Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I did yours I could n't help looking at the photographs in the leather frame . ’ |
| 2 | Egypt is host to thousands of Sudanese students and workers , and most of them appeared to be assembled outside the gates of the embassy when I found it one morning in a leafy street not far from the Nile . |
| 3 | When she met him one day in the forest , Narcissus said to her : ‘ I suppose you are yet another of these women who find me so very attractive . ’ |
| 4 | The Rectory , when she reached it ten minutes later , was as silent and calm as when she had visited it with the Archdeacon on Saturday evening . |
| 5 | Last years game vs Arse at Elland road when we pasted them 3–0 was great ‘ Leeds humiliate pretenders ’ I 've still got that pinned up on my wall — shame about the rest of the season though . |
| 6 | I was quite embarrassed when we did it two years ago . ’ |
| 7 | Mind you , this fellow jibbed a bit when they offered him two hundred to knock off a bloke who would n't play along with them , but not for long . |
| 8 | Great Britain went 2–1 up in the four-match Test series against the United States when they defeated them 8–3 at Old Dominian , Virginia , on Saturday . |
| 9 | Cromwell had thrown in his lot with the Levellers when it suited him two years before and so was regarded by them as no better than a mutineer himself when he turned against them . |
| 10 | One of my slimmers wrote : ‘ My husband says I now have the figure I had when he married me 30 years ago ’ . |
| 11 | The hospital 's fifteenth-century chapel houses a small collection of works by Hans Memling : exquisite , jewel-like portraits and interpretations of biblical scenes and Christian legends , as vivid as when he painted them 500 years ago . |
| 12 | My chance came some weeks later , when he visited me one November evening in my little cottage . |