Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | my legs , I suddenly realized when I was changing at the swimming pool , and thought oh sod it , who 's gon na notice , I mean , at half past seven , I really ca n't get that excited about it . |
| 2 | That 's what I just said when he went up there you see . |
| 3 | Saying Grace is not always a prelude to conventional manners in Free Kirk households as I once found when asked to offer the Grace in a cottage in Point , Lewis , in which the great aunt of a friend lived . |
| 4 | I enjoy going out to buy something , having saved up for it , far more than I ever did when my favourite phrase was ‘ charge it , please ’ . |
| 5 | Here in America I perform a lot in Las Vegas and Atlantic City and I probably make more money today than I ever did when I was selling a lot of records as a teenage idol . |
| 6 | I hated rugby but I always played when they wanted me to because I was really fast . |
| 7 | I nearly died when three weeks later , |
| 8 | Judi , who was in the US interviewing Hollywood stars , said : ‘ I nearly died when this lady kept saying I was getting married . ’ |
| 9 | I nearly died when I saw them . |
| 10 | Shortly after this I nearly suffocated when the pipe of my breathing apparatus came adrift . |
| 11 | I nearly said , I nearly said when you were er |
| 12 | I nearly said when you wanted er , when he were on about when I were saying your lass is big enough cos she is well built int she ? |
| 13 | I nearly choked when she came up afterwards . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I nearly fainted when I saw him , ’ said his mother Mandy , 27 . |
| 15 | He come up the hospital , I was up in intensive care unit and me dad came round about half past ten at night and in he walked , he came straight down from Filey to see him , cos he used to think a lot of dad you see and dad did him years ago , he used to say he was more of a son than me own but then he brought her to the funeral , they would n't speak to me , would n't entertain me at all , I nearly fainted when I saw little one , she 's tall and thin |
| 16 | But in the course of developing our case we have found no grounds upon which I could have validly chosen my present ends except that they are the ones to which I spontaneously tended when most aware ; on what grounds then could I persist in preferring these ends to a further advance in awareness which would undermine them ? |
| 17 | I really cheered when Chamberlain came home from Munich with ‘ that bit of paper . ’ |
| 18 | Then , as I often did when I was alone at sea , I began to recite Shakespeare . |
| 19 | When I listened though , as I often did when my curiosity over-ran my actions , he was different from the rest . |
| 20 | The House will expect me to apologise again for the remarks that I injudiciously made when I was trying to illustrate a simple point — that , with the private sector providing more rail services in future , I hope that a range of choice will be available to the travelling public in terms of price and time of day , rather like that provided by the airlines and the long-distance coach market . |
| 21 | ‘ I even stopped when the traffic lights went red . |
| 22 | I almost fainted when I read your letter , confronted by that terrible mistake I had made . |
| 23 | I actually felt when we walked out on that stage that we might be able to meet the challenge . |
| 24 | I never run when I know I could crawl . ’ |
| 25 | Already in his first novel , Boccalone ( 1979 ) , widely recognized as the best to come out of the youth movement of the late 1970s , Palandri had shown an extraordinary ability to create sufficient space for his characters , ‘ enrico ’ and ‘ anna ’ and their friends , to speak for themselves without being overwhelmed by the surrounding clutter or by the pretensions of ‘ literature ’ , pretensions from which the narrator keeps his distance : ‘ I do n't want to make big speeches , I never did when I was with anna and I was better off ; I just want to recount incidents and let the rest come out of that , if there actually is anything ’ ( Palandri 1979 : 124 ) . |
| 26 | His furniture was seized by the bailiffs and he was reduced to a demeaning game of hide and seek with process servers which eventually ended when they caught up with him in Belfast . |
| 27 | After reaching its early peak the Sussex iron industry went into a very long decline , which only finished when the Ashburnham forge closed in 1810 , at the height of the Napoleonic wars . |
| 28 | Throughout 1990 rumours spread that a less-busy Shabba had signed for a major , which finally happened when CBS picked him up in America at the end of last year , and worldwide earlier this year . |
| 29 | All they could do was plead for commonsense or , in desperation , threaten a stern lecture from Anna Essinger , a device which usually succeeded when all else had failed . |
| 30 | Most of all the fate of Poland illustrated the necessity of strong monarchy and the fatal disunity which usually followed when it was lacking . |