Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb past] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I knew for sure where you were I came to England alone . |
| 2 | It is rather like something that I used to do as a young groundsman coming up through the ranks , when I applied for vacant jobs all over the place , the bigger and more prestigious the place the better , and more often than not without the slightest intention of taking the job if it had been offered ! |
| 3 | I mean she said to me when I went for this Men Mencap job she said erm , have you got any trade behind you ? |
| 4 | My searches even led me to the absurdity of being directed to the deep freeze in one newsagent when I asked for Spare Rib . |
| 5 | I knew you 'd thought of something , and when you asked for extra milk it was n't hard to guess what it was . ’ |
| 6 | The grandmother of two of the children sobbed when she knew for certain they would not be coming home . |
| 7 | She was a little overweight , her hands a touch too pudgy when she reached for various books and took them from the shelves . |
| 8 | And this was expressed in a very imaginative presentation by Professor a young in her keynote lecture when she called for three significant changes . |
| 9 | When we went for that there |
| 10 | The only way forward for Scottish women 's football is to become affiliated to the S F A and I can remember back as far , as far back as nineteen seventy one when we pushed for that and agreed to recognise us . |
| 11 | More and more they were now given the title of " extraordinary " , even when they remained for long periods at the courts to which they were sent : increasingly the term , applied to either an ambassador or an envoy , became a mere title of honour . |
| 12 | When they allowed for four different levels of transactions costs , they concluded that many potential opportunities for profitable arbitrage remained . |
| 13 | Almost 20 people aged 16–25 attended the Young Persons ' Health Clinic at Park Place Health Centre when it opened for two hours on February 7 . |
| 14 | On Oct. 5 the Baltic Council met in Vilnius , when it called for all Soviet troops stationed in Tallinn , Riga and Vilnius to leave by Dec. 1 , 1991 . |
| 15 | When he knew for certain that a particular shooting or explosion was due to the very cell that he controlled , he consoled himself that it was the will of Allah . |
| 16 | But when he opted for either of John Hay 's horses , they argued : Johnson had to settle for the grey owned by Laughland Vass . |
| 17 | I was ashamed that I 'd written a reference for him when he applied for that job . |
| 18 | When he applied for judicial review he did not know whether his tariff exceeded 20 years , but on 10 April 1990 his solicitors were informed by the Home Office that it did not . |
| 19 | In 1920 Birkenhead put forward both lines of argument when he argued for greater coalition cooperation in the press . |
| 20 | He was drilling the car through a bend at 90mph when he went for third gear — and hit first at 7,000 revs . |
| 21 | Christopher Horn , 45 , of Hurworth Moor , near Darlington , sparked a police search when he vanished for several days in August . |
| 22 | Halfway round the ring when he asked for little more collection she offered no resistance and they moved as one into an easy working trot rising . |
| 23 | The Wisconsin state authorities feel that they have lost enough money on Steve Chen 's dreams — his failed Supercomputer Systems Inc received $75m in incentives from to establish its operations in Eau Claire , and they showed Chen the door when he asked for another $5m to get his fledgling SuperComputers International Inc off the ground in Eau Claire . |
| 24 | Bates trailed 3–0 in the final set against Black , his doubles partner this week , and went to the front for the first time in the match when he broke for 6–5 and then served out for victory . |