Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [vb past] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | when I had some breakfast . |
| 2 | I went out to the theatre and the opera a lot , and when I had some time off , I was usually able to get away somewhere . |
| 3 | I was standing motionless by the desk , and gazing vacantly at the letter , when I heard some footsteps outside the door . |
| 4 | This was further demonstrated by the fact that , when I murmured some apologies that I must leave , he insisted on my staying for some tea . |
| 5 | I arrived at my quarter at what time I do not know due to me being very intoxicated and when I awoke some hours later I discovered the following ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ Last monsoon when I needed some musk to rub on a snake-bite , I did n't have to look far . |
| 7 | when I wanted some help or who to invite to meetings but because I have n't got a reply from everyone or most people , it ca n't work does it ? |
| 8 | Midwife Christine Hall told the hearing that she could not remember whether she notified the registrar when she noticed some deceleration in the heartbeat at 4.25pm but did so when she became worried at 7.30pm . |
| 9 | She thought that the first thing she would do when she earned some money would be to buy a house or a caravan like they had in Turpin 's Field , so that whatever happened they could all be together , safe for ever and ever . |
| 10 | And of course , when Corrie left , changed into her new suit , her mother , emotional after the ceremony , had had another little upset at the fact that she was going away too , just when she needed some comfort for one daughter 's departure . |
| 11 | DR ALBAN met his girlfriend when she tried some clothes on in his Stockholm boutique … |
| 12 | ‘ It is unnatural , ’ said the Sheikha when we met some months later . |
| 13 | He went back into Iraq , in the marshes , at great personal danger to himself and translated for me when we met some Shias . |
| 14 | ‘ On our first date we were driving through the countryside when we spotted some sheep out in a field . |
| 15 | And then we had the er the battledress was issued , the khaki , and erm we was had our head headquarters were started , the headquarters were started in an office at , one of the office rooms at the at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company by the , the top offices we used to call them , by the gates , we had one of the rooms there for and it eventually became the armoury when we got some equipment because rifles etcetera was in very short supply after Dun Dunkirk So eventually we had a few rifles and er when the er we got a few rifles and er the sirens went it was the practice at the beginning when the sirens went in this area for everything to stop and everyone down the shelter but it happened four or five times , everybody realized how non-productive this was , that the time that was lost and there was nothing happening in this area so it was decided by the R T B that we , the , the people off the shop floor would n't stop work until the attack was really imminent or it had started because if this , this was happening all over the Midlands area and of course if you , if you multiply that by the number of people at work you can imagine how much production was lost erm and also when the sirens went Major at the factory used to get the chappies out from off the shop floor , get the few rifles we 'd got , take we in to King George 's playing fields there was a , a brook running across King George 's playing fields then , it had n't and a trench which was extended to stop er aircraft from landing in King George 's cos it was just a big open space . |
| 16 | We did kitchen when we bought some carpet cleaner did n't we ? |
| 17 | When they returned some time during the morning , despite her lack of sleep , Sarella had never felt more wide awake . |
| 18 | Apprentices were trained to make drawings rapidly , so that when they saw some machinery with which they were unacquainted they could sketch its salient features ; this would correspond to the field sketch of the naturalist . |
| 19 | I think , I think I would , having moved the recommendation would seek to clarify what we 're asking the Government to reconsider , erm , because we 're not saying what they should come up with as a new policy , but I think we could add the words , for capital investment , at the end of the motion , recognising that at one level of government , central government it has been the practice in the past , er when they had some capital they could sell in the form of British Telecom shares and er , indeed other nationalised industries , er not to use the er the results erm , er release this realised by that capital disposal for capital investment , instead to use it for revenue purposes , which was in the long term somewhat unfortunate . |
| 20 | Kenneth Clark was enthusiastic when he saw some hanging in Epstein 's home . |
| 21 | when he got some money |
| 22 | Something was wrong she knew though she could not have said what it was and she was not in the least surprised when he made some excuse about being a bit busy next week and unable to see her . |
| 23 | When he brushed some hair away from her face he might just as well have placed his hand on her most intimate spot . |
| 24 | Now it seemed to me that one thousand six hundred was initially as a result of survey work or shall we say investigation into the housing waiting list carried out by the York housing department , and I have to say that I have a certain respect for the York housing department , and they have a certain reasonable and good reputation within the region as a housing department , and so there seems to me that there is a gr a there is a potential to underestimate er the the affordable requirement that 's been put to you , another point erm I 'd just like perhaps to seek a little clarification from Mr Curtis , was was unfortunately I was looking something else up or my attention was diverted when he gave some figures for Ryedale and Selby , I think he said , and I 'll happily stand corrected on this , that if you take away the York requirement figure from his ten thousand four hundred for Greater York , then the remainder he would apportion to Selby and Ryedale , so that Selby got four thousand two hundred , sorry , so that Ryedale got four thousand two hundred and Selby got one thousand seven hundred , erm that does n't add up to ten thousand four hundred and I I I in total , and I I wondered where the rest was coming from , if I the point correctly . |
| 25 | The monster discovered who his creator was and where he lived when he found some papers as a result he travelled to Geneva . |