Example sentences of "[conj] when i [vb past] [pron] " 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 And oh , we loved the intimacy of having them so close , close enough that when I rode my bicycle for ‘ Committee ’ through the ‘ vomitarium ’ separating one wedge of audience from the next I was able to steady myself by grasping the leg of a gentleman who had stretched it over the side .
11 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 .
12 Yes , you said that when I saw you at the station , ha ! ha ! ’
13 I think I 'd almost convinced myself that when I saw you I 'd be cured .
14 I overcame this problem quite easily in the end : I just gave her less for supper when she was off my hand , got her weight down , say , half an ounce , and built up her appetite , so that when I had her on my fist she 'd be hungry .
15 I remember that when I had my first Meccano set , Dad made a simple hoist which was clamped to the table , a pulley was fixed to a hook above the mirror and my Teddy Bear used to go on trips up to the ceiling .
16 I know that when I had my children I 'd have loved my mother to be there but she missed out on the pleasure because of hospital policy .
17 I knew that when I sold it to you . ’
18 ‘ 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 .
19 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 .
20 What did I start with there so that when I differentiated it I got X squared .
21 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
22 Okay so what did I have here so that when I differentiated I got X ?
23 I realised that when I anointed them .
24 I asked that when I bought it of course .
25 As it also happens to be the only drinker on the Cherwell until you get to Islip , the murderous conspiracies and dark plots which so excite the Kidlington Kops amount to nothing more than the fact that when I opened my curtains that morning I saw the sun shining in a cloudless blue sky and decided to go for the longest and most pleasant of the river walks open to me .
26 ‘ That makes it much more difficult , you know , than when I thought it was only me , ’ he said .
27 Mind you it does look better than when I saw it last .
28 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 ?
29 I needed your help , Claudia , and when I realised you 'd disappeared I knew you 'd try to leave without seeing me again .
30 And when I said I was he held out a massive paw that gripped my hand as though in a vice .
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