Example sentences of "when i [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had nothing further to do with Sally but she did n't seem to be bothered when I passed her in the street without speaking . |
| 2 | When I confront him with his omissions and lies he just looks sheepish . |
| 3 | Susie smiled when I thanked her for putting up with me . |
| 4 | When I played it through it came back to me completely , as things do if you have really known them when you are young . |
| 5 | That bit I put in about knowing if we were being followed when I drove you to the station will stop them trying to do just that , will keep them away from here . |
| 6 | I knew that when I sold it to you . ’ |
| 7 | When I ask him for telephone numbers of the people who know him best , he gives me the numbers of Deneuve , Shrimpton and Helvin before Jack Nicholson , Brian Clarke and Julian Schnabel . |
| 8 | At the end of the day I thought it looked very attractive , but whether it will catch the eye of a customer when I display it on the craft stall is another matter . |
| 9 | As I say , I only get 36 off the social and when I get it on a Monday , I usually spend 30 right away on food for the kids . |
| 10 | When I whipped him , when I whipped him into the side just down there . |
| 11 | ‘ I was on my way home from New York with my brother Simon after a scouting mission for models when I spotted her at the airport with her father . |
| 12 | ‘ I mean to go to Italy one day , as my brother has done , ’ she told me , when I discovered her on a stone bench in the garden , reading a book . |
| 13 | My results were received with general disbelief when I announced them at a conference near Oxford . |
| 14 | Well she go Hilda got a baby boy about eighteen month old when I knew her like you know , and er she lived by I think it was I think it was you know and er what happened to her I be I think she had to go in a home or er you see and er baby boy was adopted like , the baby boy that 's about all I know about her that 's about all . |
| 15 | ‘ She looked well enough to me when I saw her on the cake section of the WI stall yesterday morning ! ’ |
| 16 | Later in that passage he wrote : ‘ It was n't until thirty years later when I saw her in another woman [ Elizabeth Taylor ] that I realised I had been searching for her all my life . ’ |
| 17 | On the day of the interviews I noticed that Jenny Ball was smartly dressed and in particular I also saw that she was wearing a wedding ring ; an item of jewellery that she seldom wore when I saw her in school on other days . |
| 18 | I was young and easily impressed , so when I saw her in the West Indies , beautiful and elegantly dressed , I thought I loved her . |
| 19 | ‘ Leith never said anything about agreeing to marry you when I saw her in the — ’ Travis left his own unhappy thoughts to start to exclaim . |
| 20 | Yeah I mean when I saw her round the park she said oh I 'm really enjoying it this |
| 21 | I 'd heard that American Music Club were something wonderful , but when I saw them at the Grand in Clapham recently , I was n't that impressed . |
| 22 | It was strange , the conversation Dad and I had , because when I saw him at home later and over the next few days he behaved as if it had never happened , as if he had n't told me he 'd fallen in love with someone else . |
| 23 | The question in Hunt 's mind , when I saw him at the beginning of the 1976 season , was whether changing teams and style was going to make a substantial difference in his way of life : in his informality , his private life , his sense of his own personal liberty . |
| 24 | When I saw him for the first time , I fell in love with him at once . |
| 25 | ‘ I promised myself I 'd smash his handsome face when I saw him on the prison-ship . |
| 26 | Yet , when I saw him on this occasion , he seemed more than usually calm and quiet , which , given that the most painful of interrupters might arrive at any hour , showed that when , in the very essay I was delivering to him , he had talked about the necessity for the ‘ discipline and training of the emotions ’ , he meant what he said and practised it . |
| 27 | When I saw him in the doorway I thought he 'd come to settle that score . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I gave myself a brisk tub down with a towel — when I saw it in daylight it looked as though it had been run over by a lorry on a muddy building site — and changed every stitch of clothing . |
| 30 | When I saw you with your arms around each other , I thought maybe it needed pointing out . ’ |