Example sentences of "when [pers pn] have a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I experienced the problem about five years ago , when I had a bout of wheezing in the late summer .
2 You remember when I had a perm do n't you ?
3 Well thank you Chairman , I have to go back to last Wednesday afternoon , when I had a telephone call from a reporter from the Eastern Daily Press asking me to make a statement on the press release by Suffolk County Council stating that the Bungay bypass has been abandoned well Chairman I have to say that I was somewhat erm put out , because I did I disappoint I think because they , the Highway Department did n't have the courtesy to inform me first , and you can well imagine how I felt er having received this news .
4 I can recall an incident early one September when I had a net carried away on to a hedge .
5 Except for a year when I had a break from competing , I have been racing ever since and have won two club championships and nearly one hundred trophies .
6 It 's like when I had a letter
7 I was anxious to settle the terms of the contract with M. Chaillot and , because I wanted to avoid being cornered by him in Passy , I suggested to Jean-Claude that he make an appointment for me to see him at the radio , mid-morning , on a date when I had a luncheon appointment .
8 The only time I change the colour of my make-up is when I have a tan .
9 because you see I only use it a tankful once a day when I have a bath in the morning have a bath at night as well .
10 She gave up her jobs when she had a baby .
11 She was on her way home from a school governors ' meeting when she had a puncture .
12 That 's when you had a coalition government and erm then course he , they denationalized the docks then and course now ther one or two docks the they 're putting 'em , making 'em redundant because I said there 's not the manual work today , that 's like London , Liverpool .
13 It sounds posey perhaps , but Althusser says something along the lines of when there are breaks that 's when you have a chance to change things , a chance to nip in through the cracks and grab the moment .
14 You see the only way that you can really discipline them is when you have a school where the rules have been very , very strict from the moment that they went into that school and they have had their noses held to the grindstone with work up to their brows and they just do n't think of being tiresome and anybody who is tiresome is pulled out and put in a special room on their own , called a sin bin an which is rather boring and made to work even harder !
15 ‘ I can always tell when you have a cold , ’ she said , brooking no argument .
16 There is always a danger of war when you have a face to face confrontation that is building up in the Gulf at the moment .
17 I have enclosed a few things I would like you to look at when you have a moment .
18 I had kept him waiting for over an hour , though he was n't too annoyed as he had been able to retrieve three brand new titanium ice screws and a rope , left , we presumed , after an incident the night before when we had a helicopter hovering above the face .
19 On our more active days , when we had a go at volleyball or windsurfing at the beach , we were always ready for the 4 o'clock ‘ after beach ’ party at the poolside where the animation team served coffee , cakes and liqueurs at special prices and hosted games and competitions .
20 The one remembered was the time when we had a display comparing ‘ steers ’ against ‘ bulls ’ and their relevant daily liveweight gains .
21 I was convinced that something had happened in our absence ; something had indeed happened — it had rained hard during the night and early morning — which was strange for that summer when we had a period of almost drought conditions .
22 Then there was panic that he 'd be released today , when we have a life sentence to bare .
23 Nevertheless it seems to me that this is a time when we have a chance to examine the utility of A levels in their present form , a chance that may have been missed by the terms of reference of the Higginson Committee .
24 Pending the time when we have a balance of men and women in this Chamber — a matter on which I shall expound next Tuesday afternoon , when I hope that many of my colleagues will support the concept of more women in this House — does my right hon. Friend agree that public consciousness of the lack of female representation of women 's views in our national life is now very high ?
25 Mostly they were second-rate copies of the kind of American bar-room R&B bands the members of these pub bands had seen in the days when they had a bit more going for them and had actually made it to the States one time in the late sixties or early seventies .
26 They always had somebody staying there ; and we used to get into bed about ten o'clock — later than that sometimes when they had a dinner party !
27 Let them know what expertise you have and there 's when they have a problem , they come , is that the one by Mr ?
28 The only thing that gets me steamed up is when they have a go at you .
29 ‘ Then ’ in 1960–3 , eighteen years ago ; and in the meantime , apart from summarising my reflections and discoveries before they passed from my memory in a slim volume entitled Medicine and politics , I have done what most ex-ministers do when they have a left most departments — given the subject a wide berth .
30 That was before my time , of course , but he obviously passed on some of his skills because during , or just after , very wet weather , Sam would go off somewhere and catch lovely brown trout , which he often gave to people who were ill ; and sometimes when he had a sheep to kill , he would send down the head which would make a really tasty and nourishing broth .
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