Example sentences of "say [that] when [pron] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says that when he got into the room the double bed was alight , he picked up the babies and got them out as quickly as he could . |
| 2 | I wa I was talking to erm Mr the other day and he was saying that when he started at the Co-op it was a , a very , very good place to work . |
| 3 | Er , we have been in er organising these new seats , about the same time as the Labour government took in nineteen seventy eight , er I said that when I intervened upon him and I say it again it 's worth paying on the records , exactly the same pressures have been on us as were as on them . |
| 4 | because he said that when I came into that corner I pulled in I 'd slowed too much and then had to drive round , drive round the corner with my left foot flat on the floor and I thought oh , should n't your left foot be flat on the floor when you corner and that 's probably what he was getting at , as I could off been slipping the clutch . |
| 5 | She looked at me and said that when I walked in this morning . |
| 6 | THE late Bruce Chatwin once said that when he worked at Sotheby 's he became acutely aware of indestructible objects of art surviving over the years while generations of human flesh decayed around him . |
| 7 | Mr Templeton said that when he arrived at the fire after 10pm , he had spoken to a man who was being treated for injuries in an ambulance . |
| 8 | I have to say that when we came across any martyrs , we tended to regard them with something approaching envy . |
| 9 | Irina is right to say that when I lived on my own I was a lonely man . |
| 10 | I said to Ted : ‘ We 'll say that when she went for the tram , the dog run after her . ’ |