Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [adj] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I first went to see Timo Metsola I had to represent myself as a reporter from that magazine . |
| 2 | When I first went to see him , I went to a , Chatham Barracks . |
| 3 | Oh w when I first went to place I I had to er I had to clean er clean I had to I was like a scullery maid . |
| 4 | As I 'm sure you 'll understand , when I first came to see this awful situation I was consumed with a feeling of frustration — knowing , as I did then , that it could be some time before we 'd be in a position to intervene . |
| 5 | And I knew I had been a child when I first came to live with him . |
| 6 | When I first came to live here this room ran through to the back of the house , but my husband put up a partition , so we have a small room at the back where we can have our meals . |
| 7 | I tried to tidy up a bit when I first came to work here , but I soon found out I was wasting my time . |
| 8 | When I first began to research their past , the brothers were men cloaked in mystery ; a mystery it appeared , that deliberately cultivated . |
| 9 | When I first began designing for double jacquard , which was quite a long time ago , there was little or no information available and not many knitters used the technique , so over the years I learnt the hard way by trial and error . |
| 10 | ‘ When I first became involved , getting the Olympics to Britain was n't on anybody 's agenda within sport , not the Minister 's , not the Sports Council 's , not the BOA 's or any sports body . ’ |
| 11 | When I when I first got to know the flats , certainly after the the incident of a of an elderly lady being erm being mugged and beaten up by some some kids up there . |
| 12 | When I first got to know him he was in a very bad state and he he really was . |
| 13 | When I first got married I got terribly depressed , because coming from a big family there was always something going on at home . |
| 14 | Well I got to know about them when I first got married , when I was in the back street , you know in the terraces . |
| 15 | Oh I li well I , I 've had a lot of moves dear in my time I tell you I , first of all when I first got married I lived at Bishop 's Stortford , then from Bishop 's Stortford I went to erm Stansted in rooms cos I , you know we could n't get a place and from there I had one of my sons oh hello time , eleven o'clock just struck what 's the day ? |
| 16 | Oh yes , yes in the , in the window yes I think and many and many a ticket I got when I first got married to my first wife I used to do my mother-in-law 's little tickets for all the various custards , and , and Eccles cakes and four for thruppence ha'penny it does n't of course I could print right you see she said , being a draughtsman I always could print right so I used to do the four for thruppence ha'penny . |
| 17 | when I first got married I er , well not first |
| 18 | Anyway , when I first wanted to buy us own house when we first got married we were talking twelve how much ? |
| 19 | When I first decided to go into acting , my mother went mad — it was quite understandable , we did n't know anything about the acting profession . |
| 20 | Another little trick I use when I first begin to fish the swim is to throw just two handfuls of feed , well-spread , across the river . |
| 21 | For instance , when I first started writing , and had completed my first novels , I was not allowed to sign a contract for it . |
| 22 | When I first started teaching drama I accepted the prevailing dogma that you started by getting children to work individually , then in pairs , then in small groups and eventually ( when they were really good at drama ) in larger groups ! |
| 23 | Example : The Circus When I first started teaching drama the stock infant lesson was " making a circus " ! |
| 24 | When I first started thinking about Christmas , I decided to spend it alone and stuff myself with food . |
| 25 | Erm the danger is I think when I first started meeting people , right , you know |
| 26 | Erm , I found it was like reading Shakespeare when I first started reading Shakespeare . |
| 27 | Sort of when I first started using it at work |
| 28 | No I remember from what I can remember anyway when I first started using negative numbers it was on a graph . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'll ask no leading questions , as I remember how I loathed them when I first started seeing a lot of Tom . |
| 30 | And yo when I look back an and er and think of even when I first started nursing a lot of the girls we used to get in , they thought if they kissed a man they were going to have a baby . |