Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb past] [art] " in BNC.

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1 This was the rime when everyone had a siesta and for a few hours the village was virtually dead .
2 When I ran the Alliance of Small Firms , we had regular visitors every year sponsored by the Government of Korea , who wined and dined small business men and tried to persuade them to take their work to Korea to be done .
3 ‘ But I 'll never forget his face when I collected a winners ’ medal after West Ham beat Arsenal in the 1980 Cup final ! ’
4 I was congratulating myself on my fitness when I passed a middle-aged German couple climbing up — with a good deal more spring in their steps than me .
5 ‘ I used to have to get out of bed to cry every night and was in an awful way when I passed the Droppin' Well .
6 When I parked the car at Woodside , I noticed the lights were on in the apartment next to mine .
7 ‘ And was n't even trying to when I posted the Normans behind him .
8 I thought that I had finished third , but when I studied the television slow-motion replay on the stadium scoreboard I could see that in fact Ray had won the bronze medal .
9 There was a phase in between school and college when I was a vegetarian , when I shared a house with friends who were macrobiotic .
10 I remind the Hon. Gentleman that when I launched the valleys initiative I challenged the Labour party to choose it as a subject for the Select Committee on Welsh Affairs .
11 ‘ I was 17 years old when I committed the offence for which I was sentenced to die , and I did n't even start thinking and caring about my life until I was at least 20 . ’
12 When I injured the ligaments in my left knee last year , the doctor said I did n't need an operation but it would never be 100% again .
13 ‘ In some ways , ’ he said yesterday , ‘ Python does look very old-fashioned now , yet when I arranged a compilation of all 45 shows for the BBC I found that we had on the Not The Nine O ’ Clock News unintentionally pinched a number of things , putting the signature in the middle of the programme , parodying famous TV interviews .
14 ‘ It had always been her ambition to go to the Holy Land and so when I arranged the trip I told her ‘ Right , now you 're going ’ .
15 Now , I can hold my liquor as well as the next man , so it is ludicrous to suggest that when I reversed the club van into the tea hut I was under the influence .
16 And you must understand : to appreciate the pessimism I feel today you would need to have been present when I formed the optimism. ,
17 When I struck the bream tore off downstream and dragged me into some weeds but I eventually got it to the bankside , ’ said Matthew .
18 When I realised the ring had probably gone back to England that was one of the first things I checked . ’
19 ‘ I did n't leave no mud when I cleaned the floor yesterday , ’ said Mary .
20 Only when I ordered the boatman to take us to Syon did my master break free of his reverie .
21 I did not find any improvement in actual dollars spent on maintenance when I compared an object-oriented system written in 350,000 lines of C++ with a comparably complex product written in 1.25 million lines of C code .
22 When I consulted a textbook it seemed that these were nuchal organs , important in food detection .
23 When I consulted the Lancashire Association of Parish & Town Councils they had never heard of such a charge being made .
24 The accused , who pleaded guilty , said , ‘ I felt the devil and his horns on my head when I plunged the knife through his heart . ’
25 I remember thinking that the soldier had a face now , and though his head remained slobbering in her breast when I plunged the blade through the thick khaki , I saw the sudden sharp pain jolt through his eyes .
26 The woman wore a dress that seemed very short when I recalled the picture through the next few years : broad shoulders , a straight skirt that hung the way it did — I know now — because it had some rayon in it .
27 ‘ You know , that was the best time of my life , when I drove the Truck , ’ said Angalo dreamily .
28 ‘ What a shock for you when I accepted the position , ’ Maria snapped .
29 He said er we had a big hoo hah he said er I borrowed some money off him he said some time ago to do something with and I had n't got the money he said and when I sold the plot of land he said I paid him back what I owed him cos borrow the money .
30 This possibility was confirmed some months later when I received a letter from the mother of one of the men in Leslie 's ‘ stick , ( as a unit of paratroops dropped together from one aircraft was called ) .
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