Example sentences of "when they [verb] me [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have held my hand time and again , and even when they drove me to act I have abated my askings to keep the balance true and save Wales from worse enmity . |
| 2 | Some of the men , when they saw me looking at them , smiled shyly , and as if automatically scratched their swollen codpieces . |
| 3 | I heaped much obscene verbal abuse on various owners to the extent that several begin to leash in their ugly mutts when they saw me coming . |
| 4 | I 'm frank and candid by nature and so perhaps not surprisingly my career was blocked , former friends learned to cross the street when they saw me coming and I quickly became a non-person ; a communist speciality . |
| 5 | People had gone up to a house and been knocking on the door waiting for someone to come because the light had come on and they thought there must be somebody in because they switched the light on when they saw me come up the drive , and these are visitors . |
| 6 | But when they saw me walking out of the sea , they welcomed me warmly with cries of astonishment and delight . |
| 7 | When they saw me winning , the clubhouse went crazy with people cheering and whooping . |
| 8 | The 44-year-old composer said : ‘ When they let me know they could not afford to pay more than £6 million , I realised we had to step in to save it for the nation . |
| 9 | Think how scandalous that would be , McAllister , when they find me starved to death outside your door on the top landing . |
| 10 | They will come to the window when they see me to request food — but not to those of my friends who are unknown to them . |