Example sentences of "when i heard [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , old Meg is not to be relied upon at all , owing to her unfortunate fondness for the bottle , and when I heard that she was the source of the story I said that it could n't possibly be the case , that she did n't know what she had seen , as usual — ’ |
| 2 | ‘ When I heard that I went straight into the toilet and threw up . |
| 3 | ‘ I was speechless when I heard that I had won , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Yet I did have a row with Arthur Calder-Marshall , so it gave me a pang when I heard that he had died last week . |
| 5 | And when I heard that he had asked and been given leave to go forth to Longner that night , I feared he meant to escape us , either by absence , or even by flight , having seen justice might overtake him yet . |