Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought of that little girl last week when I nibbled some chocolates at a London theatre . |
| 2 | My position on the whole thing started to wobble last year when I had some reflexology ( a foot massage ) which made me more relaxed than I 've felt for years . |
| 3 | On the other hand , on one of my visits I was at a meeting when I heard some commotion outside and asked what it was . |
| 4 | Oh , she had n't missed Naylor 's eyes on her a time or two when she exchanged some comment with Travis — but surely he did n't expect her to ignore him ! |
| 5 | Juice extractors are a good idea for people living alone because they enable you just to juice one orange at a time , when you fancy some juice , whereas a litre carton may well start fermenting before one person can drink it all . |
| 6 | The lean times seemed very hard , but the thing you think of when you have some success is how on earth did you survive them ? |
| 7 | In the early days , when we had some money to spare , we would contribute to the village festivals and later , when we fell on harder times , and they had become richer and more famous for their art amongst international collectors , they would support us . |
| 8 | The Minister can not duck the fact that , even in the years when he had some money from the Chief Secretary to dispose on our arts and cultural life , he deliberately chose not to unfreeze the purchase grants of the galleries . |
| 9 | Disabled Ron started it all off in 1990 when he planted some window boxes so his friend Robert McIver would have something attractive to look at outside his window . |
| 10 | No doubt she encouraged Mr Macmillan at a time when he needed some encouragement ; and there seemed little danger to the Constitution in this fact being revealed in 1973 to those readers of Sir Harold 's memoirs who had stayed the course through the Winds of Change , the Blast of War , and the Tides of Fortune to the End of the Day . |
| 11 | This was the final stage of a two-year investigation into the actions of five senators , all but one of them Democrats , who had intervened with regulators on Keating 's behalf at a time when he contributed some $1,300,000 to their campaigns and political causes . |