Example sentences of "when [pers pn] found [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Egypt is host to thousands of Sudanese students and workers , and most of them appeared to be assembled outside the gates of the embassy when I found it one morning in a leafy street not far from the Nile . |
| 32 | It was almost dark when I found it and it was not until I arrived home that I could see its lovely design . |
| 33 | The black number you were wearing last night was still lying on the bathroom floor in a sodden heap when I found it this morning . ’ |
| 34 | When you found me ? |
| 35 | When you found one you wanted you 'd take her into the centre for a dance , ’ he says . |
| 36 | ‘ So if you did n't kill Nicola , why did n't you call the police when you found her body ? ’ |
| 37 | ‘ Was she like this when you found her , miss ? ’ he asked . |
| 38 | ‘ Were her eyes closed when you found her ? ’ |
| 39 | But I listened at the bedroom door when you found my terminal . |
| 40 | ‘ And when you found your brother dead , cold as ice in that battlefield , and trailed back to England to confess your deeds to your parents , what then ? ’ |
| 41 | Right that 's D O C and then you look on here and you look for a D O C , when you found it you put a ring around it alright ? |
| 42 | Genuine enough , he pulled your arms out for half the race until you asked him to quicken , when you found there was nothing in the tank . |
| 43 | And when you found I 'd had your heir , you 'd have brought me home fast enough . " |
| 44 | Erm was this something that you talked about with your husband when you found you you were pregnant , erm did you discuss it with him at all ? |
| 45 | She ran to a neighbour for help when she found her front door bolted . |
| 46 | When she found her mother was no longer giving her the attention she craved she worked harder to obtain it so she strewed more objects on the floor . |
| 47 | ‘ Mr Marsh , I wonder if I might accept your offer of help , ’ she said when she found him in the vestry . |
| 48 | She did n't know what she was going to do when she found him , but that did not matter right now . |
| 49 | Trudy had put up with his nonsense with great patience but when she found him busily working away in the region of her left ear it was too much . |
| 50 | Yet , when she found him , more or less alone in the bar parlour although she was aware of Ned O'Mara somewhere nearby , she could n't stop talking , words rushing out of her , spilling one over the other , over and over " Please , please , oh please , you can help me if you want to , I know you can , and I 'll go mad you see if they take my little boy away , because he 's not-not just as he should be — more delicate than he should be . |
| 51 | When she found him he screamed and hit out at her . |
| 52 | Mother went on like someone demented when she found him . |
| 53 | She was not quite sure what she was going to tell him when she found one . |
| 54 | Seemingly she had been living rough since her owner died and knew a good home when she found one . |
| 55 | All the same when he did return she got a shock when she found he was accompanied by Mike and a complete stranger and that one side of Ace 's face was bruised and swollen . |
| 56 | It 's like the story Mum used to read me when I was a kid about the white puppy-dog that got lost and its little girl owner looked everywhere for it and when she found it again she did n't recognize it because it 'd got so dirty it was n't her little white dog any longer . |
| 57 | When she found it the scene was stark . |
| 58 | The vicarage , when she found it , was of grey brick in the middle of a flat field , far from the village and out of sight of the church . |
| 59 | He sucked in his breath when she found it . |
| 60 | She had made it a habit never to leave medicines lying about since the time she found Emma sucking a Panadol , thinking it was a mint , but thankfully then having the sense to spit it out when she found it was n't . |