Example sentences of "when [pers pn] reached [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was feeling pretty angry with her as I stomped across that big field , but when I reached her my heart just melted . |
| 2 | When I reached her , I stopped dead , appalled by what I saw . |
| 3 | ‘ Bring a bowl of ice , will you ? ’ he said when I reached him . |
| 4 | The man you knifed was n't dead when I reached him . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ When I reached her window , |
| 6 | He moved faster than I would have thought anyone could on a train and was already talking into a radio headset when I reached his office . |
| 7 | When I reached my 19th birthday , I received several nice presents from Mum , Carl , Etty and Jerry . |
| 8 | When I reached my flat on the ground floor of a huge house in a quiet road off Putney Hill , I reflected that it had been , to put it very mildly , a somewhat taxing day . |
| 9 | When I reached my office , cross and flustered , it was to find the office girls clustered round Mavis 's desk and Geoff Tulloch in the middle of them . |
| 10 | When I reached my gate I could still see her grey shape at the door . |
| 11 | A very straight military-type man was waiting for her when she reached her own pigeon-hole , which she shared with her assistant ( off sick ) . |
| 12 | When she reached her ambition , Hollywood , over-zealous publicity backfired on her : she was pushed into her own swimming pool by a sensation-seeking photographer along with her husband , Dennis Hamilton , who had vowed to make her ‘ the female Errol Flynn ’ . |
| 13 | When she reached her stop Maggie got off and paused to stare out over Glasgow Green , spotting the People s Palace in the distance . |
| 14 | When she reached her own room , she had decided never to tell him her great secret . |
| 15 | When she reached her front door , inside the house , she felt Ruth 's absence , and going in , the flat was empty . |
| 16 | When she reached her own desk , she perched on the edge and raised her eyebrows at Matt . |
| 17 | It was hard to walk without making a crunching sound , but she did her best , relaxing only when she reached her car and slid carefully into the driver 's seat . |
| 18 | When she reached her room Lucy lay on the bed to review the situation , the main point occupying her mind being the fact that Silas was not yet married to Doreen . |
| 19 | And when she reached her room Lucy told herself her flushed cheeks were merely the result of the climb up the slope . |
| 20 | When she reached her room and bent to open the door the key stubbornly refused to turn . |
| 21 | When she reached her bedroom , she opened the door , crossed quickly to the vanity table , and snatched up her sunglasses . |
| 22 | ‘ Can you tell me how far it is to Karlovy Vary and Františkovy Láznë ? ’ she asked the male receptionist when she reached her hotel . |
| 23 | The man and the girl were guiltily rearranging their clothing when she reached them . |
| 24 | ‘ Hello , Maggie , ’ the Reverend Barr said when she reached him . |
| 25 | He was climbing the ladder when she reached him , and had a pitchfork in his hand . |
| 26 | When she reached him he did not turn his head to acknowledge her . |
| 27 | When she reached him , she put out a hand to grasp his arm . |
| 28 | Even though she was making light of it , Charlie could n't mistake the fire that animated her when she reached his entries for the final night of Christine Ashdown 's brief career . |
| 29 | ‘ She left me a note , ’ Eliot told Rain when she reached his office . |
| 30 | Perhaps she would feel the same when she reached his age . |