Example sentences of "when i [verb] [pron] a " in BNC.

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1 The sense of disbelief grew when I realised what a truly wonderful prize I 'd won .
2 I thought London was a wonderful place but I was disappointed when I saw what a small , tumbledown house my brother and his wife lived in .
3 But once , to test this , when I offered him a smoky bacon crisp and said , as he crunched greedily into it , ‘ I did n't know you liked smoky bacon , ’ he sprinted into the bathroom and washed out his mouth with soap , screaming from his frothing lips that he would burn in hell . )
4 He leaves he leaves all I thought Kath would have phoned me because I wrote her a letter and normally when I write her a letter she sort of , phones about the next day but she
5 when I visit him a second time he did n't turn up at all
6 Once , when I told her a lie about what I was doing , in order to evade hostile questioning , she said , severely , ‘ You 're growing too like your father . ’
7 For those who are wondering why I have this set-up , the three were introduced at a small size when I thought them a male and two females ; and I am unwilling to upset a settled pair by unnecessarily removing the decor and setting two with a net !
8 When I asked him a question he 'd say , ‘ The answer to that is — in fact the several answers to that are …
9 Personally , when I counted myself a Christian , I had no interest in finding female figures or ‘ feminine ’ motifs within the religion .
10 It was about five inches long when I bought it a month ago , and now it is approaching 10 inches .
11 And your function is designed as , when I give you a number , you give me the nearest integer , which is just above it .
12 come up when I give you a call right ?
13 Five minutes ago you were ranting about how you hate your work and yet , when I offer you a perfectly equitable way out of your situation , you hesitate . ’
14 I 'm just echoing the whole country when I say what a venture to make such a track .
15 But I could make no sort of impression upon him … when I visited him a second time , the fear of death was gone , and with it all solicitude about religion . ’
16 When I called you a pompous , self-opinionated bully I meant every word !
17 My eyes were shut most of the time now as I blundered round the park and when I opened them a red mist swirled .
18 Even the Arabs in the Ministry of Health office in the hospital had n't really been briefed , and the poor man who was given the job of meeting our needs nearly had a heart attack when I showed him a copy of the list I had sent out to his head office weeks ago .
19 And when I showed him a list of names I had collected ( why , I do not know , I had some notion of an appeal or inquiry ) , he read : ‘ Lynch , Connally , Egan , Kelly … etc. ’ and then he looked at me and added , ‘ I was looking at the lists of those who died in the recent great victories of general Gough at Aliwal and Sobraon in India .
20 This made for a softer , more innocent and ingenuous ‘ Dora ’ , but perhaps what was needed was a slightly sharper , more bristly Dora with a hidden vulnerability , which came more naturally when I gave her a North London accent …
21 When I gave them a grenade they had n't found , I got another kick .
22 and when I gave them a questionnaire saying how would you label someone as gay they said , we never make those kind of assumptions .
23 He 's trying to make out that I gave it to him when I gave him a spoonful of that … stuff …
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