Example sentences of "one [noun] when [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A little old lady was sitting by her front doorstep stroking her cat one afternoon when the cat stood up and strolled across the road towards the park . |
| 2 | They had lost significance for her yet still had the power to bring her to the verge of tears , reminding her of what they had once meant : of one Easter when the scent had been a gift , of autumn afternoons when she had taken her baby in a pushchair from one to another of the now disappeared junk shops , buying Victorian china , pieces of old lace and old books , looking forward to the future . |
| 3 | It must have been about 9.30 one evening when the cell hatch opened and they said , ‘ Mills , you 've got bail . |
| 4 | ‘ I had just left the managing director at a site meeting in Middlesex at around 6.30 one evening when the carphone rang . |
| 5 | He had only been in the cellar for about one minute when the ghost appeared and he had had no time to doze . |
| 6 | News of this reached Gawthorpe and a watch was set up , but one night when the vigil had become somewhat relaxed the Chickenley men managed to saw part way through before being disturbed . |
| 7 | Back in the early 60's , David and a group called The Lower Third would travel to gigs in an old ambulance , and Dana Gillespie recalls the story she heard of them ‘ scoring ’ one night when the van was parked in Piccadilly Circus . |
| 8 | I read it late one night when the wind was screaming round the house , blowing snow against all the windows , and sometimes I was afraid . |
| 9 | T. D. I was on duty on Lambeth Road junction one day when a feller came up to me and said , ‘ There 's a body floating in the canal . ’ |
| 10 | One agent in North 's employ remembered being over at CIA headquarters one day when a call came in to him from North , ‘ and everybody in the room gave me a dirty look . ’ |
| 11 | One day when the King was passing down the Thames in his barge , Cranmer , hearing the royal music , came out on Lambeth Bridge to greet him . |
| 12 | They both jumped one day when the phone rang and I leaned towards it , saying , ‘ That 'll be for me . ’ |
| 13 | Nick saw them one day when the door was left open , sitting with their elbows on the table and chewing their chops in their fingers . |
| 14 | One day when the driver arrived at ten minutes past ten an angry customer berated him : ‘ You 're late , you should have been here ten minutes ago ! ’ |
| 15 | But one day when the lord was off hunting the fox said : " Friends , we are all happy and contented , but our master sometimes seems rather sad and downcast . |
| 16 | A recent offender makes its intentions of arousing morbid curiosity perfectly clear on its front cover , proclaiming ‘ 30,000 people burned , boiled and suffocated to death ’ , ‘ A whole thriving city levelled to the ground in seconds ’ , and ‘ The world best-selling account of one day when the earth exploded ’ . |
| 17 | The minimum length of notice an employer must give an employee under Section 49 of the Employment Protection Act 1978 is one week when the employee has been employed between one month and two years . |
| 18 | So very early one morning when the wind was a moderate westerly and made northward progress easy , Creggan set off over the great industrial cities to find the high ground beyond them that he sensed would be there . |
| 19 | Lizzie was waiting for him one morning when the waitress came over to the table . |
| 20 | Usher relied on bore holes and tanks although even those proved inadequate one year when the school had to be closed for three months because of the shortage of water . |
| 21 | She remembered one time when a nurse had beckoned Dot into a side room , pulled over a metal chair for Dot , and brought the bundle to her wrapped in a bulky scratchy blanket . |
| 22 | She told of the one time when the weeping stopped . |