Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb past] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another amusing incident to come out of ‘ Space Oddity ’ was when I got a phone call from David one day , who said he had to record an Italian version of the song because two kids in Italy had apparently done a cover version of it and as it looked as if it was going to do quite well , the Italian record company wanted a version by the original artist and said they would send someone along to teach Bowie phonetically how to sing the song . |
| 2 | I had n't been back longer than ten minutes when I got a sledgehammer through my street door . |
| 3 | I was just packing up my medical papers when I got a call to Ward 16 , now also a reception ward . |
| 4 | ‘ The first I learned of either the debt or the judgement was when I got a letter about it this week . |
| 5 | We talked about that for a while and that was when I got the idea of using the mud wagon-not just for him but for the McLaren girl too , and just like before I could see myself sitting in it with her . |
| 6 | That was when I got the gun out . |
| 7 | The ride from Pimlico to Portobello took well over ninety minutes and it was gone midnight when I beached the car on a double yellow line outside my sock . |
| 8 | There are times when you can feel successful when you 've done virtually nothing — I remember when I became a radio actor , and I was pushing my motor bike , which had run out of petrol , up the main street in Cardiff , and I felt that I was a great star , and was very pleased with myself . |
| 9 | It started on a Friday night in November when I felt a bit odd , so I took a paracetamol and went to bed with a hot-water bottle . |
| 10 | I had gone perhaps fifty yards when I felt a bullet sing past my ear and heard the crack of a rifle-shot behind me . |
| 11 | I was about half-way across when I felt the rear begin to swing sideways under the weight of the torrent . |
| 12 | I had fished for half an hour when I felt the line tighten . |
| 13 | On another day when I asked the question , she began slowly and with difficulty to lift the skirts of her dress , revealing bare knees . |
| 14 | Did you see their faces when I asked the question ? ’ |
| 15 | I was recently down at my local stationers looking for the projector pens when I spotted a pack of ‘ Berol Washable Juniors ’ . |
| 16 | Sometimes , when I made a move towards the cottage door , as if to leave on some errand , he called me back . |
| 17 | It was just after eleven when I made the conifer where I 'd split from Werewolf . |
| 18 | The bastard knew when I took a drink . |
| 19 | ‘ I told you last night when I brought the evenings over how it would be . |
| 20 | ‘ That 's when I brought the kids in — I 've never been afraid to do it before and I wo n't hesitate to do it again if it is best for the club . |
| 21 | ‘ The idea came to me during September 1991 when I saw a pile of waste paper being loaded into a contractor 's vehicle at the back of 36 St Andrew Square . |
| 22 | It was only when I saw a magazine produced by his students ' class that I relaxed . |
| 23 | I was about to take off my load and leave the heap of pine-needles for someone else to find in the morning when I saw a figure approaching in the distance . |
| 24 | Still , sometimes when I saw a camera lifted to a scene I would like to have shared back home , I felt a twinge of loss and was suddenly conscious of my idle hands , like someone who has recently given up smoking . |
| 25 | Then I 'ad to get a job ; that 's when I saw a notice in a shop window about a Brixton fam'ly wantin' a maid , so I went after it . |
| 26 | It was a great thing the other day when I saw the combine harvester coming up the glen . |
| 27 | I think it was when I saw the London policeman wagging a finger at a scowling urchin that I thought of Wesley Binks and the time he put the firework through the surgery letter box . |
| 28 | I was only three-and-a-half when I saw the Zeppelin , although I can not claim that it kindled any positive interest in flying . |
| 29 | I went into the hall and that 's when I saw the rope . ’ |
| 30 | I also experienced it ( it came upon me ) when I signed the marriage register as well as when I saw the pig slaughtered . |