Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb past] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I ran the Alliance of Small Firms , we had regular visitors every year sponsored by the Government of Korea , who wined and dined small business men and tried to persuade them to take their work to Korea to be done . |
| 2 | When I parked the car at Woodside , I noticed the lights were on in the apartment next to mine . |
| 3 | I thought that I had finished third , but when I studied the television slow-motion replay on the stadium scoreboard I could see that in fact Ray had won the bronze medal . |
| 4 | ‘ I was 17 years old when I committed the offence for which I was sentenced to die , and I did n't even start thinking and caring about my life until I was at least 20 . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It had always been her ambition to go to the Holy Land and so when I arranged the trip I told her ‘ Right , now you 're going ’ . |
| 6 | Now , I can hold my liquor as well as the next man , so it is ludicrous to suggest that when I reversed the club van into the tea hut I was under the influence . |
| 7 | ‘ When I realised the ring had probably gone back to England that was one of the first things I checked . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I did n't leave no mud when I cleaned the floor yesterday , ’ said Mary . |
| 9 | Only when I ordered the boatman to take us to Syon did my master break free of his reverie . |
| 10 | I remember thinking that the soldier had a face now , and though his head remained slobbering in her breast when I plunged the blade through the thick khaki , I saw the sudden sharp pain jolt through his eyes . |
| 11 | The accused , who pleaded guilty , said , ‘ I felt the devil and his horns on my head when I plunged the knife through his heart . ’ |
| 12 | The woman wore a dress that seemed very short when I recalled the picture through the next few years : broad shoulders , a straight skirt that hung the way it did — I know now — because it had some rayon in it . |
| 13 | ‘ You know , that was the best time of my life , when I drove the Truck , ’ said Angalo dreamily . |
| 14 | ‘ What a shock for you when I accepted the position , ’ Maria snapped . |
| 15 | He said er we had a big hoo hah he said er I borrowed some money off him he said some time ago to do something with and I had n't got the money he said and when I sold the plot of land he said I paid him back what I owed him cos borrow the money . |
| 16 | ‘ When I received the OBE in 1970 I thought that was more than enough , so that is what makes this such a bonus . ’ |
| 17 | I put in when I planted the garden because I thought that would be useful to know the next year . |
| 18 | This was the first occasion when I experienced the disillusion of actually seeing a place I had come to love through a poem — that had been , in Drinkwater 's phrase , ‘ lissom in a dream ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ All my friends were concerned for me when I got the part , ’ Kilmer admits . |
| 20 | When I got the part of Rachael in Bread back in ‘ 89 I thought ‘ this is it ’ . |
| 21 | I 'ad a long stint wiv Galloway an' I was gutted when I got the push an' we 'ad ter get out o' the 'ouse . |
| 22 | I decided to mention it to him when I got the chance . |
| 23 | I just could n't keep away from her when I got the chance to escape from Rocamar the other day . |
| 24 | When I got the invitation , I said ‘ Well , gladly I will accept . ’ |
| 25 | When I got the nod that the Government was looking for ex-army officers to form a new force for service in Ireland , I tell you , Eric , I thought my prayers had been answered . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I have no idea why he picked me , but when I got the call , I screamed with delight . |
| 27 | ‘ When I got the call to come to Belgium I had a few things to do , ’ he explained . |
| 28 | A.Q. : Towards five-thirty this morning , having just got back from the flower market , I was working in the front quarters of my shop when I got the idea I 'd heard a funny noise just outside the window … |
| 29 | ‘ When I got the sack , then it gave me the chance to paint really hard . |
| 30 | I say to daddy , when I got the money mate and I 've now I 'm now putting ten pound a week for fat Harry . |