Example sentences of "[is] when i [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's when I thought you could make money out of gardening . |
| 2 | She said well , tell Grant , she said he can have a reprieve , she said it 's May the eighth and , and she says , she probably heard me say it was Friday and that 's when I thought it was this Friday , so I had to phone erm the receptionist at daddy 's works , so she was going to pass on the message to daddy just to tell him just to work late as usual , Grant , rather than come in at teatime and then go back to work again . |
| 3 | then it 's a national account , but in terms of the guy not seeing anybody we went to him to sort out what was going on and she must have come away there from with all the sites and said I should n't be dealing with this , it 's a national account , it 's the national account and that 's when I said you must pass it over to then |
| 4 | That 's when I told her the rest . |
| 5 | And that 's when I hear it : |
| 6 | That 's when I switch it off . |
| 7 | About three months before I finally , I was husband made me go to the doctor or go to the doctors for me and that 's when I realized it was depression I did n't know anything about it then . |
| 8 | When I realised there was nothing else to do in the world but write my own songs and play , that 's when I brought them out and did them . |
| 9 | But it 's not just the sore throat , it 's when I cough it hurts all over . |
| 10 | Oh were they not made what 's that flashing for ? that 's when I like them when they 're juicy made |
| 11 | It 's not like sore , it 's when I move it it 's |
| 12 | So I stormed off again down to the office and that 's when I found her . |
| 13 | my dad was saying , you know it 's , it 's when I did it it was really good and everything , you know , as long as you do n't get addicted it 's okay but try because you 're going to when you get older , |
| 14 | That 's when I want you here to keep a watch on him . ’ |
| 15 | With my family growing up I was needing more money and er that 's when I decided I would apply for a foreman 's job at . |
| 16 | And that 's when I see it . |
| 17 | But anyway , the railways there was a spurt on between in the late sixties on the railway and that 's when I think I was sure , not only because I was a branch secretary at the time but I 'm sure that all the British Railways there was a greater awareness of the fact that we had been deceived by the word nationalization . |
| 18 | And that 's when I think it starts to get into into shady ground where where the woman has n't actually said no because she feels intimidated not by violence but by social pressure . |
| 19 | That is what annoys about it or fair enough if they have n't got any money they get these handouts but when they 're working and they still get them that 's when I think it 's wrong ! |
| 20 | There 's nothing wrong with it but that 's when I do it . |
| 21 | And that 's when I say we have a , a campaign which is going to , it 's a demonstration and er and rally in the end of March , of next year . |
| 22 | Add a negative number , this is when I said I 'm going to add minus eight pounds to your money tonight , add a negative number is the same as take away a positive number . |
| 23 | We never let her out , the only time she goes out is when I take her to the shop . |
| 24 | The only cleaning the house gets is when I force him to put the Hoover round on pain of a black eye . |
| 25 | Well I was saying to Alison , the only thing I can do is when I phone him |
| 26 | Then I imagined Lewis , boots tied round his neck , for some reason suddenly resembling Shane MacGowan , skinning her jeans off , not me , and he turned into Rodney Ritchie , at home with his parents , unpicking the individual stitches of her jeans with a tiny knife , and the Ritchies all wore badly-fitting jeans and had denim curtains and denim carpets and denim light shades and denim wallpaper with the little rivets left on like poppers so you could just press paintings and photos onto the wall … except that Mr Ritchie looked like Claude Levi-Strauss , which is when I think I started to get confused . |