Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb past] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was when I went for a walk to our old camp . |
| 2 | Farrelly met Sinead when she advertised for a band in an Irish music paper . |
| 3 | ‘ And that 's presumably when you went for a smoke on the roof ? ’ |
| 4 | The closest I ever got to you was when we went for a spin on your motor bike , with me like a ravished flapper on the pillion , legitimately clinging to your lissom waist , to those two wonderful hip-bones I loved to hold , as if they were the very hinges of heaven , whose wind blew your hair back into my ecstatic face : |
| 5 | She 'd been with us for a year when we went for a day 's walk in the country . |
| 6 | NINE former staff at the old Williams & Glyn 's Bradford Branch were soon talking about ‘ the good old days ’ when they met for a reunion in one of the city 's wine bars . |
| 7 | Of course it 's not easy to keep up the smiles in public , as the couple showed in Seoul yesterday when they arrived for a five-day Korean visit . |
| 8 | But the employers persuaded them to hold off until 1966 , when they settled for a mere 5 per cent rise over the three years to 1969 . |
| 9 | Well he he 'd got a , and if I 'd got to do it you know , another day , his er perhaps start and er i , well you know when he came for a meal and saw all that ? |
| 10 | Sometimes , when he went for a walk , she followed him ; if he stopped to look at something she stopped too and when he walked fast , she walked fast to keep up with him . |
| 11 | But 10 years ago , Gerald Kingsland hit the headlines when he advertised for a woman to live with him on a desert island . |
| 12 | There came a day when he arrived for a lecture in army uniform and carrying a rifle . |
| 13 | Lech Walesa became the first Polish President to visit Israel when he arrived for a four-day visit on May 20 . |
| 14 | The court was told that Lord Apsley was arrested last November when he arrived for a function at Gloucester Barracks in South Cerney . |
| 15 | He made these astonishing remarks when he called for a meeting with the Toronto Globe and Mail , much to the surprise of everyone . |
| 16 | Lord May cast a different slant on the word early in the new century when he called for a ‘ Hooligan Conference ’ , later to go under the more dignified title of the Twentieth Century League . |