Example sentences of "when [art] [noun sg] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think we had reached about 11,000 feet when the barrage opened up over Valetta and , against the white puffs , I saw seven biplanes heading directly towards us in a shallow vic formation . |
| 2 | God knows when the banquet ended . |
| 3 | My contact with the family had lapsed for a while when the head asked to see me to request help in explaining the Statementing procedures to Mrs Singh . |
| 4 | ‘ That was when the order went out : Be nice to Diana . ’ |
| 5 | A further judgment which affected press practices was made on June 24 when the court ruled 5:4 that news organizations might be sued for breaking promises of confidentiality to their sources . |
| 6 | The question of fraud had earlier been raised in December 1988 , when the Court had complained of double-counting by beef farmers : an EP committee had reported in late January that in three areas of West Germany , 80 per cent of all cattle were apparently being slaughtered more than once ( for earlier cases see pp. 35915 ; 36493 ) . |
| 7 | A similar decision was reached in re B — Court of Appeal , 10 June 1988 when the court found that the mother was not unreasonable in withholding her consent to adoption in order not to be deprived of contact with the child in spite of the fact that the twelve year old wanted to be adopted . |
| 8 | The following day , when the court resumed , Mrs Alice James gave evidence . |
| 9 | At the point , in July 1978 , when the Council agreed in principle to create a Committee for Scotland , the CNAA was validating courses with a total enrolment of approaching 9000 students at thirteen Scottish institutions . |
| 10 | The inclusion of half-a-dozen peers who held no significant office suggests that it was beginning to revert to the form of the 1520s , when the Council had included both office-holders and men whose political support was valuable to the Crown . |
| 11 | In Nottingham a six-year period of ‘ clerical , dominance of the School Board was ended in a recent election when the Council put forward eight ‘ unsectarian ’ candidates and all were elected . |
| 12 | The London SCCs originated in part from the Relief Committees established in 1899 by the School Board , and continued by the LCC until they were renamed in 1907 when the Council put into effect section ( 1a ) of the Education ( Provision of Meals ) Act 1906 , which called for the establishment of Canteen Committees . |
| 13 | At the meeting when the Council approved this document it also received a paper entitled ‘ Academic freedoms which might be granted to colleges ’ , directed towards ‘ relaxing controls ’ . |
| 14 | The council should have stopped these dealings when the district auditor began to question their legality in the summer of 1988 , but the new options were taken out between then and 23 February this year , when the council decided to cease making payments on the transactions . |
| 15 | Clementina Black became editor of its journal , the Women 's Industrial News , in 1895 and later president of the WIC , resigning in 1909 when the Council decided to take no action on wages boards . |
| 16 | But as i told you before , when the council started preparing for Hitler , in when I went on the council work in nineteen thirty six I had to fill the ditches in there . |
| 17 | The future of the ABA was threatened last year when the Council withdrew funding , insisting that the boxing organisation needed to change the way it managed its affairs . |
| 18 | The saga began last year when the council opened a new open-plan primary school to relieve overcrowding in Groby 's two existing primary schools . |
| 19 | Linda Welsh has previously suggested that the key issue is competence , at a time when the knowledge gained in initial vocational education may have a life span as short as four years . |
| 20 | ‘ What do you think you 're doing McAllister ? ’ asked Dr Neil as she walked towards him , just at the moment when the girl began to moan and thrash about , her pains suddenly returning in full force . |
| 21 | Leeson had hoped that his imagination had exaggerated the resemblance , but he saw when the girl walked in that it had n't . |
| 22 | She danced in a haze of misery , scarcely noticing when the music changed from vibrant rock-and-roll to ‘ the creep ’ and when the lights were lowered and he pulled her close she could n't be bothered to protest though she was revolted by the smell of beer on his breath ( where had he got it ? ) mingling with strong body odours . |
| 23 | Hankin was promised an interview at the end of the season when the board made it clear he was not blamed for relegation . |
| 24 | ‘ On a personal note , in 1991 when the Board nominated me and the shareholders elected me to the chairmanship , I indicated that I would serve in this capacity for two years and oversee the rationalisation and turnaround of the Waterford and Wedgwood businesses . |
| 25 | There came a day when the diplomat received orders to return to America . |
| 26 | These dates generally refer to when the customer signed for the transfer of ownership . |
| 27 | Excited to find she could just make out traces of narrow fields with dividing banks and walls , she ventured further towards a rounded mound which could well have been an Iron Age barrow , and just beyond it she found the standing stone , where she shivered pleasurably , her imagination running riot about the monolith 's precise function in the days when the settlement had been a live , thriving community . |
| 28 | Grandfather , the youngest son of Count Nikolai Denknetzeyan , was nineteen when the revolution broke out . |
| 29 | That was when the drink began to matter . |
| 30 | On 3 December , when the Soviet had survived fifty days , the government felt strong enough to arrest the Executive Committee and over 200 deputies and to destroy the organization . |