Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So when I ran breathless into the kitchen , he gave me a friendly warning . |
| 2 | My 100 metres time did n't improve at all that year , and it took me until September to better my indoor 200 metres best outdoors when I ran 21.6 seconds at Woodford Green . |
| 3 | I had caught an eider duck that had been sheltering on a lochan and was flying back with it against the wind when I grew tired . |
| 4 | I remember my pride when I grew big enough and strong enough to fetch and carry the two gallon water cans for my father . |
| 5 | Yes yes yes when when when I grew older , of course it took all the men When er you know one would b the the whole lot would be going together you know . |
| 6 | Thus a migrant son from a Scottish island croft answers his parents ' call : ‘ when I grew old , I had to come home to be with them . ’ |
| 7 | I 'm not sure , but I think when I studied this in college I think it was something like the average of producers of vocabulary of less than two thousand words . |
| 8 | The chair with the wobbly leg , the dented saucepans , the knives with loose handles , all were gathered up and restored if possible , mainly by Nigel , who , when I produced new casualties almost weekly as the season wore on , would sigh and say patiently , ‘ Put it on my bench , darling . ’ |
| 9 | For a few days I had even considered calling the shop Trumper and Salmon , but dropped that idea when I realised that would only tie me in with Charlie for life . |
| 10 | It sort of erm in Italian wine once or twice but when I ordered this I took the care to order up |
| 11 | When I lived right on the job it used to drive my wife round the bend — I 'd be at home on a weekend , perhaps in the garden , and I 'd think about something in the greenhouse across the road so I 'd go over there and disappear for an hour whereas perhaps I should have been giving more time to my family . |
| 12 | Needless to say , they went straight to the police , just as I 'd done when I received that first threat . |
| 13 | The Minister is aware that when I received that letter I immediately tabled a question on the matter , and had subsequent correspondence with her fellow Under-Secretary of State , who has been most helpful and concerned . |
| 14 | my copy of the constitution that I filed away so neatly when I received that months ago . |
| 15 | It happened when I was forced on to a very low fat diet for health reasons ( I had a gall bladder that grumbled very painfully when I ate fatty food ) . |
| 16 | She laughed the same way as when I 'd first seen her . |
| 17 | well yeah now , but you , you were saying this , we , we had this conversation when I 'd first got here , before any of this started to happen |
| 18 | A gang of girls I met in Coventry hanging around with some boys who , like them , were unemployed , said that when they were younger they did a bit of vandalising : " When I got pissed I smashed the windows of posh houses , " said one of them . |
| 19 | When I got used to the light I could see two men sitting grinning at me . |
| 20 | He was glad when I got pregnant to start off with , but he 's changed . |
| 21 | I could n't believe it when I first , first year of marriage and when I got pregnant , er , we 'd walk into her , well it 's her daughter 's erm sitting room , she 'd struggle up out of an arm chair and I 'd think oh gosh , I know she must n't get up for me , got the tummy out here , |
| 22 | And er then of course when I got better It hit me all on the head and that well Then er when I went back to school they found out as I could n't see the board properly . |
| 23 | It was a bad one for me right from the start when I got involved in the spinning at the first corner . ’ |
| 24 | I found when I got involved in my relationship with Angus in 1970 there was a real sort of tension . |
| 25 | When I got that letter June and , were it Tuesday ? |
| 26 | I can actually recall a press release which came to me about a a principal tourism officer who had just been appointed to be the head , you know the president for the year of his professional body , and in his own town a press release was put out in which his name was incorrectly spelt , and the conference at which he was about to be invested was actually taking , and I blush to say that it was in Brighton , I can only tell you when I got that press release I did what I frequently do , which is outline in highlighter the mistakes on the press release , put it back into the envelope and send it back to the relevant officer . |
| 27 | And then I got twenty , I could n't believe it when I , when I got twenty quid off my other grandma , she normally gives us a fiver . |
| 28 | I hope you 're planning to bring that down when I got sunburnt you you thought that you 'd been cheated did n't you ? |
| 29 | and then when I got this sheet when I joined choir went , Oh yeah I remember |
| 30 | Marie and me were on our honeymoon , staying with my brother in Darlington , when I got this letter from my mother saying we must come back immediately because they were starting the shoot . |