Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] when [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LETTERS FROM MY FATHER ed by Amanda Allsop Alan Sutton , £4.99 I USED to encounter Kenneth Allsop frequently in the Sixties when we broadcast together on BBC book programmes . |
| 2 | I knew Mrs Bugler in the Sixties when she came to stay with my cousin Snaebjorn Jonsson , the translator of Hardy 's work and poems into Icelandic , at Portchester , Hants . |
| 3 | But a day had come in the Sixties when he was in one of the elephant houses and was staring up at an elephant as it walked neurotically round and round its tiny area when a sudden memory of some of the places he had been kept in during the war had come to him ; no space , no freedom , no life . |
| 4 | ‘ There 's something terribly … decadent about lazing in the Caribbean when it 's raining in England , ’ she murmured . |
| 5 | Parenthetically , erm he says somewhere in his autobiography that the one thing that consoled him in the nineteen-hundreds when he was so miserable with his wife and his mathematics , was the devising of , was the devising of prose rhythms . |
| 6 | Now that really does put you directly in the front-line when you 're answering the phone , so that call could be for anybody , when you take up a night-line call . |
| 7 | But it was easier to believe in the impossible when you were tucked up in bed and half-asleep , than when you were walking the wet , comfortless streets , and the bloke you loved was on a bus going in the opposite direction , staring hopelessly out of the window , and wondering how on earth he was ever going to marry you , with no savings and going into the Army next week and a widowed mother who imagined herself an invalid and hated you for taking away her son . |
| 8 | D' ya remember in the first when we had curly going everywhere . |
| 9 | But she put it up here , I think probably to make it easier , I mean if anyone 's had , I do n't know if anyone had children in the seventies when it was the fashion to wear very long skirts , or even as I find going up and down stairs in my nightie , you 're more than likely to fall and break a leg and the baby 's neck at the same time , if you wear a long skirt . |
| 10 | I know this is quite usual for fathers in the Eighties , but in the Fifties when we had our older children , and the Sixties when Shanti came , it was not quite so common . |
| 11 | in the fifties when it first started and how |
| 12 | Obviously the proposer and seconder of this motion do not remember what this scheme meant to people in the forties when it was demeaning and degrading and a great intrusion into their private lives and I do feel Mr Mayor that as it was a a it was demeaning and degrading in the forties it will be no less demeaning and degrading in the nineties . |
| 13 | You have to remember that Americans only found this endemic American music in the '60s when they began listening to English groups , who were doing something really important , which was taking black music and making it louder . |
| 14 | The Guildhall — Victorian Gothic at its best ; built by Edward Godwin in the 1860's when he was only 28 . |
| 15 | Bowe said : ‘ I thought he was crazy not to go down in the 10th when I was beating up on him . |
| 16 | From the moment in the mid-Eighties when it became known that Baron Thyssen was hunting a new location for his famous collection of paintings housed until only a few months ago at the lakeside Villa Favorita near Lugano , city fathers and heads of state began to vie for the prestige of exhibiting it . |
| 17 | But production stopped in the Eighties when they became unfashionable . |
| 18 | The huge leap forward had taken place in the eighties when he had used junk bonds to enlarge his empire at a fantastic pace — until suddenly it was realized in the States that Hauser controlled the largest private financial institution in the republic . |
| 19 | On the first day he announced his new sponsorship deal with Everest — a return to the firm who supported him in the 70's when he rode for the Edgar yard . |
| 20 | In the split-second when he had first mentioned marriage , Ashley had harboured the giddy irrational notion that he might next be going to say he loved her . |