Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's when I had to put these things onto dea er put death certificates into th their the doctor 's certificate into English , erm they were pretty good , t others were n't so g , er you know , were n't so good . |
| 2 | Three years ago , when I started to make some real money as opposed to all that other stuff I 'd been making , my father hit bad trouble on the tables and the track and he … |
| 3 | and when you try t in the past when I tried to find some way of imposing discipline , there is no way because quite rightly , you 're not allowed to strike children , I never wanted to and I I hardly ever did at one school where there was a marvellous spirit of give and take I used to whip off my little black velvet slipper occasionally and whack some of the larger boys about the top of the thigh . |
| 4 | Failure in 44 and 45 when I wanted to rally all Frenchmen together … |
| 5 | Despite her efforts to be helpful and well-behaved , Mildred had an uncanny knack of appearing to be the cause of any trouble which was occurring , and it must be admitted that there were occasions ( particularly when her rather wild imagination ran away with her ) when she managed to turn some peaceful event into a scene of total chaos . |
| 6 | There were plenty more jobs to come back to when you had spent all your money and caught hepatitis . |
| 7 | And do you remember when you had to cut all your borders out ? |
| 8 | Erm , another day , when you tried to set some , and we were all dying , and we kept carry on going , but we could have said somebody would on to each other , or whatever |
| 9 | Now during the war when we had to have all the windows sealed and blacked out that place became very warm and very uncomfortable to work in . |
| 10 | It did n't seem to me the way to behave towards someone with whom you had shared a good many midnight hours , swopping confidences and generally letting your hair down , not to mention the many other evenings when we had had such fun with Henry and Jimmy , and I felt rather aggrieved at being treated this way . |
| 11 | ‘ In 1975 , when we started doing this , all my competition were saying it could n't be done . |
| 12 | ‘ In 1975 , when we started doing this , all my competition were saying it could n't be done . |
| 13 | that 's right , erm she had said at the time when they had raised all this money that er mostly gon na be spent on erm |
| 14 | I wondered when they had known each other and why the parents had never mentioned the affair to me ? |
| 15 | She had not seen him arrive at her home , since she had not known who he was when they had encountered each other in the garden — but she had seen him leave . |
| 16 | Your dear brother left quite a few problems behind when he failed to take that corner . |
| 17 | It was characteristic that a small , relatively unimportant detail of that kind — from his point of view , not mine — should have occupied his time when he had assumed this enormous burden . |
| 18 | I 've never seen him go so mad , far worse than the usual Saturday night when he had lost all his money gambling and came home so drunk that we all had to hide under the bed . |
| 19 | Desire kindled in Riven like a coal , and he remembered times when he had held that body 's twin in his arms and searched out all its secrets . |
| 20 | ‘ Why do you ask so many questions , you irritating little brat ? ’ cried Mr Fractor one day when he had had enough . |
| 21 | Even finding food was difficult , as Filon , the Empress 's secretary , discovered when he went to find some soup for her in an attempt to make her eat after nearly 36 hours with virtually nothing : |