Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb past] [prep] [pron] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I played with him he enacted pretend battles between warring camps of soldiers . |
| 2 | But when I wrote to him it did n't work out ; he was much too polite and too adoring I do n't want to be adored , I want to be used and abused , I want to be treated with contempt . |
| 3 | However , while North Circular-bound a few months back I was flipping through the channels on the radio trying find something decent when I came across what I later learned to be Hey from the recent ‘ Upfront ’ album by David Sanborn . |
| 4 | And er , when I went to me I found out it in the post It was in the post , that I was picked . |
| 5 | Looking at what Micky 's like and everything , when I thought before what it would be like and what the situation actually is , I think basically you 're in another world , you know what I mean ? |
| 6 | must be when I looked at it they 'd been grown in the field , because it 's burnt , you can see it 's got this reddish muck where all the mud down |
| 7 | well I , getting back to the picture you see , I , when I looked at it I thought good god it 's our Bill , I , I you could of thought it were twin brothers when I |
| 8 | when I looked at it I wanted to do it . |
| 9 | When I shouted in it I thought you were joking . |
| 10 | So I , when I proved to you it did n't work you were satisfied . |
| 11 | Large armchairs , with loose covers , looked comfortable , but when I sat in one it had a broken spring . |
| 12 | ‘ When I auditioned for him I made a great impression — or so I was told . |
| 13 | And so he 's the one who started doing this — I do n't know if you remember Rolling Stone during that period he started getting slight , not really new wave , but we used some of the constructivist thing of breaking pages somewhat and pushing things on angles or erm My favourite was his Bob Dylan spread which actually I did , but it was based on what he was trying to get me to do , where everything read left to right and everything was , you know , point sizes lined up and everything was on a column grid , but it was , when you looked at it you had to , you know , like focus on it . |
| 14 | Not that it meant very much , because when you thought about it it was n't something really to celebrate but today , June 28th , was his birthday . |
| 15 | She had told him once as they lay at peace in bed that the sleep after childbirth , an unconsciousness that might only last a split second , was the most complete sleep she had ever known and when you woke from it you felt you had been elsewhere for a hundred years . |
| 16 | He knew that when she looked at him she saw a leaking penis . |
| 17 | Her eyes were as blue as the patch of bright sky which had suddenly emerged from between the clouds and when she looked at him he was sure there was invitation in their depths . |
| 18 | Yet when she looked upon him she could not but believe that his sincere eyes could tell no lie . |
| 19 | And when she came to me she was already pregnant . ’ |
| 20 | But when she came to me she just said : ‘ How are things going with your single — what 's involved ? ’ |
| 21 | When she came to us we packaged her new hardback in a larger format and spent a lot more on the artwork — foil on the cover , head and tail bands — which made the books look that much more special . |
| 22 | I 'm not having it er she did n't do the , when she said to me I want to speak to you about it , she said , you know , she was n't involving me at all was she ? |
| 23 | She lives in a field with some others , and when she walked towards me I realised I was n't properly prepared , and found myself saying , ‘ How do you say hello to a pig ? ’ |
| 24 | But when she glanced at him she saw he was supporting his chin on one hand and gazing directly at her . |
| 25 | I can only guess that for erm some reason the bolts on the back of the chair fell off , or came lose and when she sat on it she leaned on the back , in an unusual position and fell through ! |
| 26 | but then when we went into it they said erm obviously look at the development plans and it would go ahead eventually for something there , they did n't state what . |
| 27 | In the second half when we went at them we forced plenty of corners but could make nothing of them . |
| 28 | The postal service was rather vague in these remote villages , and perhaps a letter had gone astray , for when we arrived at what we thought would be our host 's house , we found that the old perpetua did not know we were coming . |
| 29 | I nodded to them , but when they looked at me I turned away quickly , for fear I should see them exchange puzzled glances . |
| 30 | The tunnel sloped downward , and when they emerged from it they halted . |