Example sentences of "[noun] when i [verb] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got on the vehicle but the driver had not long been in fourth gear when I came to my senses . |
| 2 | Dromore jockey John Reid who is having his best ever season was in a suitably bullish mood when I spoke to him about the remainder of the 1993 Flat racing year which has seen him head inexorably towards 100 winners for the first time in his career . |
| 3 | ‘ I told you about the Carnival when I replied to your last letter . |
| 4 | I was only a little girl when I went to my first funeral . |
| 5 | And now I 've given way to my emotions when I swore to my father I never would . |
| 6 | Yeah , that 's probably why you nicked off with it , cos it , it was clipped on to my Walk , er the Walkman when I came to your house . |
| 7 | ( I never cease to marvel at the continued confusion in the public mind between nuclear power and weapons : too many people stare at me as if I were some unnaturally hybrid creature when I mention to them that I am both a member of CND and a strident advocate of nuclear power stations to produce electricity . |
| 8 | Now it seemed fortunate that I had n't ; just as it seemed , though still obscurely , fortunate that I had n't lost my head in other ways when I wrote to her . |
| 9 | The member of staff when I spoke to him about it afterwards — I did not call him in to speak to him about it immediately because I did not think it was either my place or my duty — I told him that she was very concerned about that being said to her son and quite frankly so was I , and really was that the sort of thing to say and he agreed it was n't the thing to say but he said ‘ I was so angry at the time . |
| 10 | It was the worst day 's work of my life when I succumbed to your charms . |
| 11 | I got the same overpowering sense of mortality when I went to my old school reunion last week . |
| 12 | She did have an explanation when I spoke to her , and at that point we were unaware of the prints ourselves . |
| 13 | That confidence was echoed by Peter Scudamore when I spoke to him at Towcester yesterday . |
| 14 | Incidentally , on the question of the ‘ let ’ , despite the swift , unequivocal opposition voiced by Stefan Edberg , John McEnroe , Jim Courier , Steffi Graf and many more , the move has its influential supporters , including Ivan Lendl , Arthur Ashe , every umpire and Wimbledon referee Alan Mills when I spoke to them in Florida . |
| 15 | Thank you for giving me brief details of the grounds maintenance agreed for Scorton Playing Field when I spoke to you on the phone recently . |
| 16 | Of course it 's not actually coffin-shaped , but that 's how Tony Hicks of the Hollies , who used an original Phantom XII on a number of the band 's hits ( including Look Through Any Window and I Ca n't Let Go ) referred to the guitar when I spoke to him about his original guitar . |
| 17 | No good running when I talk to you . |