Example sentences of "[vb past] when i [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Goldberg delighted when I told him about the gauze and the draught , he wrote . |
| 2 | When trying to guess where someone went when I missed him at the airport I do not imagine his thoughts , I try to imagine his situation as someone like him would see it , and think ; if he tells me he has just learned he has cancer I may hear in imagination the doctor 's grave voice , but I do not imagine the fear , I feel the chill of it ; if I see him cut his finger I do not imagine the pain as something objective before my ‘ mind 's eye ’ , either I look on as though the knife were cutting through cheese or I incipiently wince . |
| 3 | ‘ Love at first sight ’ is a very apt description of how I felt when I saw you in church today . ’ |
| 4 | On the day of the interviews I noticed that Jenny Ball was smartly dressed and in particular I also saw that she was wearing a wedding ring ; an item of jewellery that she seldom wore when I saw her in school on other days . |
| 5 | Susie smiled when I thanked her for putting up with me . |
| 6 | 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 . |