Example sentences of "when [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was never so upset in me life as when me own daughter called me a sinner . ’ |
| 2 | When I one time when I was wounded in France I was on the Somme you know . |
| 3 | ‘ When I first split from my husband the prince said he was terribly sorry , but I did n't reciprocate , ’ she said . |
| 4 | When I first thought about fancying men , it was about kissing and cuddling . |
| 5 | I do not want to be harsh , but when I first set eyes on him I knew the type at once : the big , gangling provincial , so eager and relieved to find himself at last in artistic circles . |
| 6 | Well it , it , at least it 's gold , I mean , I , I , I was in the jewellery trade when I first left school , between school and national service I worked at a manufacturing jewellers in Birmingham and I 've never really gone along with the idea that nine carat is actually gold . |
| 7 | When I fourteen months ago . |
| 8 | There was even a time , John said later , when his one ambition was to devote himself to horses , but his father was not especially enthusiastic about that idea . |
| 9 | Suppose an industrial salesperson working for an adhesives manufacturer is faced with the following objection : ‘ Why should I buy your new adhesive gun when my present method of applying adhesive — direct from the tube — is perfectly satisfactory ? ’ |
| 10 | I have almost no social life , free only when my disabled mother can manage my child for a few hours . |
| 11 | When my injured back threatened to give up the ghost completely after 17 steady miles , I could n't have bought more encouragement and warmth from the people of Harlem and the Bronx who spotted the slogan on my T-shirt and never stopped yelling ‘ All the way , Linda , looking good Liverpool maternity hospitals , you can do it , go … ‘ |
| 12 | When my young cousin 's pet budgie died , her parents buried it in the garden while she was asleep to avoid her being upset . |
| 13 | Some 36 years later I was invited to become Patron of Vliegclub Grimbergen , which honour I took very seriously and when my Belgian friends told me of the threatened closure of this , one of the busiest of Belgium 's general aviation airfields , I could see no obvious reason for closure , other than what only seemed to me to be political bias . |
| 14 | Because I found historical films about men on horseback so moving I was pleased when my then wife , Jenni , set to writing a book about the wild west . |
| 15 | As weird Norman Bates was climbing the stairs in that awful , old dark house , the tension was so frightening that I almost screamed aloud , when my then boyfriend grabbed me by the arm and said : ‘ Let's watch horror films together for the rest of our lives ! ’ |
| 16 | When my two children are very naughty I also smack them , and I use a slipper because it 's the softest thing that comes to hand . |
| 17 | I first started to think about painting about ten years ago when my two children married and left home and I thought I 'd ‘ do ’ something at the local adult education centre . |
| 18 | I had n't long been back from my honeymoon when my new wife was given another fright . |
| 19 | When my elder son was born and I was having difficulty in breast-feeding him , my mother sympathised with me and told me that , just after I was born , she had had an abscess on one of her breasts and found feeding me something of an ordeal . |
| 20 | He said I pays my poll tax he says and I am paying out of my savings he said now what the heck will I do when my bloody savings is gone . |
| 21 | Things got off to a bad start anyway when my Reliant Robin was crushed by Pahdra Singh 's Bentley as we jostled for a parking place . |
| 22 | I have concluded that either a ) the database was saved only to a floppy disk and taken away by your student , or b ) it was a WORKS database and was irretrievably lost when my hard disk crashed last year . |
| 23 | I have got two children and I 'm hoping to go to college when my youngest daughter is three cos I ca n't get her , ca n't go until she is three cos the creche wo n't take them until they 're out of nappies and three year old . |
| 24 | I first became involved when my youngest child started attending the playgroup and I was asked to work there a few mornings a week . |
| 25 | When my youngest brother was born and I was between eight and nine years old , my troubles began in earnest . |
| 26 | When my youngest brother was born , all the birds went away . |
| 27 | ‘ When my youngest son was born , we clocked him in to the second . |
| 28 | When my athletic marble form |
| 29 | When my oldest son Blair said farewell sadly to the Outer Hebrides and came to work in Aberdeenshire , my wife Ann and I arranged to spend a few days there , fishing and exploring a country that neither of us knew . |
| 30 | When my rheumatoid arthritis was very bad it has been very bad and very chronic , and it still can be some days , erm I had more ways of getting up and down those stairs and I got up and down , but I had to invent ways to do it . |