Example sentences of "when i [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Is it only two weeks since that bleak morning when I had nothing for a future and everything seemed too late , when I dragged myself about the house , alone and miserable and weighed down by self-pity ? |
| 32 | Then , when I see there is the doubt , that when I tell him about the baby . |
| 33 | ‘ Proctor played well when I brought him into the team . |
| 34 | I began to see the nervousness in your eyes whenever I got too close to you , and when I kissed you at the inn I knew that Matilda had lied about one point at least . |
| 35 | I suspected it last night , and you confirmed it for me when I touched you in the lift on the way up to the restaurant tonight . |
| 36 | ‘ I 'm very shocked and disappointed for Ricky , ’ said Stewart when I told him of the retirement news . |
| 37 | I had an abortion , without telling anyone ; the father left me when I told him of the pregnancy . |
| 38 | Goldberg delighted when I told him about the gauze and the draught , he wrote . |
| 39 | ‘ You did n't seem very surprised , ’ he said , ‘ when I told him about the note . ’ |
| 40 | When I told him about the Whitehorse Cinema manager offering him $500. to fly up to open the new building , he laughed loud and long . |
| 41 | Then when I told him about the baby he was more definite . |
| 42 | And then the solicitor asked us to advised us to have certain things amended and Mr had no problem when I told him over the telephone , he just said send it back and we 'll just amend it . |
| 43 | The essay has since been listed in several bibliographies , and has exerted an influence which , when I composed it as a kind of riposte to the British Council 's purchase of the copyright of that crack-brained idea from its originator , C. K. Ogden , I could not have foreseen . |
| 44 | ‘ I clearly got up his nose when I asked him about a report which disputed his status as a big box-office draw , ’ says Barry . |
| 45 | When I asked him about the Galapagos T-shirt he was wearing , he merely snapped , ‘ No , I have n't been . |
| 46 | When I asked him about the college he volunteered only that it was an experimental community of researchers and students — ‘ the kind of imaginative endeavour you will find only in the States . ’ |
| 47 | but when I asked them for a crayon , |
| 48 | But you said you you when I asked you about the clinic on Street you thou you thought had heard of it . |
| 49 | When I said something of the sort , Dr Kepepwe explained that most of the original staff of the hospital were serving with British troops in Operation Total Tartary , in Murmansk , Usbekistan , the front in the Caucasus , and the new revolutionary area opening up round Lake Baikal . |
| 50 | When I rest it on the table it shudders and then sighs . |
| 51 | When I took her to a school for admission they sent us to the Education department . |
| 52 | Not like the covenant which I made when I took them by the hand To bring them out of the land of Egypt — my covenant which they broke Although I was a husband to them , says the Lord . |
| 53 | ‘ When I took it to the beach it went brrmm , brrmm , up and down the sandhills . ’ |
| 54 | I could n't figure out which were and when the girl er , you know , when , when I took it to the counter she she said , ooh this is good value for four ninety nine ! |
| 55 | ‘ Beware the falconer with the clean glove , ’ they say , and certainly I was looking forward to getting my glove dirty — at least metaphorically — with some practical experience when I booked myself on a falconry course on Bodmin Moor in the summer of 1988 . |
| 56 | ‘ And when I make it to the charts , then I 'll have to admit that I will have owed it to the world 's greatest entertainer ever — Elvis the King of Rock . ’ |
| 57 | When I bought her as a young heifer , a friend went on and on about how small she was until I wondered if I was going to have a beast left at all by the time she had finished . |
| 58 | That afternoon the wheelbarrow even stuck when I pulled it off the road for a break . |
| 59 | When I leave them in the hall the lids burst open again . |
| 60 | When I confronted him outside the refectory and insisted that the resident be allowed to finish his meal , he exploded in a torrent of foul language and vowed he would never return . |