Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] what " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was flattered when she first asked me , and curious , but when I 'd seen what it was like , I was n't interested . |
| 2 | I wondered if he thought Dana and I were about to tie the knot , or whether he was thinking of us individually — the latter , I think , because he had warned me against marriage once or twice before when I had shown what he regarded as too much interest in a woman friend . |
| 3 | Only when I began to realize what my situation was really like did I see the gospel for what it was — extremely good news for people in extremely bad situations . |
| 4 | This was to be her special torture then : just when she had discovered what a selfish , callous , calculating person Mark was , everybody was going to try and sell him to her . |
| 5 | She could n't worry about breathing when she had to understand what fitzAlan was saying . |
| 6 | The chairman and I demonstrated what needed to be done and how we hoped to fund the re-equipment of polyester , when we had invested what was necessary from the nylon cash flow . |
| 7 | Perhaps when we stopped asking what it meant to be fighting a war in Northern Ireland . |
| 8 | There were a few people who allowed themselves to feel the pain of loss , the pain of betrayal , when they began to understand what had really been happening in the Soviet Union . |
| 9 | ‘ You 'd think he 'd come for the Christmas or even write but never a word , no thought for anybody except himself , ’ and it cast a deep shadow when they tried to imagine what kind of space enclosed Luke in England during the same hour , but they were n't able to imagine it . |
| 10 | It no longer aroused feelings of exasperation , as it had done when he failed to link what had amounted to a form of work paralysis with the hopelessness which Dave must have felt about himself both at home and at school . |
| 11 | She came into it , mercilessly when he had heard what Gabriel had to say . |
| 12 | Major Vine , a small , strutting , dark-eyed , bad-tempered stoat of a man , always agreed with the Colonel when he managed to hear what the Colonel had actually said . |
| 13 | Marcus had n't given me any since I threw up in the hall and he stepped in it when he came to see what the matter was . |
| 14 | When he started saying what he felt about the new clothes , Vivienne piled into him . |