Example sentences of "when [art] [noun] [verb] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the phone rang first , she paused , then shrugged . |
| 2 | When the boy had first come to the house he 'd been more of a child and had naturally been treated as a child . |
| 3 | It should all be a lot clearer when the Chancellor speaks next Thursday . |
| 4 | Some say that hunting in old burned-over sites when the oak leaves first appear is a good and fruitful strategy , but others insist that morels are best collected in old apple orchards at the time when the lilacs bloom . |
| 5 | He and his wife Adrian , 24 , were at home in Florence , Mississippi , when the storm hit last Saturday . |
| 6 | Behind her the two seats were empty , a troublous reminder of where Eddie and Laura had sat side by side when the coach had first set off from Heathrow Airport … had first arrived at the eastern outskirts of Oxford . |
| 7 | A host of big names will be on the critical list when the wards reopen next Saturday . |
| 8 | When the man had first arrived he had tried to torture information on how to escape from one of the waiters . |
| 9 | It was safe to assume , he said , that no more than a dozen MPs knew whether they should be reaching for the champagne or the shotgun when the Government announced last month that the business rate was to be set at 36p in the pound last month . |
| 10 | Oh aye but when the bloke went next door to Jimmy 's , he , he said where 's your vent and Jimmy says there it is up there , ah , and he got up there |
| 11 | When the Clarets lost last year 's final Joe O'Sullivan ( below , right ) was the victorious manager . |
| 12 | His ban follows a complaint by Warrington , who claimed their Australian forward Bob Jackson was injured as a result of a deliberate kick by Jones that went unnoticed by the referee when the teams met last month . |
| 13 | When the Demidovs had first built mines and smelting works in the hills , they had been fortified and special permission was obtained from the government for the industrialists to hire a private army for protection . |
| 14 | He had not read the Tower Commission 's report , evidently ; did not know that McFarlane had pleaded guilty to misdemeanours ; did not know the substance of the charges against Poindexter ; had not altered in any particular the mythology created when the edifice had first crashed down , in November 1986 . |
| 15 | Some of the archers thought that if the competition were restricted to longbows it would die out but , after a decrease when the steel bows first appeared , the number of longbows at the Scorton shoot is steadily increasing . |
| 16 | Even though tonight 's debate has been reasonably even-tempered , we shall lose no opportunity when the time comes next year to remind teachers who supported a review body and who opposed it . |
| 17 | alright ? , the only thing is last week , Jean said that when the surveyor came last time they took all the carpets up so you might , they might have to do that |
| 18 | More than 800 islanders died when the volcano erupted last year and 31 have been killed by mudflows since mid-August |
| 19 | They 'd had a choreographer in when the show had first been set up , but no-one had been near it since ; replacement dancers had to pick up the routines from the others , and some of the results could be kind of interesting . |
| 20 | Mrs Blakey , only a little less sceptical than her husband of this line of talk , nevertheless recalled how Timothy Gedge had affected her when he 'd come on to the telephone with a woman 's voice , and her bewilderment when the silence had first begun in the house . |
| 21 | They were furious when the inquiry launched last summer did n't ask for their views . |
| 22 | If only she 'd had the courage to tell him she wanted to end their relationship when the cracks had first started to appear . |
| 23 | At the event the desktop publisher was basking in the reflected glory when a lady sitting next to him suddenly said ‘ Oh dear , it 's all been done on a computer . ’ |
| 24 | It 's hoped that up to four hundred civilian staff will be offered new employment when an airbase closes next year . |