Example sentences of "when i [vb past] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These things I gathered from what Dorothy 's husband Leo told me when I met him in the chemist 's shop one day . |
| 2 | Nothing much else happened , as far as I recall … but then I did n't visit the cottage much , not before that morning when I met you in the garden . |
| 3 | I knew when I saw her in the graveyard reading the writing . |
| 4 | One day when I saw him in the village , he said , ‘ I hear I 've got a son , Ellen , whose name 's Linton ! |
| 5 | I was window-shopping across the road at Tower Records ( good selection , but top price ) when I saw him in the reflection . |
| 6 | ‘ I could hardly believe my eyes when I saw you in the market . |
| 7 | ‘ The closest I ever got to any man was when I had him in the sights of the rifle and I never missed . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Twenty-four years old he was when I found him in the provost 's prison in Paris , and paid his fine to get him for my own , him and that foster-brother of his whom you know well . ’ |
| 9 | I was afraid long ago , when I hit him in the mouth with that heavy glove , that I might kill him one day . |