Example sentences of "when i saw [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She looked well enough to me when I saw her on the cake section of the WI stall yesterday morning ! ’ |
| 2 | Later in that passage he wrote : ‘ It was n't until thirty years later when I saw her in another woman [ Elizabeth Taylor ] that I realised I had been searching for her all my life . ’ |
| 3 | On the day of the interviews I noticed that Jenny Ball was smartly dressed and in particular I also saw that she was wearing a wedding ring ; an item of jewellery that she seldom wore when I saw her in school on other days . |
| 4 | I was young and easily impressed , so when I saw her in the West Indies , beautiful and elegantly dressed , I thought I loved her . |
| 5 | ‘ Leith never said anything about agreeing to marry you when I saw her in the — ’ Travis left his own unhappy thoughts to start to exclaim . |
| 6 | Yeah I mean when I saw her round the park she said oh I 'm really enjoying it this |
| 7 | ‘ The first thing I thought when I saw myself on video was , ‘ Gosh , do I really look that bad ? ’ ’ confides Kitty , who has the problematic body of your standard middle-aged woman : potbelly , cellulite , stretch marks . |
| 8 | I 'd heard that American Music Club were something wonderful , but when I saw them at the Grand in Clapham recently , I was n't that impressed . |
| 9 | It was strange , the conversation Dad and I had , because when I saw him at home later and over the next few days he behaved as if it had never happened , as if he had n't told me he 'd fallen in love with someone else . |
| 10 | The question in Hunt 's mind , when I saw him at the beginning of the 1976 season , was whether changing teams and style was going to make a substantial difference in his way of life : in his informality , his private life , his sense of his own personal liberty . |
| 11 | When I saw him for the first time , I fell in love with him at once . |
| 12 | ‘ I promised myself I 'd smash his handsome face when I saw him on the prison-ship . |
| 13 | Yet , when I saw him on this occasion , he seemed more than usually calm and quiet , which , given that the most painful of interrupters might arrive at any hour , showed that when , in the very essay I was delivering to him , he had talked about the necessity for the ‘ discipline and training of the emotions ’ , he meant what he said and practised it . |
| 14 | When I saw him in the doorway I thought he 'd come to settle that score . |
| 15 | I did erm , mention , I think on one of them which was the erm Tim , this is the upstairs , I did actually mention that when I saw it to Roger . |
| 16 | I gave myself a brisk tub down with a towel — when I saw it in daylight it looked as though it had been run over by a lorry on a muddy building site — and changed every stitch of clothing . |
| 17 | When I saw you with your arms around each other , I thought maybe it needed pointing out . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't suppose it ever occurred to you that I was jealous when I saw you with him last night ? ’ he said softly . |
| 19 | Yes , you said that when I saw you at the station , ha ! ha ! ’ |
| 20 | Or perhaps I shoved the contents of your safe inside my robe when I saw you at the door . |
| 21 | ‘ When I saw you at the side of the road , it was as if a nightmare had come true . |
| 22 | ‘ When I saw you for the first time , I thought for a moment you were Sybil — come back to plague me . ’ |
| 23 | ’ When I saw you in Fif 's , ’ I said tentatively , ’ you seemed … not under your own control . |
| 24 | ‘ Love at first sight ’ is a very apt description of how I felt when I saw you in church today . ’ |