Example sentences of "when i [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I introduce myself to a class that I am working with for the first time I frequently begin by asking them to sit close by me on the floor and listen with their eyes shut to the sound of a pair of Indian bells struck together . |
| 2 | I had nothing further to do with Sally but she did n't seem to be bothered when I passed her in the street without speaking . |
| 3 | That bit I put in about knowing if we were being followed when I drove you to the station will stop them trying to do just that , will keep them away from here . |
| 4 | At the end of the day I thought it looked very attractive , but whether it will catch the eye of a customer when I display it on the craft stall is another matter . |
| 5 | As I say , I only get 36 off the social and when I get it on a Monday , I usually spend 30 right away on food for the kids . |
| 6 | When I whipped him , when I whipped him into the side just down there . |
| 7 | ‘ I was on my way home from New York with my brother Simon after a scouting mission for models when I spotted her at the airport with her father . |
| 8 | ‘ I mean to go to Italy one day , as my brother has done , ’ she told me , when I discovered her on a stone bench in the garden , reading a book . |
| 9 | My results were received with general disbelief when I announced them at a conference near Oxford . |
| 10 | ‘ She looked well enough to me when I saw her on the cake section of the WI stall yesterday morning ! ’ |
| 11 | I was young and easily impressed , so when I saw her in the West Indies , beautiful and elegantly dressed , I thought I loved her . |
| 12 | ‘ Leith never said anything about agreeing to marry you when I saw her in the — ’ Travis left his own unhappy thoughts to start to exclaim . |
| 13 | Yeah I mean when I saw her round the park she said oh I 'm really enjoying it this |
| 14 | I 'd heard that American Music Club were something wonderful , but when I saw them at the Grand in Clapham recently , I was n't that impressed . |
| 15 | The question in Hunt 's mind , when I saw him at the beginning of the 1976 season , was whether changing teams and style was going to make a substantial difference in his way of life : in his informality , his private life , his sense of his own personal liberty . |
| 16 | When I saw him for the first time , I fell in love with him at once . |
| 17 | ‘ I promised myself I 'd smash his handsome face when I saw him on the prison-ship . |
| 18 | When I saw him in the doorway I thought he 'd come to settle that score . |
| 19 | Yes , you said that when I saw you at the station , ha ! ha ! ’ |
| 20 | Or perhaps I shoved the contents of your safe inside my robe when I saw you at the door . |
| 21 | ‘ When I saw you at the side of the road , it was as if a nightmare had come true . |
| 22 | ‘ When I saw you for the first time , I thought for a moment you were Sybil — come back to plague me . ’ |
| 23 | One of these papers was a recent statement by the county education committee that no change in the status of the grammar school was contemplated : on that basis , I was able to reassure my anxious colleagues , when I met them on the first day of term , that abrupt change was not imminent . |
| 24 | When I met them after the game and asked them what they thought , they said the highlight was listening to the girl behind them telling her mate that if Batty did n't start playing better then she 'd have to start denying him sex ! ! ! |
| 25 | Some some of them were never in t I well I did n't know my aunt when I met her with a hat on . |
| 26 | When I met her at the airport after she flew in to London from Los Angeles recently , I caught my breath when I saw her because she just looked so lovely . |
| 27 | ‘ My name is Lockwood , ’ I said , when I met him at the gate to his house . |
| 28 | But it explained the 100-franc note I 'd seen at Ma Scamp 's and , come to think of it , the wad of francs I 'd spotted in Bill Stubbly 's wallet when I met him in the bank . |
| 29 | I was a student in London but I was at home on this occasion when I met someone in the park . |
| 30 | When I met you on the road to Hay last night , I almost thought you had put a spell on my horse ! |