Example sentences of "when [pers pn] opened [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My eyes were shut most of the time now as I blundered round the park and when I opened them a red mist swirled . |
| 2 | ‘ I shut my eyes , the ball hit me on the nose , and when I opened them it was in the back of the net ’ . |
| 3 | Well I done my , we bank Barclays when I opened mine , they 're great over there |
| 4 | When I opened it I was surprised to find Mrs Phipps and Mrs Woods . |
| 5 | They were n't there when I opened it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When I opened it I found neat bundles of fivers , each one with a Bank of Berlin band around it . |
| 8 | It blew up in my face when I opened it . |
| 9 | But course when I opened it up Robert said Carolyn wanted that back he said she bought for herself and I said she did n't say that |
| 10 | no , so he said erm , when I opened it court order , I said well I do n't know what yours is I said but it 's nothing to do with this , I said this is about that so when I opened the other one I remember then that when they originally built that court order bit he give me one cheque for sixty two quid and one for sixty nine |
| 11 | When I opened my own season in Ulm with Tannhäuser , I had in my head an entirely new sound concept . |
| 12 | When I opened my mouth to speak on this topic it was as though my lips were sewn together with great stitches in the flesh , and my tongue would not move in my mouth . |
| 13 | As it also happens to be the only drinker on the Cherwell until you get to Islip , the murderous conspiracies and dark plots which so excite the Kidlington Kops amount to nothing more than the fact that when I opened my curtains that morning I saw the sun shining in a cloudless blue sky and decided to go for the longest and most pleasant of the river walks open to me . |
| 14 | I was to do the counting — up to a hundred ( I could n't count up to a hundred , I had to do it in tens ) and when I opened my eyes he 'd have disappeared . |
| 15 | When I opened my eyes , it had got colder , so I stood up , brushed off my blazer and set off back to the Gendarmerie . |
| 16 | And often we would lie together in the sun after a bathe , and kiss and caress each other , and it was a dear , familiar pleasure , associated in my mind and body with safety and mutual delight and no demands made ; his hands were wondering and tender , and his face when I opened my eyes to look at it had the extraordinary beauty it used to have when I had given him even this limited sensual happiness . |
| 17 | When I opened my eyes reluctantly , I was staring at a small piece of pavement miles below , between two sloping hills . |
| 18 | When I opened my eyes , there were two men in front of me . |
| 19 | Ward 's reply was lost in the sound of the engine , and when I opened my eyes again we were bumping along the bank of what looked like an old Inca canal . |
| 20 | When I opened my mouth to protest , I was like a goldfish blowing in its bowl . |
| 21 | It 's a wonder I did n't kill Benjamin but , when I opened my eyes , two of the rogues were dead of huge gashes between shoulder and neck whilst Benjamin was on the point of driving his sword straight through the breast of a third . |
| 22 | I had a terrible shock when you opened your eyes and looked so steadily at me . |
| 23 | ‘ Did you see anything when you opened your bedroom door ? ’ he asked , glancing sharply at me . |
| 24 | When you opened it there was a pull-out strip with pictures of all the Super Leeds team . |
| 25 | But when she opened her eyes , peering through the holes in her blanket , he was already back in the bedroom , turning on the little bedside light . |
| 26 | when she opened her eyes she was lying on one of the seats inside the shelter , and — horror of horrors ! — a huge crowd had collected . |
| 27 | When she opened her eyes , it was to see Stephen 's mother standing by the bed . |
| 28 | When she opened her eyes again Philippa was kneeling in front of her looking up at her . |
| 29 | But the texture of her sleep was light and shimmering and when she opened her eyes again much later , it did not seem as though she had slept at all . |
| 30 | When she opened her mouth to yell , a hand caught her face , pinching into the angle of the jaw so hard that the cry died in her throat . |