Example sentences of "when [pers pn] took [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I took on the marine operations every ship had a fiftyfour man crew and it seemed to me that this was inefficient , so I did a trip on a ship and I came back quite convinced you could actually run a ship with twenty-one men . |
| 2 | I was n't much more than your age when I took on the farm myself . |
| 3 | ‘ There were problems in the past with the way the fund was run , but when I took over a couple of years ago we took a very long look at our accounting system and put matters right . |
| 4 | ‘ When I took over the club from Connelly I agreed to give old Giuseppe there a job , ’ he explained . |
| 5 | And when I took over the magazine I said let's just use the typefaces that they use in the newspaper and supplement them for some headlines , but try to make it belong in the New York Times . |
| 6 | When she took out the leather writing case , the child turned and cried , ‘ That 's Mama 's ! |
| 7 | The first was only 18 months ago when we took on the New Zealand Emerging Players XI . |
| 8 | It was dark when we took up a position among thick briars and long grass . |
| 9 | Mr Ellis added : ‘ When we took over the line the state of the locomotives was not as we would have wished so we have embarked on a rebuilding process . ’ |
| 10 | Video producer Rob Small reveals : ‘ When we took down the lighting rig at the end of the shoot soot from the candles left black patches on the ceiling . |
| 11 | The first is that the land around the Arnish site was owned by the Stornoway Trust , an elected body who received an undertaking from the subsidiary of Olsen Shipping when they took over the site , that only essential maintenance would be carried out on Sundays . |
| 12 | Still more to the point , were they welcomed by the Melians when they took over the existing settlement at Phylakopi ? |
| 13 | But when they took over the firm they were always called " Mister " to distinguish them from the other captains , perhaps . |
| 14 | When they took over the , the mind of that man and that woman |
| 15 | How many of us can say that someone changed when they took on a certain job or changed when something happened at work . |
| 16 | Ireland had crashed to a 145-90 defeat at the hands of the English losing out on all six rinks , and looked to have little chance when they took on the Scots , who had beaten defending champions Wales 130-100 in their opener . |
| 17 | Most borrowers did not anticipate this ; indeed , a 1989 survey by the Office of Fair Trading shows that only 37% of borrowers gave any thought at all to the likely future movement of interest rates when they took out a loan . |
| 18 | But I was stunned when they took out the curlers — it looked even worse ! ’ |
| 19 | It was the dying days of the citizen Army , the young men who were reluctantly called up to serve their Queen and country — to learn how to fire a gun , to march in step and to use contraceptives when they took out the girl from the NAAFI on Saturday nights . |
| 20 | In 1966 its role was expanded when it took over the Ministries of Aviation and Fuel and Power . |
| 21 | Dalglish , whose side visit Southampton tomorrowsun , got his priorities right when he took on the former Luton and Wimbledon boss as his right-hand man soon after taking office just over a year ago . |
| 22 | Then Lebensraum became available in Venice in the Sixties , when he took on the first floor of the Palazzo Malpiero Trevisani in Campo Santa Maria Formosa . |
| 23 | I also note that the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) — who said , when he took on the job that there would be ’ no more phoney shadow Cabinet Budgets ’ — has now promised that there will be a phoney shadow Cabinet Budget . |
| 24 | It took Cuckney four years to overcome the financial crisis he encountered when he took over the Crown Agents in 1974 . |
| 25 | It was 1837 that it became Ring & Brymer , an entity retained by Lord Forte when he took over the company in 1962 . |
| 26 | He loved his ‘ Jocks ’ without a trace of condescension , and when he took over the regiment as lieutenant-colonel in North Africa and Italy , his double-barrelled beer name earned him the affectionate sobriquet of ‘ Colonel Screwtop ’ . |
| 27 | I met him for the first time ever when he took over the leadership of the party from the recently deceased Hugh Gaitskell in February 1963 . |
| 28 | Spittals had insisted it should be laid when he took over the office . |
| 29 | Castro later admitted to Herbert Matthews that when he took over the refineries he did not know whether or not Moscow would supply Cuba with oil ( Matthews : 1969 , p. 171 ) . |
| 30 | Caesar found a census of the population in the Greek script when he took over the camp of the Helvetii ( Bell . |