Example sentences of "my [noun sg] when i [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I dressed in black to reduce the chance of being seen and could n't believe my luck when I found that the house opposite his was unoccupied , with big bushes in the front garden that I could hide behind . |
| 2 | IT lifted my sorrow when I saw that the Mirror finally shamed the blundering DSS into paying a disabled man 's benefit increase after a nine-month delay . |
| 3 | I 'm just about to put it away in my file when I see that there is something else pencilled upside down at the bottom . |
| 4 | I have often much ado to keep my countenance when I hear and see him , though really the man means well ; and Oh ! he does load one with such great , big , thumping , barefaced compliments , bestowing a pretty decent one on himself now and then . ’ |
| 5 | Imagine my surprise when I discovered that this was exactly what she did . |