Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] when [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My word , what interest I kindled when I spoke of the hospital at Christmas . |
| 2 | You arranged for that vehicle I requested when I called from Frankfurt Airport ? |
| 3 | I read a lot of books , and I knew the theory of it very well , but I failed when it came to the practice . |
| 4 | Yeah , I remembered it while I was walking round the shop , cos the more I yeah , the more I thought about it the worse I got when I stood by the machine . |
| 5 | Er the impression I got when I talked to the locals who lived here was that it was n't gon na be that mixed . |
| 6 | What I found when I looked at this problem over the course of ten years was that this complexity , like responsibility time span , also occurs in leaps or jumps . |
| 7 | But I found when I looked at my books a week ago , or a fortnight ago , I thought , oh I know this , I know this , but it 's not until you get into it that you think shit ! |
| 8 | ‘ There 's a fantastic-looking man called Rob English whom I found when I trod on his toe in a shop in Brighton , ’ says Sarah . |
| 9 | I stopped when she hissed at me to shut up and let her get on with it . |
| 10 | Erm I came when I came in England I came here . |
| 11 | Do you kn erm on the subject of I know last last time I came when I spoke to you that you were saying about you were saying about religion and it was and the fact that you erm go to church . |
| 12 | I noticed when i went by on Sunday , that all those houses have been built , right the way down to the , as you go on er p on erm on what 's the name of the place where they first er the first lot of . |
| 13 | In Spanish tradition , I rested when I wanted to on the bolts , 700 feet above ground , and with a little planning it was possible to use jugs for almost every move . |
| 14 | That 's the way I turned when I went in the jail . |
| 15 | This was certainly the case with Mrs S. , the mother of one of my teenage informants , born in rural Jamaica about 1930 , who moved to London about 1960 : I 've never work — I 've never really work when I was back in de West Indies my husband work , I worked when I came over here and I [ took a long time ] to get a job — because I could remember work at de Post Office and I when I pronounce my words you know too [ soft ] dey say dey do n't hunderstand — according to dem dey do n't hunderstand me , my haccent maybe it 's my haccent or what dey don " understan " it or ting an " I feel like I 'm speakin " the same English like over here . |
| 16 | I d I know that , there 's that phrase you know , we will never see his like again , I think we probably will , but it will be a very long time , and I can not tell you the infinite feeling of sadness erm , that I felt when I heard of his passing . |
| 17 | All I felt when I went to his surgery was a dryness of the throat and a quivering at the knees , and providing I kept my eyes tightly shut all the time I managed to get through the visit fairly easily . |
| 18 | If only that was what I felt when I looked in the mirror , instead of anxiety over these little springs of steel . |
| 19 | I ca n't remember much of what I wore when I arrived from Harehills in 1950 . |
| 20 | I did n't mean that I meant when you look at a tree it 's sort of got |
| 21 | But what I saw when we went to Spain in 1978 and I had a long , relaxed talk with James in the patio of our common hotel , actually frightened me . |
| 22 | I mean , I have n't done a detailed survey on anything , but I was pleasantly surprised by what I saw when I went in there , and I must say , I went there expecting it to be no more than a garden hut . |
| 23 | I laughed when I read of the things which they considered important : political creeds , literary cliques , careerist intrigues . |
| 24 | Mind you I would n't recommend having them next door like I did when I lived in South London . |
| 25 | The first thing I did when I got behind the houses was to get out of Nibs 's clothes . ’ |
| 26 | In fact I cried when I got to the top , but I think that that was just a release of emotion . |
| 27 | There 's , there 's another thing I , another thing I 'd like to mention which Chris has n't mentioned this afternoon is , that is that a lot of the pamphlets that you are handed out here , generate from 's office , copying and things like that , all very helpful , which would cost us a bomb outside , and we get them free , so you know , they , they do help the pensioner a great deal that 's why I said when she came in that 's a lady I admire very much and respect , cos she 's very good to pensioners . |
| 28 | ‘ I said when I came to Pittodrie that I wanted to go on playing for as long as possible , ’ Aitken said afterwards . |
| 29 | It is one of the first operas I conducted when I went to Ulm . |
| 30 | The first person she met when she walked through the backstage door was Josh , and , if the situation had n't been so terrible , his expression — which somehow managed to combine outrage , amazement and sheer blessed relief — would have been positively comical . |