Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] when [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I glowed when they gave me their expert c , pinion that I was in most respects ‘ a normal young man ’ . |
| 2 | Not like the covenant which I made when I took them by the hand To bring them out of the land of Egypt — my covenant which they broke Although I was a husband to them , says the Lord . |
| 3 | we have had a letter back and it 's exactly the same as I got when I rang them up , if they just say it must not exceed a certain amount and they wo n't be tied down to tell me . |
| 4 | The shock I got when I found you out again will be nothing to their reaction . |
| 5 | God knows I tried when I realised what was happening to us , although it was like a starving man walking away from food for me . |
| 6 | But we all change , and I changed when I saw you . |
| 7 | Manchester City ! ’ he said , continuing the chant which was so like those I had heard at Manchester 's Maine Road ground that I marvelled when he said he had never been to England . |
| 8 | That 's why I panicked when I heard he was missing . |
| 9 | Yours worked when you married me . |
| 10 | For the last two days I have known what I lost when I left you and , while you should not have believed Havvie , I can understand why you did . |
| 11 | ‘ Love at first sight ’ is a very apt description of how I felt when I saw you in church today . ’ |
| 12 | I remember the excitement and relief I felt when I read it for the first time as a very young nun . |
| 13 | With nothing else to read , it seemed to have the edge on the income tax manuals ( though non-believers would say only just ) , so you can imagine how bad I felt when I opened it to find most of the pages had been razored to provide a nest for a small brown envelope . |
| 14 | ‘ What I meant when I said you were an asset , Matt , is that you provide the sexual fillip which Cadogan 's would otherwise lack . ’ |
| 15 | I do n't put a meaning on them for other people , they must form their own ideas ; I know what I meant when I made them , but it may not be the same thing for other people . |
| 16 | ‘ I told you everything I saw when you interviewed me before . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I came because I liked what I saw when you passed me in the corridor back in Helsinki . |
| 18 | I recoiled when she thrust it at me from a pocket . |
| 19 | I thought when we did we did that programme out to lunch in the summer and you came along and we talked all about buses and er your organization and I I I was very nice to you actually . |
| 20 | You know I thought when she explained it to me , not like some people think it 's dirty , I thought it was wonderful . |
| 21 | But I thought when he puts his mind to it he can really try ca n't he ? |
| 22 | ‘ The first thing I thought when I saw myself on video was , ‘ Gosh , do I really look that bad ? ’ ’ confides Kitty , who has the problematic body of your standard middle-aged woman : potbelly , cellulite , stretch marks . |
| 23 | well that 's I thought when I saw it coming out I thought oh goodness this is gon na be ten P a week , that 's the same for everybody , very good |
| 24 | That 's what I thought when I see her put her lights up . |
| 25 | None of the servants seemed at all curious about her , but I once heard two of the maids talking , and I listened when I caught her name . |
| 26 | I wept when they lowered her coffin into the ground . |
| 27 | In his chapter , ‘ Building on the class reader ’ , Foggin echoes the views of many of the English teachers to whom I spoke when he describes his English teaching as being substantially class reader based for the reason that : |
| 28 | " Only the house which I bought when I suggested you should leave the Community . |
| 29 | I oppose the carry-over motion for the Bill , as I did when we debated it a year ago . |
| 30 | Erm one , one of the statements that you did come out with when you , when you were saying about erm why you were there , you said about to make sure that your policy is performing how you wish it to which is as good a one as I did when I said you 're obviously satisfied with , with your Friends Provident contract cos we 're brilliant erm Martin asked the question about why has the , why has the bonus gone down and , and you overcame that objection er which was good and he , he was , he was satisfied with that . |