Example sentences of "when [pron] leave the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This ceased in 1986 , when I left the Midlands to return to the family home to help my sister in caring for our father , who died in 1988 at the age of 99 . |
| 2 | I was sixty one you see when I left the shop . |
| 3 | I worked for Department One from 1943 until 1957 when I left the company . |
| 4 | There are many times when I leave the house and go up to the range when I really do n't want to . |
| 5 | I have to make decisions every second about when I leave the rhythm guitar part to play the melody and how I balance between switching the pickup selection , reach over , mute the strings and play . |
| 6 | I leave it behind when I leave the stage . |
| 7 | The first sign that Harriet had not lost her wild instincts came in her third year , when she left the house and started to go off hunting at night . |
| 8 | If war had not broken out , they would have married , but when the Kleibers were sent away to prison-camp , her last hope of love and security collapsed ; that was when she left the Island and went up West . |
| 9 | She would do her job — and do it well right until the very day when she left the company . |
| 10 | I think they followed you here from when you left the airport . |
| 11 | ‘ You looked like death when you left the club . |
| 12 | It was only when we left the tavern that we heard about the King . ’ |
| 13 | The embarrassing thing is that we 're all very right people so the place is a mess , er , and it takes us a quarter of a day before we realise that we 've been burgled , because things are actually slightly neater than when we left the previous day . |
| 14 | It was mid-morning when they left the city and the heat was already building up again . |
| 15 | The St Kildans had to leave most of their sheep behind when they left the island , and these now run wild . |
| 16 | The highlight for Charlie , however , came in the eleventh week , when they left the barracks to travel to Glasgow where Tommy won the top prize for rifle shooting , beating all the officers and men from seven other regiments . |
| 17 | GEOFFREY BOYCOTT 'S credibility as a member of Yorkshire 's general committee was dented further yesterday when he left the emergency meeting an hour before the end , writes Derek Hodgson . |
| 18 | By the summer of 1967 , when he left the Department of Education and Science for the Board of Trade , £16m. had been made available for a building programme over the next two years , with a further £18m. to follow in 1971/2 . |
| 19 | It seemed that Maidstone , who had been completely sober at ten o'clock when he left the bar , returned at about midday , still sober , but immediately started drinking heavily . |
| 20 | Later that day , when he left the gardens to walk by the river , alone , a small figure appeared from the bushes beside the path . |
| 21 | And when Elvis sang That 's All Right Mama he was 20 , as was Eric Clapton when he left The Yardbirds to join an aged John Mayall ( reputed to be in his … gasp … thirties even then ) to make that seminal Bluesbreakers LP . |
| 22 | For example , he may be told that his alibi relates to a period between 2 and 5 p.m. last Thursday , when he left the refectory after lunch and took a train to a named neighbouring town and visited a friend in time for tea . |
| 23 | It was twenty past nine when he left the cosy fireside of the Bull . |
| 24 | ‘ Or when he left the table on two occasions , ’ Auguste said firmly , remembering Sir Thomas 's absence after the meal , which had been longer surely than it took merely to change his clothes for those of Bill Sikes . |
| 25 | There had been something predatory about it ; the sort of smile a fox might give the remaining chickens when he left the hen-house . |
| 26 | Alfred Anderson lost touch with the two men when he left the island in 1959 . |
| 27 | It 's useful for them to know what dads does when he leaves the house to go to work . |
| 28 | The car transporter was travelling down the slip road of the A418 to join the A40 when it left the sliproad . |