Example sentences of "when i [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I 'm just echoing the whole country when I say what a venture to make such a track . |
| 32 | We have people sales people that are always discounting but er well when I say we the world has . |
| 33 | But I could make no sort of impression upon him … when I visited him a second time , the fear of death was gone , and with it all solicitude about religion . ’ |
| 34 | When I called you a pompous , self-opinionated bully I meant every word ! |
| 35 | My eyes were shut most of the time now as I blundered round the park and when I opened them a red mist swirled . |
| 36 | But she added : ‘ The people at work think I 'm insane and when I showed them the video of the bungee jump it just confirmed their opinion that I 'm a lunatic . ’ |
| 37 | Even the Arabs in the Ministry of Health office in the hospital had n't really been briefed , and the poor man who was given the job of meeting our needs nearly had a heart attack when I showed him a copy of the list I had sent out to his head office weeks ago . |
| 38 | And when I showed him a list of names I had collected ( why , I do not know , I had some notion of an appeal or inquiry ) , he read : ‘ Lynch , Connally , Egan , Kelly … etc. ’ and then he looked at me and added , ‘ I was looking at the lists of those who died in the recent great victories of general Gough at Aliwal and Sobraon in India . |
| 39 | If my deception worked , she 'd still think she was attached to the creance and fly straight to me as usual when I showed her the chick . |
| 40 | When I found her the other side of my desk I told her in no uncertain terms I was n't having anything to do with it . |
| 41 | This made for a softer , more innocent and ingenuous ‘ Dora ’ , but perhaps what was needed was a slightly sharper , more bristly Dora with a hidden vulnerability , which came more naturally when I gave her a North London accent … |
| 42 | When I gave them a grenade they had n't found , I got another kick . |
| 43 | and when I gave them a questionnaire saying how would you label someone as gay they said , we never make those kind of assumptions . |
| 44 | He 's trying to make out that I gave it to him when I gave him a spoonful of that … stuff … |
| 45 | The reason I called James Hunt ‘ Master James ’ , a sobriquet which his sponsors , Texaco , took up and plastered ( without payment ! ) on billboards all over the country , was that he appeared to be exactly that , -a rather well-brought-up young man , properly educated , well-mannered ( when I gave him the name , though not in some of his more flamboyant later incarnations ! ) and thoroughly at home in the establishment circles in which he moved . |
| 46 | And then when I gave you the minimum premium er it was like right okay well that 's , that 's the easy way out is n't it , twenty quid a month , okay I might do something for twenty quid because I was n't committed and that 's what exploration of needs is all about and it 's , it 's so easy for me to sit and say yeah that 's what you need to do but putting myself in your shoes , you know , a few years ago |