Example sentences of "when i [verb] [pron] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was bathing you , and I fetched a clean nappy , and when I unfolded it the letter dropped out , and we read it . ’ |
| 2 | When I tell you the reason I 'm going you 'll wish you 'd let me go . |
| 3 | ‘ That will get stolen , ’ the minister of health exclaims when I show him the picture of the pressure cooker that is meant to be used as a steriliser in the dispensaries . |
| 4 | When I brought him the food he pushed it away and suddenly burst into tears all over again . |
| 5 | They were very pleased when I told them the outcome of my night on the tiles and Otley sat next to me on the sofa with his arm round my shoulders . |
| 6 | But Miss Blagden , whom I met by chance yesterday , is going to Rome and when I told her the absurdity of your request she volunteered to carry your ridiculous weapon saying she had always had a fancy to be a gun-runner and that it would be a tale to tell her friends and astonish them . |
| 7 | That 's life , on Vadinamia , as I said to Mala when I told her the news . |
| 8 | Yeah , but when I took her the toilet she wanted to go toilet |
| 9 | I was just silently congratulating myself on tumbling her secret at last when I realized who the man in the photograph was . |
| 10 | ‘ Thank you , William , ’ Marie says to me when I give her the tea , and I say ‘ Is there anything else , your Highness ? ’ like we 're king and queen or summat . |
| 11 | Mind , when I give 'im the wallet and 'e looked inside it , 'e was a mite more pleasant , even if I could n't see nothing but 'is mince pies and 'is 'ooter . |
| 12 | We have people sales people that are always discounting but er well when I say we the world has . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |