Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was too easy to gain access to a Company 's computer records when everyone used the same communications web . |
| 2 | ‘ No , I gave you back some tearducts when I inserted the new model . |
| 3 | This theme will be taken up in Chapter 6 when I introduce the structuralist account of the relation between signification and social process . |
| 4 | I kept my birthday a secret , except that some students wanted me to sign some books , and as I signed them I put the date and I happened to say that ‘ I am signing this on my 44th birthday ’ , and after that the news spread mysteriously and my whole class greeted me with ‘ Happy Birthday to you ’ in English , and today , when I saw the other class , they sang ‘ Happy Birthday to you ’ in Portuguese . |
| 5 | Then I present each of their problems when I chair the full care staff meeting . |
| 6 | Another bonus arrived within a week , when I had the first glimpse from the sea of the opposite coastline of Koraloona , with its empty sandy beaches and the great dormant volcano of High Island rearing up behind it , while in the distance I could even make out Hodges , the copra island . |
| 7 | I think that 's when I had the first nightmare … |
| 8 | That continued with some effort for the next twenty-five years , when I had the good fortune to be introduced to Lady Collins , who had inspired a succession of what was eventually called Fount Books , some reprints of more expensive books , some specially written for her series , both varieties being published in paperback , at the lowest possible price . |
| 9 | In 1987 when I attended the Intermediate Command Course at the Police Staff College with some thirty-five other superintendents from around Britain , I found that my Ph.D . |
| 10 | In theory , her looks depended on the services of many employees , my hairdresser , my last hairdresser , my doctor , my other doctor who I went to when I found the first one was n't doing me any good , but with or without their attentions , Laura would always be beautiful . |
| 11 | That was when I visited the Soviet Union in 1984 . |
| 12 | ‘ He liked the song so much he wanted to have a long version of it , ’ claimed Moroder , ‘ and that 's when I did the 17-minute one . |
| 13 | ‘ Forty marked the moment when I turned the magnifying side of my make-up mirror to the wall ’ |
| 14 | It was only when I entered the Arab quarter , a network of dusty roads and wastelands of rubble interspersed with a few small houses just south of the city , that a Palestinian remembered the name . |
| 15 | But Jodi , a Rhodes scholar , will get her chance later this month , when she becomes the first woman to turn out for the men in the annual varsity match against Cambridge . |
| 16 | She claimed to have been ‘ scarce fourteen years ’ when she wrote The Female Advocate , her most important work , which was published in 1686 . |
| 17 | A former teacher , journalist and Euro-MP , Mrs Clwyd has been MP for Cynon Valley , Mid-Glamorgan , since a by-election in 1984 , when she became the first woman to represent a South Wales mining valley . |
| 18 | BRITISH Airways pilot Barbara Harmer flew into the record books yesterday when she became the first woman to operate a Concorde . |
| 19 | Dayflower made history last week at York when she became the first Dubai trained runner to win in England and 31-year-old trainer Indian Satish Seewar will be hoping for a similar landmark in Ireland . |
| 20 | Among the guests , Patricia Pinkerton , who made history earlier this year when she became the first woman to be put in charge of her own parish ; St Briavels in the Forest of Dean . |
| 21 | AN EIGHT-MONTH-OLD girl from Lennoxtown , Stirlingshire , made British medical history yesterday when she became the first person to start gene therapy to combat a potentially fatal deficiency . |
| 22 | FIONA Saunders , 24 , made a small piece of personal finance history when she became the 50,000th saver with Britain 's oldest and largest investment trust . |
| 23 | Stuart made her international breakthrough in 1985 when she took the European junior 200 metres silver medal behind Kerstin Behrendt , who was named earlier this week as one of the athletes involved in a state-run drug-administering programme in what was East Germany . |
| 24 | Monique was 20 when she began the intense three-year association with Matisse , in 1941 . |
| 25 | No more than 14 when she pocketed the Scottish Girls ' title and the Scottish Girls ' Under-22 Stroke-Play Championship for a first time , Jane became the youngest ever to play for Great Britain and Ireland in the Curtis Cup when she was chosen for the 1980 match at St. Pierre . |
| 26 | She had drawn the curtains at the house the previous evening and was carrying out a routine check at about 7.30 am when she saw the smashed back porch . |
| 27 | She looked into the back , which was when she realized the brown holdall had gone . |
| 28 | Wild horses would n't make her ask what had caused it , not when she had the uncomfortable feeling that she would n't enjoy hearing the answer ! |
| 29 | The American was streaking clear in the 100 metres hurdles when she hit the last barrier and crashed to the ground . |
| 30 | I told her on , on a Friday when she gives the first . |