Example sentences of "[be] when i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They were when I left them this morning ’ |
| 2 | ‘ And I 'm sure he would have reciprocated the pleasure , mus , especially if you 'd still been in the same state of undress as you were when I left you . |
| 3 | It is true that primary schools are providing a better educational service ( with the possible exceptions of spelling and mental arithmetic ) than they were when I began teaching in 1948 . |
| 4 | Inevitably I shot many animals to feed myself and my retainers , but the memorable occasions were when I hunted dangerous game or tried to secure a really fine head of a rare or elusive animal , like this mountain nyala . |
| 5 | And an hour or two later I shall leave them feeling considerably older and wiser than they were when I started . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll let you know where I am when I know it . |
| 7 | I had hoped there would be a letter from him waiting at Benedict 's when I returned last night . |
| 8 | no tail oh dear oh dear but you see then of course and I was still not married but you see I , as I say , then I went to Cambridge and that 's when I met my husband and all his family were so kind to me , er he had erm two sisters living in a flat round the backs , you 've heard of round the backs |
| 9 | Oh , I missed it , I knew there was something , that 's when I fell asleep |
| 10 | That 's when I heard the clatter . |
| 11 | ‘ Be yours and Cora-Beth 's when I turn up my toes , ’ he said . |
| 12 | So then , that 's er , that 's when I turn the page , now I add a variety of other lists . |
| 13 | That 's when I woke up to the fact that there was something very wrong with the relationship , and very wrong with my life … ’ |
| 14 | It 's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me . |
| 15 | That 's when I ran . |
| 16 | He makes me laugh cos he often says some , when I , it 's when I 've spoken to you on the phone |
| 17 | That 's when I thought you could make money out of gardening . |
| 18 | ‘ That 's when I thought a little research might be in order . |
| 19 | That 's when I thought of the mud wagon , the light spring coach Mr. Mendez and I had taken to Delgado 's that day . |
| 20 | She said well , tell Grant , she said he can have a reprieve , she said it 's May the eighth and , and she says , she probably heard me say it was Friday and that 's when I thought it was this Friday , so I had to phone erm the receptionist at daddy 's works , so she was going to pass on the message to daddy just to tell him just to work late as usual , Grant , rather than come in at teatime and then go back to work again . |
| 21 | Well-that 's when I made my big mistake . |
| 22 | We did put one more record together with Bob Clearmountain , ‘ Into The Fire ’ , and that 's when I said , ‘ That 's it , I do n't really want to be hands-on any more . ' ’ |
| 23 | then it 's a national account , but in terms of the guy not seeing anybody we went to him to sort out what was going on and she must have come away there from with all the sites and said I should n't be dealing with this , it 's a national account , it 's the national account and that 's when I said you must pass it over to then |
| 24 | It 's when I said , oh I wish occasionally we , you know , cook straight away instead sitting around . |
| 25 | Well that 's when I said to him , I said have you any outside help , and he said well really , no |
| 26 | That 's when I had to put these things onto dea er put death certificates into th their the doctor 's certificate into English , erm they were pretty good , t others were n't so g , er you know , were n't so good . |
| 27 | I think that 's when I had the first nightmare … |
| 28 | And that 's when I had the accident on the . |
| 29 | That 's when I began to have doubts about the company . |
| 30 | And that 's when I began to get suspicious . |