Example sentences of "when i [vb past] [pron] about " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Is it only two weeks since that bleak morning when I had nothing for a future and everything seemed too late , when I dragged myself about the house , alone and miserable and weighed down by self-pity ? |
| 2 | Goldberg delighted when I told him about the gauze and the draught , he wrote . |
| 3 | ‘ You did n't seem very surprised , ’ he said , ‘ when I told him about the note . ’ |
| 4 | When I told him about the Whitehorse Cinema manager offering him $500. to fly up to open the new building , he laughed loud and long . |
| 5 | Then when I told him about the baby he was more definite . |
| 6 | Like poor Lanyon when I told him about my new ideas . |
| 7 | " I gave him the idea , " Timothy said , " when I told him about my dad . |
| 8 | That was why when I told him about my LCC-subsidized visit to Paris , he insisted that I should pay calls on friends of his like Paul Valéry , Jacques Maritain and Charles du Bos ; and he set about providing me with letters of introduction . |
| 9 | When I told him about Marlborough , he cheered up a little . |
| 10 | He did n't believe me when I told him about you , which just goes to show how much people judge by outward appearances . |
| 11 | She runs a sort of company for readings and uncostumed actings of unusual plays , and when I told her about Unisoculous she said she would put it on . |
| 12 | When I told her about this |
| 13 | when I told her about and she come running back to me on phone the other week Glenys , Glenys , she said will you tell people if they spend twenty five pound at Tescos , I thought well that wo n't be me , or is it thirty , you get a thing and to take it to school to put towards computers |
| 14 | When I told her about this . |
| 15 | When I questioned him about this , he replied enigmatically that certain rock formations which had existed when they had arrived , had since disappeared and that he could swear that the rocks in some places had moved closer together . |
| 16 | In Oxford , the voice of the gnomic Professor Sammy Finer , a declared political agnostic , rose a full octave when I asked him about it : ‘ It simply is n't true any longer that merit will out . |
| 17 | When I asked him about the Galapagos T-shirt he was wearing , he merely snapped , ‘ No , I have n't been . |
| 18 | ‘ I clearly got up his nose when I asked him about a report which disputed his status as a big box-office draw , ’ says Barry . |
| 19 | ‘ When I asked him about it he told me : ‘ Leave me alone — I 'm working . ’ |
| 20 | When I asked him about sheets , he said , I buy them new , tell me when you want some more . |
| 21 | When I asked him about the college he volunteered only that it was an experimental community of researchers and students — ‘ the kind of imaginative endeavour you will find only in the States . ’ |
| 22 | When I asked him about his nose he actually growled at me . |
| 23 | Old hands from the music business — usually loquacious if invited to reminisce — were struck by collective amnesia when I asked them about Dury . |
| 24 | When I asked them about it they all said : ‘ Oh , you 've had cats all your life , you wo n't get it ’ ’ . |
| 25 | When I asked them about it later , they said , oh no , we have no intention of doing Anthems of the Nations , perhaps you would like to do it for us . |
| 26 | I also found an envelope lying around in the bathroom the other day with a list of numbers on the back , and when I asked her about it , she took it silently out of my hand . |
| 27 | But you said you you when I asked you about the clinic on Street you thou you thought had heard of it . |