Example sentences of "when i [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So when I ran breathless into the kitchen , he gave me a friendly warning . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I remember my pride when I grew big enough and strong enough to fetch and carry the two gallon water cans for my father . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ You 've upset me now , ’ he growled , ‘ and do you know what happens when I get upset ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I come here when I get depressed . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps when I get tired of flying , I 'll look underwater ! ’ |
| 11 | When I get tired I stop at green lights — I 'm always doing that . |
| 12 | And I always listen when I get crossed lines . |
| 13 | It might be when I get used to it . |
| 14 | Actually , my friends at church , back home , used to call me erm , cos I , I sort of sometimes squeal when I get excited . |
| 15 | He thinks I 'm jealous when I get annoyed at his bad manners . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | When I got used to the light I could see two men sitting grinning at me . |
| 18 | He was glad when I got pregnant to start off with , but he 's changed . |
| 19 | 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 , |
| 20 | It was a bad one for me right from the start when I got involved in the spinning at the first corner . ’ |
| 21 | I found when I got involved in my relationship with Angus in 1970 there was a real sort of tension . |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | When I won the 1991 Belgian Open and when I got engaged . |
| 24 | Although I was tempted to think that such a short time would make no difference , I knew that when I got near to Kano , if I got that far , every minute would count . |
| 25 | He liked me to air my opinions in front of our friends , most of whom felt as he did : he said I looked so pretty when I got excited . |
| 26 | When I got clear of them I went down almost to sea level and there were two holes in the water about where my two would have gone in . |
| 27 | When I got level with them , I rounded on Quigley . |
| 28 | When I got level with the Bunker I banked inland , slowing as I hit the soft white sand further up the beach . |
| 29 | Well they , I had to go to Road police station , London , it was quite good , the detective took , took me around that little area and er then when I got ready to collect to take him to Liverpool Street Station , I saw him for the first time , man about sixty one and he 'd got two suitcases , one lighter than the other , and while I was signing for him and his property I said to him , you take that light one and I 'll take the bigger one with the view to getting on the bus to get to Liverpool Street st but the inspector there was very good , he said I 'm not going to oh and I said to you take the light case I 'll take the high one , he said I ca n't carry anything , I got a rupture . |
| 30 | When I got old enough I used to add my own bits to the story — it was sort of a game we played — an escape . |