Example sentences of "when [pron] see [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She looked well enough to me when I saw her on the cake section of the WI stall yesterday morning ! ’ |
| 2 | I was young and easily impressed , so when I saw her in the West Indies , beautiful and elegantly dressed , I thought I loved her . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | Yeah I mean when I saw her round the park she said oh I 'm really enjoying it this |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When I saw him for the first time , I fell in love with him at once . |
| 8 | ‘ I promised myself I 'd smash his handsome face when I saw him on the prison-ship . |
| 9 | When I saw him in the doorway I thought he 'd come to settle that score . |
| 10 | Yes , you said that when I saw you at the station , ha ! ha ! ’ |
| 11 | Or perhaps I shoved the contents of your safe inside my robe when I saw you at the door . |
| 12 | ‘ When I saw you at the side of the road , it was as if a nightmare had come true . |
| 13 | ‘ When I saw you for the first time , I thought for a moment you were Sybil — come back to plague me . ’ |
| 14 | When I see myself in the mirror I realise why ; I am very unattractive . |
| 15 | She 's a big woman who 's always in a green housecoat when I see her in the evenings after the pub when , as often happens , her son and I end up at her house . |
| 16 | When I see them in the church I always talk to them and I said ‘ Look have you got bottles ? ’ and sometimes they 'll say yes and sometimes they 'll say no . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm only happy when I see you in the theatre , ’ she said . |
| 18 | ‘ Was he always alone when you saw him at the house ? ’ |
| 19 | Erm what did you think when you saw it in the exam ? |
| 20 | An old cathedral had a scale when you saw it from the mountain , or the plain , the silhouette . |
| 21 | Jekub can be a bit scary when you see him for the first time . ’ |
| 22 | yes oh yes , could do that , I 've let him some out though when you see him at the back |
| 23 | ‘ It looks kind of more graceful when you see it from the ground . ’ |
| 24 | Catchy slogans and jingles Words and phrases that stick in your mind may well prompt you to buy a product when you see it in the supermarket . |
| 25 | Then , for the main course , she chose the steak-and-kidney pie , dripping gravy down her horrible blouse ( it 's the sort of blouse that when you see it in the shop you wonder how the shopkeeper intends to dispose of it because no one in their right mind would ever dream of swapping cash for it ) . |
| 26 | Everybody was impressed , it was a glorious day like this you know so the Clyde looks so beautiful when you see it in the , in , in a , in weather like this you know . |
| 27 | Nora called when she saw him on the road just ahead of her . |
| 28 | Joanna Grenside is described as beautiful — but when she sees herself in the mirror , she wo n't see that . |
| 29 | PC Cotton , 55 , a London river policeman for 19 years , said : ‘ When we saw her in the water she looked like a doll . |
| 30 | Writing of the work of Chardin , whose most profoundly moving paintings are revelations of how trivial , homely , everyday scenes and objects are transformed for us when we see them through the eyes of a great painter , Proust says , " Chardin has taught us that a pear is as living as a woman , a kitchen crock as beautiful as an emerald . " |