Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ When I heard that I went straight into the toilet and threw up . |
| 32 | ‘ I was speechless when I heard that I had won , ’ he said . |
| 33 | Yet I did have a row with Arthur Calder-Marshall , so it gave me a pang when I heard that he had died last week . |
| 34 | And when I heard that he had asked and been given leave to go forth to Longner that night , I feared he meant to escape us , either by absence , or even by flight , having seen justice might overtake him yet . |
| 35 | ‘ He took more than a proper liking to me , and when I indicated that I was not interested in his advances he had me cast off … without a reference , so that I can not find suitable employment . ’ |
| 36 | I have so looked forward to it , making all the things with Matey , and thinking of what we shall do with the money we make — which is stupid really , when I know that I could so easily give them so much more — But that would be nothing , for what I have done with Matey has been done by me , and not by Papa , for that is what giving them his money would mean . |
| 37 | ‘ I want to hear the soft sighs breaking from you when I make love to you … why should I stop now , when I know that you want it , too ? ’ |
| 38 | I 'll tell you about it later , when I know if it 's a good one . ’ |
| 39 | When when I 've when I 've gone if you just write about what you think about the lessons . |
| 40 | The worst bit was coming over the runway for the landing when I felt that I was no longer in control , but he made a perfect landing … a great landing for anyone , but incredible for someone who had never flown before . ’ |
| 41 | Later , when I felt that he could do with even more experience than he hid got at Warboys , I sent him up to RAF Grantham which at that time was training navigators . |
| 42 | When they first met , Charlie called the shots by improvising in front of the cameras and using his experience from films like Bright Lights , Big City , with Michael J Fox , and 18 Again , with George Burns He said : ‘ Kylie was a little nervous when I improvised and it threw her off . |
| 43 | ‘ I was aware when I came that I was only Warrington 's third choice , after Michael Hagan and Trevor Kissell , so I feel doubly lucky that things have gone so well . ’ |
| 44 | Erm oh I asked him about that when I went and he said it were nothing to worry about , it 's just |
| 45 | I was on the point of surrendering when I thought that it would be more dangerous to resume the subject on another occasion ; I also did n't trust my nerve . |
| 46 | When I asked if they could make me an identical one trimmed with black fur and beading instead , they were horrified but they agreed in the end . ’ |
| 47 | How many times had my heart sunk when I asked if we could go somewhere or try something new in our poems and he had answered with the excusing phrase ‘ I guess not ’ ? |
| 48 | ‘ You must be joking , ’ a Russian friend said when I asked if he would watch the May Day parade on television . |
| 49 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 50 | I met him two or three years later when I asked if he would make me a dress for the March of Dimes , using some peony pink silk that Winston brought back from China . |
| 51 | He returned with a symphonic battle piece , and when I asked if he realized the significance of the words he admitted he did not know what they meant ! ) |
| 52 | When I asked if I might walk through the camp and look at the castle from the other side , Cinderella looked distressed , so I said ‘ never mind ’ and made my way back to the stone stile . |
| 53 | To my relief , she was not shocked when I asked if I could spend most of my stay at Lough Corrib asleep in bed . |
| 54 | I thought I would go home when I left but it has been a long time . |
| 55 | And Morgan J well he was the headmaster when I went to school first and he was there when I left and he retired and he was still here You know going about . |
| 56 | The Fernies got rid of her when I left and she walked me to the front gate . |
| 57 | I smuggled a copy out when I left because I thought it was so funny . |
| 58 | But I mean he was very interested and when I said that we 'd actually done a recycling directory and that I was thinking |
| 59 | When I said that we would need a plant in our team , then would he be seen as being more of an innovator ? |
| 60 | I feel as though I 'm on a plateau at the moment although sh sh when I said that she said well i it is getting better so the |