Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [vb past] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I took on the marine operations every ship had a fiftyfour man crew and it seemed to me that this was inefficient , so I did a trip on a ship and I came back quite convinced you could actually run a ship with twenty-one men . |
| 2 | I was n't much more than your age when I took on the farm myself . |
| 3 | Often , when I switched on the light to make sure that the dish was scraped clean , I was disgusted at the mess I had been eating . |
| 4 | When I switched on the radio a sober voice intoned the day 's bad news . |
| 5 | WITH nearly 20 years of trouble-free driving behind me , I was relatively confident and assured when I switched on the ignition for my first lesson in advanced driving . |
| 6 | When she switched on the light the little room exploded into a brightness so extreme that it hurt his eyeballs . |
| 7 | When she switched on the light her cosy mental picture was shattered by crude reality . |
| 8 | As soon as she drew up to the roundabout at the top of Woodstock Road , she found herself in traffic which stretched as far as the eye could see , and when she switched on the car radio , she discovered that the only sound it would make was an assortment of squeaks and crackles . |
| 9 | The first was only 18 months ago when we took on the New Zealand Emerging Players XI . |
| 10 | He recognised himself , but did not recognise me when we switched on The Railway Children some months ago . |
| 11 | Ireland had crashed to a 145-90 defeat at the hands of the English losing out on all six rinks , and looked to have little chance when they took on the Scots , who had beaten defending champions Wales 130-100 in their opener . |
| 12 | Dalglish , whose side visit Southampton tomorrowsun , got his priorities right when he took on the former Luton and Wimbledon boss as his right-hand man soon after taking office just over a year ago . |
| 13 | Then Lebensraum became available in Venice in the Sixties , when he took on the first floor of the Palazzo Malpiero Trevisani in Campo Santa Maria Formosa . |
| 14 | I also note that the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) — who said , when he took on the job that there would be ’ no more phoney shadow Cabinet Budgets ’ — has now promised that there will be a phoney shadow Cabinet Budget . |
| 15 | Hassan Hamdan , aged seven , was shot in the head by a sniper when he switched on the light at his bedroom in Mossaitbeh , a poor residential district controlled by Amal . |
| 16 | She was dressed as a munitions worker , and when he switched on the light her hair had blazed under the dim bulb . |
| 17 | When he switched on the ignition , he saw that the tank was more than three-quarters full . |
| 18 | When he switched on the light and went in , he found everything in order . |