Example sentences of "[conj] when i [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The committee became so unnerved at the thought that the club premises might be under threat that when I said I knew how to deal with these bounders , but it could only be as chairman , they swallowed it hook , line and sinker . |
| 2 | N well I , I , I had , why I was so positive about it , I had an uncle who had it very badly and as a child I was very aware of his hands , they were quite inhuman looking , they were that shape , and you know everything he did he , he had to that and that 's remained in my mind that when I got it I though I wo n't have the hands like that so I r I w I go , I went to sleep , I still do it , every night , spread my hands , the last thing I think about , spread the hands . |
| 3 | I swear to you that when I kissed you in Ib 's Club it was simply because I could n't resist the temptation . |
| 4 | And when I started to write on the piano I found that when I translated it back to the guitar it was better . |
| 5 | But the doctor said that when I recovered I would have to practise less and go out more often . |
| 6 | ‘ It was rather touching that when I told him who the other members of the cast were — Ian Richardson , Zena Walker and Freddie Jones — he said : ‘ Do they know who it is who 's playing the character ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ She was so hell-bent on them that when I told her I could n't get them anywhere she said ‘ Well , we 'd better make them . ’ |
| 8 | Moistening dry lips , she began , ‘ You 'll remember that when I told you I intended leaving you said I might go immediately ? |
| 9 | Your Grace will therefore be so good as to allow me to ask you most humbly for my discharge … seeing that when I asked you for permission to travel to Vienna three years ago you graciously declared that I had nothing to hope for in Salzburg and would do better to seek my fortune elsewhere . |
| 10 | I did erm , mention , I think on one of them which was the erm Tim , this is the upstairs , I did actually mention that when I saw it to Roger . |
| 11 | Yes , you said that when I saw you at the station , ha ! ha ! ’ |
| 12 | I think I 'd almost convinced myself that when I saw you I 'd be cured . |
| 13 | I knew that when I sold it to you . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Are you saying that when I showed you Milada Pankracova 's letter to Cara , that was the first you knew of any interview ? ’ she asked , still feeling a shade staggered and needing a little more clarification . |
| 15 | Most of the living accommodation at Low Birk Hatt faces north and I always thought that when I moved I would definitely have a south-facing house . |
| 16 | What did I start with there so that when I differentiated it I got X squared . |
| 17 | Brilliant okay now here I started off with something I do n't know what it was but I know that when I differentiated it I finished up with X |
| 18 | Okay so what did I have here so that when I differentiated I got X ? |
| 19 | I realised that when I anointed them . |
| 20 | I asked that when I bought it of course . |
| 21 | ‘ That makes it much more difficult , you know , than when I thought it was only me , ’ he said . |
| 22 | Mind you it does look better than when I saw it last . |
| 23 | so Sure Start rang him up and said how 's your car er Mr , he said it 's no better now than when I fetched it to you , three oil changes since and two months since and they said well what you gon na do about it ? |
| 24 | I needed your help , Claudia , and when I realised you 'd disappeared I knew you 'd try to leave without seeing me again . |
| 25 | And when I said I was he held out a massive paw that gripped my hand as though in a vice . |
| 26 | My dad used to take two sugars , and when I said I was giving up sugar in tea and coffee , he reduced it to one . |
| 27 | ‘ I kept thinking today how lucky I was , you see , how blessedly fortunate , with all I have , all that is so comfortable , all that makes me so — so much happier than I was , and then this evening I went to the Rectory and when I returned I was in my room and I looked out at the darkness and I thought of you and how lonely you must be after all the company and society you have known just recently and I thought — I thought — ’ |
| 28 | I went back to bathe my eyes and when I returned I could not see them . ’ |
| 29 | and when I looked they did n't have it threaded up right at the top at all I had to re-thread the machine . |
| 30 | and when I looked it up it had about six other words to go with it . |