Example sentences of "when i [vb past] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children of both sexes went to Sunday School ( one of my informants when I asked her about this said , " Oh yes , everyone went to Sunday School " ) . |
| 2 | ‘ Yesterday , when I asked you about animal rights , you said you were out of it and clammed up good and proper . |
| 3 | He said to Rain : ‘ She left them behind when I took her to Nice . |
| 4 | As Brian Clough told me when I met him on the top of the Little Elm bus earlier this season — we were both going to check out Little Elm Intaflora 's young Dutch forward , Kylie Van Der Graaf — ‘ Sadly , young man , football is like a football . ’ |
| 5 | These things I gathered from what Dorothy 's husband Leo told me when I met him in the chemist 's shop one day . |
| 6 | Dury , however , is a theatrical voice to be taken rather more seriously , as I discovered when I met him in his current lodgings , adjacent to the Swan Theatre . |
| 7 | That was when I met you for the first time , last week , at the consciousness-raising group that we started at the women 's centre a few weeks ago . |
| 8 | Nothing much else happened , as far as I recall … but then I did n't visit the cottage much , not before that morning when I met you in the garden . |
| 9 | ‘ I told you Alice had changed two years ago , when I saw her in London , ’ he said . |
| 10 | I knew when I saw her in the graveyard reading the writing . |
| 11 | One day when I saw him in the village , he said , ‘ I hear I 've got a son , Ellen , whose name 's Linton ! |
| 12 | I was window-shopping across the road at Tower Records ( good selection , but top price ) when I saw him in the reflection . |
| 13 | I realized what a marvellous actor he was when I saw him in this and only wished that he had n't relied so much on the funny voices and hidden behind the easier way out of doing the characters that he could do so easily — and it was easy for him . |
| 14 | Like that time when I saw you in Kent , you seemed to be all right together . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I could hardly believe my eyes when I saw you in the market . |
| 16 | ‘ Do you remember when I told you about Dad ? ’ |
| 17 | and the new baby , remember when I told you about Andrew my cousin , my favourite cousin they reckoned I 'd fancied him ? |
| 18 | and the new baby , remember when I told you about Andrew my cousin , my favourite cousin they reckoned I 'd fancied him ? |
| 19 | Do you remember when I told you about |
| 20 | do you remember when I told you about that baby on the maternity ward |
| 21 | I recalled de Sade 's heroine , Justine , and reflected that he too would be alive now , if now was when I believed it to be . |
| 22 | ‘ The closest I ever got to any man was when I had him in the sights of the rifle and I never missed . ’ |
| 23 | Now Sunday when I had her about that terrific barking , your father was the first to say , look she stopped it |
| 24 | Is it only two weeks since that bleak morning when I had nothing for a future and everything seemed too late , when I dragged myself about the house , alone and miserable and weighed down by self-pity ? |
| 25 | Those weeks when I kept you from your work — did you mind ? |
| 26 | ‘ Twenty-four years old he was when I found him in the provost 's prison in Paris , and paid his fine to get him for my own , him and that foster-brother of his whom you know well . ’ |
| 27 | I handed it to a former flight engineer of 213 when I visited him in Toronto some years ago . |
| 28 | Once back in the ops room , I laid the boy flat on his back , so far down the mattress that his dropped foot hung over the edge at the bottom , just as I had seen the Australian nurse do when I watched her during her London visit the previous year . |
| 29 | ‘ One of them started crying yesterday , when I hit him with my stick . |
| 30 | I was afraid long ago , when I hit him in the mouth with that heavy glove , that I might kill him one day . |