Back and his dog , the Great Dane . |
| 11 | It 's relevant because at a time when I lived through the means test the one that , the real one , er then that would have been a very serious point because you could switch and turn and twist the means test in such a way that people would be continually at a disadvantage and the nearest I can think of what the effect of that was , living in a very working town , a very industrial working town and it was nothing like as bad as the one in London more recently , was the homelessness of cardboard boxes cities in London . |
| 12 | It was only 5.30 pm when I came into the main hospital building , but a cheeky nurse said ‘ Bon soir , Miss Veness , parlez-vous Francaise ? |
| 13 | This hypothesis was roughly confirmed by what I saw when I came to the quayside , or what had been the quayside when the lake existed . |
| 14 | It was about noon when I came through the trees out on to the shingle of the beach with the chapel . |
| 15 | The moment I heard there were rumours that the PLO is willing to be more moderate , that 's when I went on the first plane and went to Tunis . |
| 16 | ‘ It was just at the end of the First World War when I went into the seminary . |
| 17 | What was even ‘ funnier ’ was when I went into the car i thought Id switch it to radio 5 , to see how they could manage to report on a different game as usual . |
| 18 | What the crew were not aware of was when I went into the starboard turn and dive without knowing that my aileron controls had been severed , and the fortunate miss of the four throttles made all the difference to the immediate arrest of the desperate attitude of " Charlie " . |
| 19 | I felt this even more vividly last week when I went to the launch for Robert Harris ' book , Fatherland . |
| 20 | ‘ I got a shock yesterday when I went to the mortuary , ’ Constance said . |
| 21 | My most pressing experience of Wigg as a tipster was on one of the rare occasions when I went to the Derby . |
| 22 | And er we left and we never went back there , that 's when I went to the private school . |
| 23 | Cos I know when I went to the warehouse |
| 24 | Yesterday when I went in the shop , we get underwear and things like that |
| 25 | That 's when I thought of the mud wagon , the light spring coach Mr. Mendez and I had taken to Delgado 's that day . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In that horrible moment when I looked across the room and realized that poor old Eddy was dead I certainly felt something . |
| 28 | I had to have those three tees when I walked off the 18th . |
| 29 | This was when I learnt for the first time how experts conducted dealing for Jim came from a family of dealers . |
| 30 | I did n't at the time know where to , but when I had only about two months to go I too was posted , to Scampton near Lincoln , and who was the first person I saw when I booked into the Waaf Guard Room ? |