Example sentences of "when i [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fear that when I finally go in and face it , ready to start , the old revulsion will rise up in me again . |
| 2 | When I finally got through to Taff to enquire about what sort of night he had had , and if there had been many casualties during the barrage , his reply was rather matter of fact . |
| 3 | It was 4.30 a.m. when I finally said my farewell to the French family and their very charming daughter . |
| 4 | When I finally found him he looked for all the world like a clown . |
| 5 | Later , Broderick admits that he was drawing on his own feelings about the death of his actor seven years ago , just as his career was taking off ( ‘ He watched everything I did , he was my big influence , and when I finally started to get work , he never got to see it ’ ) . |
| 6 | Dreadful nightmares , when I finally got off to sleep , of men attacking me — like that man who had to cut women on their arms before he could find them desirable . |
| 7 | When I finally caught up with my sprinting friend , who was standing innocently taking a swig from his water bottle , the needles on all my body dials were twitching into red . |
| 8 | I got bowled over twice and lost sight of Greg completely , but when I finally got back alongside him at the green he was really excited . |
| 9 | The great day came when I finally untied him . |
| 10 | When I finally caught up with him at Crazy Joe 's Plantation Village , he was in a resigned mood . |
| 11 | I despised the other actors for not sticking up for me , and for sniggering at the accent when I finally did it . |
| 12 | Scraping away the yellow clay , I discovered a metal drainage pipe , and the dam thing proved to be eight feet long when I finally wrested it away from its niche . |
| 13 | When I finally accepted that I create my own reality , I was excited but scared . |
| 14 | When I finally stopped growing at the age of 17 I felt relief . |
| 15 | I had always imagined that when I finally lost my virginity , it would be for the same reason I smoked and drank , because it would have seemed unsophisticated not to . |
| 16 | In Spain , about the only times when things got put in this much perspective were when Nirvana were actually playing — Madrid was still below-par , frenzy-wise , but a thrilling experience purely because the audience was so enthused by it all — and when I finally interviewed Dave , Chris and Kurt . |
| 17 | When I finally took off the overtrousers , the fleece trousers I was wearing underneath were completely dry , which is what I would have expected from their three-layer Gore-Tex construction . |
| 18 | Young , chirpy faces to greet me when I finally made it to Raynes Park . |
| 19 | I stayed in hotels to begin with and when I finally moved into a flat , on the first night a rat ran across my chest . |
| 20 | But I 'd never had any problems with my periods , so when I finally decided to see a specialist , I was more curious than anything else . ’ |
| 21 | That I told Oliver I 'd put them down the waste-disposal and the phone went silent , and when I finally said , ‘ Are you still there ? ’ he just answered , ‘ I love you , ’ and hung up . |
| 22 | The shock of finding out , when I finally persuaded a partner to play with me , that I was colour-blind , put paid to my dreams of a misspent youth . |
| 23 | It was five-thirty in the morning , and when I finally got to sleep I was hating those birds . |
| 24 | When I finally decided I could n't dawdle over my coffee any longer , a decision arrived at long before by the hard-eyed blonde in charge of the cash register , I climbed back in the heap and headed home . |
| 25 | ‘ Come , petite , ’ he said , clicking his fingers at one of the serveuses , ‘ when I finally succeed in getting the bill out of someone , I 'll take you to Père Lachaise . ’ |
| 26 | When I finally received permission to travel south , we went to the two holiest cities of Shia Islam , Kerbala and Najaf. and found that the buildings there , gorgeous in their gliding and intricate mosaics , had been terribly damaged by the loyalist troops of the Iraqi army when they finally defeated the Shiite uprising in March 1991 . |
| 27 | and then you 'll see it again when I finally pay you . |
| 28 | When I finally moved at the end of September , it was an enormous step in my life . |
| 29 | When I finally got up onto the wing it was dark . |
| 30 | When I finally saw the doctor and I said , ‘ Can I have something ? ’ he said , ‘ What for ? ’ |