Example sentences of "it when i " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
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| 1 | ‘ I meant it when I said thank you . |
| 2 | Irate with frustration through constantly having to pick up my pencils after bending over , I really thought I 'd cracked it when I bought a ‘ posh ’ mechanical pencil , with a clip . |
| 3 | Farmer Tom Savage , from Worcester , told Dogs Today : ‘ I could n't believe it when I saw them . |
| 4 | I 'd been given it when I was seven but I 'd never learnt to play it . |
| 5 | I really thought we 'd blown it when I saw him cracking up . |
| 6 | Never mind , I 'll unpick it when I wash it through for you . ’ |
| 7 | I 'll bring it when I come up . ’ |
| 8 | I wear a personal stereo so I do n't hear their comments , but since I sweat a lot when I 'm running I can understand that they do not like it when I get too close . |
| 9 | Diana , for instance , is quoted as saying : ‘ I just love it when I arrive somewhere and everyone is waiting with their tongues hanging out . ’ |
| 10 | So be it when I shall grow old , |
| 11 | ‘ I noticed it when I left the hotel . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ But I snap out of it when I get up . ’ |
| 13 | I had seen it when I had taken a detour from Arequipa into the Colca , reputedly twice as deep as the Grand Canyon . |
| 14 | I do n't do it when I first go to a place . |
| 15 | It was once the Friends ' Meeting House , and a flight of stone steps led to it when I first knew it . |
| 16 | Murchison the Slinnart bobby was all for killing it and he had a stone raised to despatch it when I said no . |
| 17 | Once or twice I caught the N.C.O. staring at me with an expression of hate and disgust but he never maintained it when I stared back , and would look suddenly out of the window or at the papers in the portfolio he was carrying . |
| 18 | ‘ I have always wanted to do it ever since the first time you took me to see it when I was young . ’ |
| 19 | I already knew the right word for it when I was 11 . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't think I can do it , ’ is how he put it when I phoned him . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'll believe it when I see him , ’ said Michael . |
| 22 | You should not find yourself saying , ‘ I do n't know what I want but I think I 'll recognize it when I see it ’ . |
| 23 | Then he remembered a woman he 'd met once on a train , she was singing hymns to the window , he 'd been embarrassed at first , half her fringe was missing as if someone had taken a bite out of it , only he knew she 'd done it because she caught him staring and laughed and said , ‘ I always cut it when I 'm loaded , ’ and he remembered something about a house , and because there was nothing left to cling to , because it was the only piece of wreckage left afloat , he remembered how to get there too , it was either remember or die . |
| 24 | Peter had set aside this one bottle when I won the Catalan Open in 1989 and said that he would open it when I won my next Tour event . |
| 25 | And then dropping out of it when I was twelve or thirteen , getting sidetracked by hormonal changes and the need to , like , butt heads with people out on the grass for a while … |
| 26 | I managed to get it working , but I 'll have to have some extensive repairs done to it when I get back home . ’ |
| 27 | She was most amusing , and described how much she had been abused by reviewers and how one man wrote to her asking her to explain what on earth her books were all about , and enclosed a stamped and addressed envelope for her reply — ‘ I used it when I was paying a bill ’ . |
| 28 | I invariably choose it when I 'm on the Radio 1 My Top Ten sort of things . |
| 29 | ‘ Better than to prolong it when I was n't particularly comfortable — and I suspect they were n't comfortable with me . ’ |
| 30 | Neil 's mother , Sherie , 28 , said : ‘ I could n't believe it when I saw him . |