Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] when i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He replied that there was n't , but that I should have asked for Operations when I got to Porto . |
| 2 | It gets light home use and was good value for money when I bought it . |
| 3 | ‘ I did n't know about Bella when I married her ; and I was an innocent abroad where women were concerned . |
| 4 | ‘ Ironically , I was possibly playing my best football for Tottenham when I left the club , but I knew there was no way back . |
| 5 | ‘ I was on my way home from New York with my brother Simon after a scouting mission for models when I spotted her at the airport with her father . |
| 6 | Tony tells us about his lone stay in the Westmann Islands off Iceland when I had to leave four days earlier than him . |
| 7 | ‘ I know he was very wrong to rob me but I 'm grateful he had a change of heart when I took ill . |
| 8 | The strangest of stories ( And of course when I told her that , she just threw me out of the house , my own Mother … well , Goodnight Mother , I can tell you ) were treated as entirely credible . |
| 9 | And er then of course when I got better It hit me all on the head and that well Then er when I went back to school they found out as I could n't see the board properly . |
| 10 | there were one or two lads in our unit who were sons of er , of er manufacturing , one was er Crawford Biscuits you know , I soldiered with him and I do n't know if you remember er erm , er but anyway , Frank , Frank at Keighley of course when I got , when we got married he , he came up and got us these blankets did n't he ? |
| 11 | Well of course when I went to the Isle of Man , see , I went on the boat and er , you see , and er it only cost me ninepence for a , a landing er for the landing stage . |
| 12 | I was a witness and so on you see and down below and the sergeant said to me , the sergeant came up and said to me , you 'll have to be careful because he said that boy , he was sitting there with his mother , poor woman , all in black and er the em the boy 's employer had got a solicitor on his behalf , you see , and I said well I can only speak through and say what happened , that 's all I can do and er , so of course when I went into the witness box this man came and er asked me all sorts of questions . |
| 13 | Yes a row of houses and of course when I saw I looked out the door and there was this plane swooping down like that and it seemed so low because they were aiming an and the bomb fell in the cattle market and , and I threw myself on to the stone floor , you see , and er and presently one of the ambulance men came round to my office door and he said , are you alright ? |
| 14 | It brought back to me the reality of the life I had so abruptly left behind : I had somehow assumed it would fade out of existence when I wanted , fade back in when convenient , unchanged . |
| 15 | I thought it was a terrible lot of money when I saw it . |
| 16 | I remember the shock of fear when I heard her scream and the sickening jolt of pain through my stomach when I saw the angle of her hand to her arm . |
| 17 | There was the same gap between understanding and the possibility of action when I read Simone de Beauvoir 's The Second Sex just before leaving university . |
| 18 | I 've come straight from the calving and I did n't even get a cup of tea when I 'd finished . |
| 19 | A mass of mail when I got back here — replies saying NO for example for the part time post of editor of the Episcopal Church paper up here and a NO from a firm opening up a new range of discount grocery stores . |
| 20 | ‘ I was n't getting any respect , any money ; I could n't even get hold of Richard when I wanted to , so I decided to put my foot down and straighten things out . |
| 21 | I really have never felt even a flicker of emotion when I sang the National Anthem . |
| 22 | I was able to climb to about 1,200′ at which height I felt it was safe enough for me to control any sudden change of attitude when I disengaged the auto pilot . |
| 23 | To speak more intelligibly , I never have made any arrangement of plot when I commenced a work of fiction , and often finish a chapter without having the slightest idea of what materials the ensuing one is to be constructed . |
| 24 | Then this would never have happened , or if it had ( I could n't bring myself to unwish an experience which still washed over me with waves of delight when I remembered it ) at least Toby would have known what he was doing , his eyes would have been open . |
| 25 | ‘ I received a lot of abuse when I left Brookside , not ME personally but in a way just as bad . |
| 26 | I had a split second of panic when I came into the office and saw her sitting quietly behind her desk , studying her image in her hand-mirror and conscientiously patting a stray red-gold hair into place . |
| 27 | I lost it in 1963 on the A30 west of Salisbury when I skidded on some diesel oil and rolled over and over . |
| 28 | Now the mix-up we had yesterday , er on a lot of aggro when I got about this dust extract system one line three . |
| 29 | Though the marker stone had been half out of water when I started to run , the whole barrage of banked stones , with the causeway atop , was suddenly aswirl and , as I raced for the crossing , the level seemed to rise a foot or more . |
| 30 | Well , I had moments of despair when I intended to shoot myself , but in the end I decided to bring the mad woman back to Thornfield Hall , where nobody knew that we were married . |