Example sentences of "when i [vb past] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hated it when I had to leave there |
| 2 | ‘ When I managed to get upright I saw him cocking the gun again , thought he was going to shoot me again and moved towards him to defend myself . ’ |
| 3 | When I came to train properly I was already aware of the professional background . |
| 4 | Everything was perfect except that when I came to train experimentally naive monkeys , I discovered that they did not like peanuts . |
| 5 | ‘ I signed a contract when I came to work here . |
| 6 | And when I went to play occasionally near to their house , Mrs Thwaites would bring out large sweet biscuits for me . |
| 7 | ‘ I was about four months pregnant when I started to feel quite poorly , ’ says Leslie . |
| 8 | Someone has said I 'm a well-known gangland figure , and I probably ran into an ambush when I tried to return home . |
| 9 | I was already shivering with cold , but when I tried to walk faster my heart pounded unpleasantly . |
| 10 | When I tried to discover just what was really meant when it was said of a particular girl that she had been " married " in this sense seven times before she was nineteen , I was told that if a girl was seen to be cooking a meal for a man this was evidence that she was " married " to him . |
| 11 | So , when I wanted to grow slightly tender plants in my none-too-mild Midlands garden , I decided to bring them up to be as tough as possible . |