Example sentences of "[adv] when i [verb] [pron] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I must pay tribute to them for both Dominic Quinn from Banbridge and John Bailie from Lurgan told me to take my time with the horse and bring him back only when I felt it was right to do so . |
| 2 | The food was not too good , nor too plentiful , so when I returned I was a lot lighter and a lot fitter . |
| 3 | I really did feel like a Queen for a moment , well , even longer when I found it was not a flash in the pan , but that they were really going to stay with us . |
| 4 | And just when I thought everything was changing for the better . |
| 5 | All the horror of my childhood experience with the escaped convict had come back to me , just when I thought it was safe to forget it . |
| 6 | Just when I thought I was being so enabling . |
| 7 | ‘ You would n't understand , ’ a young male engineer responded loftily when I asked what was wrong with the photocopier . |
| 8 | Now when I said you were very good at it I said what 's fifty as a fraction of one fifty ? |
| 9 | Even when I said I was family — well , yes , I know it was n't true but it seemed near enough the truth to use to persuade them neither of them would give her away . ’ |
| 10 | So I used to encourage his own poetry , and his ideas for poetic themes , even when I knew they were poor or did not interest me . |
| 11 | And even when I learned you were a prying journalist — and when I 've always preferred my walks to be solitary — what do I find but that I 'm asking if you would like to walk with me ! ’ |