Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] in [noun] when [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was n't exactly what I had in mind when I asked the council if I could donate some money for a seat in the park ’ |
| 2 | So our having the tape-recorder is affecting the quality of Mrs Padmore 's life — which , however , has an indirect effect on the quality of our life , given the I think not unreasonable premise that an improvement in the quality of someone else 's life offers us some kind of pleasure or satisfaction , or at any rate spares us discomfort or guilt ; though whether this is what I had in mind when I borrowed the tape-recorder this morning I think unlikely . |
| 3 | He wore a black uniform with a black cap and had a very black face due to the coal dust which rose in clouds when he shovelled coal into the engine . |
| 4 | She got in trouble when I got home . |
| 5 | In the past two years it has grown by more than 35 per cent , and anyone who put in £3,000 when it was launched , in April 1988 , will have seen their investment swell to £4,267 . |
| 6 | If you were wise at the time , you will have had a second report bound up and filed , containing every fact used , every reference studied , all the results of tests , every reason you had in mind when you drew your conclusions — and you alone will have access to these private notes . |
| 7 | ‘ Is that what you had in mind when you talked about my helping you ? |
| 8 | Like lying on one 's back as we did in Spain when we slept out looking up between the fig-branches into the star-corridors , the great seas and oceans of stars . |
| 9 | Go any day to the Blue Lagoon , a curious place of billowing steam clouds and science-fiction B-movie film-set machinery , and the place will be filled with Americans , all of them covered in sulphur when they emerge . |
| 10 | They lived in Road when I was born . |
| 11 | Erm that in fact er whether it 's been on board accurately by the report er or not is , is a matter for er question , but it was something that they bore in mind when they where reaching their conclusion , so they believe that they have taken it into account . |
| 12 | AN AMERICAN accused of killing a Japanese exchange student who knocked on the wrong door while looking for a Halloween party said he acted in self-defence when his trial opened yesterday . |
| 13 | But he recoiled in disgust when she came near him . |
| 14 | On 27 October 1846 he died in Preston when he burst a blood vessel during a fit of coughing , and was buried in St Peter 's churchyard , Preston . |
| 15 | He could feel a slight erection coming on — the sort he had in bars when he met good-time girls . |
| 16 | In answer to the hon. Gentleman 's point about travel — which is what I think that he had in mind when he referred to ’ communication ’ — by hon. Members to European Community institutions , I hope to table the necessary resolutions very soon . |