Example sentences of "when i [vb past] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember being thrilled when I got the first whicker of recognition from my horse and most people feel happier and more confident riding a horse they know — even if it is n't well behaved ! |
| 2 | Most of them broke when I peeled the real leaf off the chocolate which I 'd painted on — not quite up to Mum 's standards of patience and perfection , but who ever saw lots of perfect leaves ( not on a tree ) anyway . |
| 3 | I 'd just turned on to York Way when I spotted the two city gents who 'd been drinking in the pub . |
| 4 | When I announced the Green Paper last July , the hon. Gentleman said that he would examine our proposals carefully . |
| 5 | One survivor says : ‘ When I saw the first bomb fall , I knew that it was going to be a bad day for America ’ . |
| 6 | I mean it was cursory , it became cursory when I saw the bloody pile of stuff that I 'd got to read , and I thought , ‘ Well I 'll you know we 'll skip that and I 'll just say what a wonderful lot you are for doing so much . ’ |
| 7 | When I saw the awful shape that was coming towards us out of the fog , my blood turned cold . |
| 8 | I was just going to the exit door when I saw the young girl s standing at the second bedroom , crying . |
| 9 | As a conservator in Europe , involved with the treatment of stone and marble affected by the ravages of twentieth-century pollution , I was delighted when I saw the great marble buildings at Agra seemingly unaffected by such problems . |
| 10 | When I saw the potential ability of so many of my opponents and how young so many of them were , I realised that I would have to devote more time to practice than there was in a day just to become a moderate professional . |
| 11 | When I saw the next auberge coming up , I drew in to the side of the road , put on my raincoat , and walked along to it . |
| 12 | When I saw the red dress , I knew that was the one I wanted . |
| 13 | I really have never felt even a flicker of emotion when I sang the National Anthem . |
| 14 | When I congratulated the poor girl , she almost fainted . |
| 15 | I was struck when I attended the first conference on corporate governance after the draft Cadbury Report was published . |
| 16 | O'Keeffe 's immediate reaction to the criticism generated by the 1923 show is not known , but it is clear from a letter she wrote to Mitchell Kennerley of the Anderson Gallery in the autumn of 1922 , soon after Rosenfeld 's second article appeared , that she had objected from the beginning to Hartley 's and Rosenfeld 's assessments of her and her art : ‘ You see Rosenfeld 's articles have embarrassed me — [ and ] I wanted to lose the one for the Hartley book when I had the only copy of it to read — so it could n't be in the book . ’ |
| 17 | And that was a fortnight ago when I had the first scan . |
| 18 | erm , why is it so much higher than the similar figure , the same figure for , my sub team , when I had the same number of stage one decisions and one more stage two decision ? |
| 19 | Well really when I had the same thing , you know , and goes back for a little bit this morning and er same sort of thing . |
| 20 | In theory , it takes a few seconds for the machine to recognize a new card , but in practice it worked so fast that when I inserted the Flash RAM card and typed ‘ dir A ’ , the machine responded instantly with a list of the card 's contents . |
| 21 | She put some spring water on my wart one evening and it was gone when I woke the next day . ’ |
| 22 | He still was n't back when I returned that night , and when I woke the next morning , his side of the bed had n't been slept in . |
| 23 | I was in my room sorting out what I was to take with me when I heard the front door . |
| 24 | When I heard the rowdy noise earlier , I was sure that there was a John Doe — dead on arrival — back from Maastricht . |
| 25 | I laughed when I heard the old cliché about ‘ having him under my feet . ’ |
| 26 | I was debating whether to try to stop the bleeding first or to leave him in his uncertain state while I found a way out , trusting he would n't totally pass out , when I heard the main door creak open directly above our heads ; the way Harry and I had come in . |
| 27 | When I kissed the dark mole , she laughed again and held the back of my head , tight so I could n't breathe . |
| 28 | When I told the Head Girl , she explained that the French girl was a lesbian . |
| 29 | As I now personally from one of my previous lives in nineteen eighty-two , when I became the first Director of the newly independent National Federation of Community Organisations . |
| 30 | It was not until about a year later , when I became the High Master of Warboys , that I took him into Warboys and made him a sort of Staff pilot flying Oxford aircraft on special navigational training exercises ; this was something that I could physically check and I do not know why it is , and I am not being clever now , I just accepted the evidence he gave me of this phoney flying . |