Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb past] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They put things right with a smile when I got them wrong , and I fell into their ways and rhythm of working as well as I could . |
| 2 | My love for Rosalind was nothing compared to Juliet when I saw her beautiful dazzling |
| 3 | When I saw his blue eyes open wide in surprise , I felt very sorry I had lied , and that evening , as soon as I found Joe alone for a moment , I confessed to him that I had lied about my visit to Miss Havisham . |
| 4 | While I am on my feet , perhaps I may apologise for referring in an earlier answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Northampton , North when I meant my hon. Friend the Member for Littleborough and Saddleworth ( Mr. Dickens ) , who made the suggestion . |
| 5 | And then when I had my little girl er when she was about a year old |
| 6 | When I had my medical interview he said to me , ‘ You know what I think you should be in here for ? |
| 7 | A " feeling of knowing " sometimes accompanies an aspect of the dream which is carried over into wakefulness ( for instance the certainty that I could fly when I had my flying dream ) . |
| 8 | The Minister must have been asleep or doing something else when I raised my final point about the article in the education press in Scotland about the middle of last year . |
| 9 | When I wrote my novel Hitler Needs You ( we were the people Hitler needed most ) it was picked up for review by Elizabeth Thomas , literary editor of Tribune , as being the one book for her which showed what England was really like in the thirties . |
| 10 | ‘ Lou , ’ I said , when I heard his quiet , familiar voice on the phone . |
| 11 | When I told my big brother about the whole thing , he said I was bloody stupid ; I only had myself to blame . |
| 12 | Both sports were clearly popular and well-established traditions ; but when I asked my Indian friends about their survival in modern Delhi , they all shook their heads . |
| 13 | Were you afraid when I left you alone with Mason ? ’ |
| 14 | When I took my practical working examinations , making tree ties was worth a lot of marks and considered so vital that candidates who failed their tying failed tree planting , however well they did otherwise . |
| 15 | The pool that had been so jarringly empty when I took my premeditated dive into it with Terry , I fell into with Toby and found it full of champagne . |
| 16 | And hence Stephanie 's shock-horror performance when I made my innocent enquiries ? ’ |
| 17 | When I bought my old computer , it was originally just for word processing — for my books and articles like this one , for example . |
| 18 | ‘ I was given a hero 's welcome when I visited my local pub , ’ says dockworker Jimmy , 38 . |
| 19 | ’ BET YOUR bottom 's sore , ’ said a friend sympathetically when I described my six-day , 100-mile mule ride through the Sierra Nevada of southern Spain . |
| 20 | So when I found our old one dying , |
| 21 | Erm , and another form over here for a horse erm and then when I found my true self erm , here I am , Socrates , and I 'm trying to withdraw from my erm what erm called the empirical self . |
| 22 | When I learned your probable identity , and knew I had Kirtlington for my neighbour — ’ |
| 23 | When I established our environmental objectives in 1990 , I recognised that we had set ourselves some very demanding targets which could only be met through the continuous commitment and effort of everyone involved . |
| 24 | I thought I 'd get over it , because I did when I broke my other leg before . ’ |
| 25 | It was obvious when I missed my local subway stop . |
| 26 | I picked up my books and stuffed them away in my old school satchel , the one my father — Tata — had given me when I won my open scholarship to St Paul 's . |
| 27 | ‘ When you had them fresh you had a concrete floor . |
| 28 | It could well be , also , that you were over-optimistic when you made your original lists . |
| 29 | When you knew your basic arguments were so good , to fail to deliver a thrust of any strength seemed abysmal . |
| 30 | Let me put it another way , Bernard , when you uttered your little cry ‘ Bastard ! ’ |