Example sentences of "[adj] when [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , it just look different when you took them off |
| 2 | ‘ When we dragged Cpl Edwards out of his seat the back of his head had been blown off — but I still thought he would be OK when we got him to hospital . |
| 3 | With large numbers this can cause even worse handling and registration problems than for paper , and even , perhaps , extra complications if a disk turns out to be corrupt ( ‘ It was OK when I handed it in . ’ ) |
| 4 | PLAYER : We never really got going — it was getting quite interesting when they stopped it . |
| 5 | It got broken when I dropped everything last night . |
| 6 | ‘ And Mrs McD was a bit staggered when we told her he was in Mull . |
| 7 | The overall effect from the picture was that if you got any closer you would be engulfed in fire ; I was staggered when I saw it . |
| 8 | She was very calm when she rang me from the hospital asking for her mourning clothes . |
| 9 | No , no yo yo i is n't it funny when I thought it is a fault , one of them discarded the right ? |
| 10 | My relationship with Isobel started going wrong when we discovered she could n't have children and started having infertility treatment . |
| 11 | It all went wrong when they discovered something up a gum-tree in Malaysia and called it gutta-percha . |
| 12 | I wrote it on orange paper in blue ink and it all went horribly wrong when I photocopied it so I 've put an agenda on there right . |
| 13 | Seems I was wrong when I said there were just two common ways of arranging fuel and water tanks . |
| 14 | So I was wrong when I thought they were fantastically healthy and a good advert for the Jungle . |
| 15 | But he was wrong when he said it had no effect on him . |
| 16 | I was quite embarrassed when we did it two years ago . ’ |
| 17 | I must have looked embarrassed when she handed it over because they both turned their backs while I slipped my old dress off and slipped the new one on . |
| 18 | Morgan and Georg Siemens did this when they established their banking ventures . |
| 19 | [ The British ] had pressed for some time for a continuation of a combined staff relationship and had only been convinced that we were serious in rejecting this when we moved their combined staff people out of the Pentagon and moved the standing group [ of Nato ] in . |
| 20 | " Or were you expecting this when you took us into the wood ? " |
| 21 | ‘ Was she like this when you found her , miss ? ’ he asked . |
| 22 | Newman himself recounts what transpired : ‘ The scene went something like this when I demanded her presence in my office : |
| 23 | ‘ You were n't like this when I married you . |
| 24 | We could find no cause for this when I regressed him to an earlier period in this life and so I went on to regress him to what appeared to be a previous life . |
| 25 | ‘ It was like this when I bought it . |
| 26 | this was like this when I bought it off you |
| 27 | He acknowledged this when he told me in fluent English that he wanted to do a post-graduate degree in biology in the States . |
| 28 | Yet there can be little doubt that Nizan himself certainly did perceive the party in terms similar to this when he joined its ranks in late 1927 . |
| 29 | Rulers and governments might well be willing when it suited their own purposes to overlook the difficulties which precedence , titles and formal procedures in general so often caused . |
| 30 | Were you afraid when I left you alone with Mason ? ’ |