Example sentences of "when [pers pn] saw i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes a row of houses and of course when I saw I looked out the door and there was this plane swooping down like that and it seemed so low because they were aiming an and the bomb fell in the cattle market and , and I threw myself on to the stone floor , you see , and er and presently one of the ambulance men came round to my office door and he said , are you alright ? |
| 2 | ‘ Ye looked startled when ye saw me , ’ the man said . |
| 3 | ‘ So I watched you for a while , and when you saw me watching , and you looked nervous , as though you thought me a criminal , about to steal all the stock , it amused me to tease you , try and discover why Donal thought you special . |
| 4 | How did you feel when you saw me with my beautiful Oriental mistress ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ When you saw me with her today , I had my arm around her because she was crying . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm not sure what you mean , ’ she stated then , ‘ but you were most definitely hostile to me when you saw me the next day , and that was still before you knew I was a journalist . ’ |
| 7 | Well , it 's a lot better than when you saw me last time ! |
| 8 | Mrs Tiggy-winkle put her grey curls round the door to see what he wanted and tittered when she saw me captive again . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , Pip ? ’ said Miss Havisham to me when she saw me . |
| 10 | When she saw me , she screamed and jumped back in fear , perhaps thinking I was an insect . |
| 11 | She stopped when she saw me , wound the window down . |
| 12 | My mother fainted when she saw me . |
| 13 | When she saw me , she smiled and put a finger to her lips , motioning silence . |
| 14 | When she saw me , she gave me a haughty stare and carried on meowing . |
| 15 | When they saw me the laughter stopped . |
| 16 | ‘ Word had got round that I was wearing red , but I think the guests were relieved when they saw me , and realised my dress was n't too outrageous , ’ says Alison . |
| 17 | Some of the men , when they saw me looking at them , smiled shyly , and as if automatically scratched their swollen codpieces . |
| 18 | I heaped much obscene verbal abuse on various owners to the extent that several begin to leash in their ugly mutts when they saw me coming . |
| 19 | When they saw me winning , the clubhouse went crazy with people cheering and whooping . |
| 20 | ‘ I thought my family and colleagues would faint when they saw me but they loved the new me instantly , ’ she said . |
| 21 | They dropped their voices to a whisper when they saw me but I 'd seen them taking nips from a bottle of gin . |
| 22 | I can still see the looks of astonishment on his friends ’ faces when they saw me , a white man , drinking out of the same glass . ’ |
| 23 | Both babies would smile stickily when they saw me over the edge of the cot , which was gratifying in a way , but I knew it was only because they were programmed that way , like public relations men . |
| 24 | I 'm frank and candid by nature and so perhaps not surprisingly my career was blocked , former friends learned to cross the street when they saw me coming and I quickly became a non-person ; a communist speciality . |
| 25 | But when they saw me walking out of the sea , they welcomed me warmly with cries of astonishment and delight . |
| 26 | People had gone up to a house and been knocking on the door waiting for someone to come because the light had come on and they thought there must be somebody in because they switched the light on when they saw me come up the drive , and these are visitors . |
| 27 | They began to scream when they saw me , and their mother fainted . |
| 28 | Some of the people ran away when they saw me , but the others shouted and threw stones at me . |
| 29 | Their faces were filled with horror and fear when they saw me . |
| 30 | My family were very worried when they saw me . |