Example sentences of "[conj] when i [verb] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And oh , we loved the intimacy of having them so close , close enough that when I rode my bicycle for ‘ Committee ’ through the ‘ vomitarium ’ separating one wedge of audience from the next I was able to steady myself by grasping the leg of a gentleman who had stretched it over the side . |
| 2 | Then when we went on the train to Italy and all the way through France and Switzerland he chatted up one of the Marias , and when I tipped his minestrone soup over his head on Milan station he said : ‘ You 'll have to excuse my wife , she 's just an ignorant peasant . ’ |
| 3 | I 've hardly got any in cos when I left my nursery I got them all to do me one and when I left my school I got a load of them to do me one I did n't get many at the day nursery , but I got a handful . |
| 4 | And when I asked his orchestra 's publicist if Daniel Barenboim would really want to be interviewed immediately after such a lengthy spell of high-altitude incarceration , she said : ‘ He came in by Concorde , he 's just been on a two-week skiing trip with his family in Switzerland — believe me , he 'll be just fine . ’ |
| 5 | The lamp-smudges seemed to swim towards me , dipping and swaying off-centre as I approached them My legs were trembling and when I put my hand against my face it was burning , and yet clammy . |
| 6 | I once played James ‘ Rocky ’ Mountain of the FBI in a ‘ Children 's Hour ’ programme , and when I saw my name in the Radio Times I just stared at it for ages . |
| 7 | The oil lamp beside his bed had been extinguished , and when I saw my father glance disapprovingly at the lamp I had brought to guide me up the rickety staircase , I quickly lowered the wick . |
| 8 | The price of a full season ticket was going to be as much as a term 's school fees , and when I saw my father 's horrified face , I said , ‘ I can cycle . ’ |
| 9 | On being introduced , and when I repeated my name , he mused , " Mahaddie … |
| 10 | And when I turned my head to take a parting glance at the tug which had just left us anchored outside the bar , I saw the straight line of the flat shore joined to the stable sea , edge to edge , with a perfect and unmarked closeness , in one levelled floor half brown , half blue under the enormous dome of the sky ( 3 ) . |
| 11 | Somebody 'd poked him along here with a punt-pole ; and when I arrived his body — his naked , semi-waterlogged body — was nudging against the side of the bank — just here — just in front of the changing cubicles , face down , his head washed clean of blood — much blood , methinks , Morse ! — his hair rising and falling — ’ |
| 12 | We wanted to marry but circumstances did n't permit , and when I lost my job I decided to leave . |
| 13 | He played a song at the end of the interview , and all he said to the band was : ‘ When I kick , that means I 'm going to start , and when I kick my leg again , that means I 'm going to stop . ’ |
| 14 | This was all happening while I was walking through the bus station and taking my place in the queue ; and when I gained my seat I began looking in my bag for a piece of paper and a biro , and then , on the inside of a chocolate-bar wrapping I wrote what I must memorize and recite if I were to get the message over to the doctor — I , who even made heavy weather of describing a sore throat ; I , who after a period in the waiting-room could dry up so as to be virtually dumb . |
| 15 | I 've hardly got any in cos when I left my nursery I got them all to do me one and when I left my school I got a load of them to do me one I did n't get many at the day nursery , but I got a handful . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , they 're all right for here , but when I receive my fortune , I 'll want him to meet important people , and behave correctly . ’ |
| 17 | At the time I had no other reason to come home , but when I heard my mother only had a short time left it was the only place I wanted to be . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ But when I told my father I was ashamed of myself . |
| 19 | Mainly to get me out of the house , probably , but when I told my father I was going to be an actor he immediately thought I 'd turned gay . |
| 20 | She did n't know whether or not he was sniffing but when I searched his room I found empty aerosols . |
| 21 | College was dull , we covered the basics and then did a bit of everything — I hated portraiture , architectural and food shots — all the commercially viable stuff — but when I saw his work it struck a chord . |
| 22 | College was dull , we covered the basics and then did a bit of everything — I hated portraiture , architectural and food shots — all the commercially viable stuff — but when I saw his work it struck a chord . |
| 23 | ‘ But when I lower my hand , ride as fast as you can ! ’ |
| 24 | While I sympathize with the caller from West Calder , I feel we pay poll tax as well to cover all these things but when I bought my house , my solicitor had me in for two hours and went through all my obligations under the title deeds part of was , that I had to pay one three hundredths of keeping the open areas clean and tidy plus grass cutting . |
| 25 | I wanted to ‘ do ’ someone I knew a little , but when I approached my number one seed , he served me up Roy as a better choice ( Roy just happened to be on holiday so not able to comment ) . |
| 26 | At first I had thought she would recover , but when I learned her illness was serious , I decided to visit her at night , for what might be the last time . |
| 27 | But when I recall her attitude over this house I ca n't help wondering if that hardness has always been in her , and I was too dumb to see it . ’ |
| 28 | mm , mm but er in the morning I surprise because when I knock your door and I got up early , I got up at half past six cos |
| 29 | Always before when I ran my head , and my country , and my son 's inheritance into danger , and stood to it in arms , always I had you by my side , heart in heart with me . |
| 30 | That hurt him almost as much as when I slapped his face for not letting me escape . |