Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] when i [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It got broken when I dropped everything last night . |
| 2 | Oliver seemed upset when I told him . |
| 3 | He seemed relieved when I told him I was reading anthropology and , looking somewhat apprehensively over his shoulder at the sociology building , he muttered ‘ well thank goodness you 're not taking bloody sociology , with all those left wing bastards who hate the polis ’ . |
| 4 | She seemed thrilled when I told her . |
| 5 | A youth tried to sell me a Socialist Worker and seemed confused when I told him that in my experience the words were diametrically opposed . |
| 6 | He seemed pleased when I told him how much I appreciated such poems as ‘ Cool Tombs ’ , ‘ The Hangman ’ , ‘ Kalamazoo ’ , ‘ Chicago — Hog Butcher ’ , and his later volume ‘ Good Morning , America ’ . |
| 7 | The ash tray was getting crowded when I decided there was no percentage in doing any more worrying for a while . |
| 8 | The hair I had watched from above had become disturbed when I lifted her , so that it shaded the line of her left cheek . |
| 9 | I became concerned when I saw my husband becoming a different person . |
| 10 | All it wanted was a new cover , I said , and she almost looked convinced when I said I was sure we could reach a price that suited us both . |
| 11 | They were referred to the clinic by their doctors in Greece or the Middle East , and looked horrified when I said there was no lift and they had to walk down seventeen stairs to the basement . |
| 12 | ‘ I felt terrible when I realised what had happened . |
| 13 | He appeared satisfied when I told him that I did n't have a criminal record and shouted for somebody to come and show me upstairs . |
| 14 | ‘ Eleven years later it was like a dream come true when I played my first game for the club and he was still in goal . |