Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb past] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was not to attend St Stephen 's until years later , when I lived in the parish ; but meanwhile I had attended Tenebrae more than once , and had indeed found it beautiful and moving , with the abrupt strepitacula somehow reinforcing the effect . |
| 2 | Teaching young children the right from wrong , and why the police are there and , accepting them as friends , like we did when I lived in the village . |
| 3 | When I played in the Wimbledon final , I knew that I had certain kinds of weaknesses . |
| 4 | When I intervened in the right hon. Gentleman 's speech he replied in such confusion that I thought it best to give him time to reflect , and to ask my question again later . |
| 5 | Made them ink-exercise it for the Thursday and when I got in the results I was tearing my hair . |
| 6 | When I got in the car and put the key in the ignition , they probably said : ‘ Right , gotcha ! ’ |
| 7 | When I got in the pool it was very cold , going round the edge . |
| 8 | When I woke in the morning , we were drawing into the bank . |
| 9 | For example , it would make me very happy if I could see you every night across my dinner table ; if when I woke in the morning , I would hear you wish me ‘ Bonjour , chéri ! ’ in that so charming accent of yours . |
| 10 | I fell into an unhappy sleep , but when I woke in the morning , the family had gone . |
| 11 | erm In fact a simple formulation of this problem occurs in the opening paragraphs of À la Recherche , erm when the narrator writes this : ‘ When I woke in the middle of the night , I could not tell where I was , just as I did not know at first who I was . |
| 12 | I must admit when I when I came in the door there the first thing I noticed was the peat smell . |
| 13 | Well I 'll be quite honest with you , when I came in the other day you had a couple and I 'm amazed that you 've still got them . |
| 14 | when I came in the other day , I might have a look now actually get some Chewitts for the kids go on looking something for myself |
| 15 | That 's the way I turned when I went in the jail . |
| 16 | ‘ It was just the way she acted when I went in the cell . |
| 17 | No , not what I 'd actually done , cos he was very frightened when I went in the hospital . |
| 18 | The other buses were either spread out in their running time or cut down to form the evening frequency which was less than what it was during the peak time and so I , you know , I 'd , I 'd left it at then , when I went in the forces then , he carried on . |
| 19 | Anyway when I went in the phone was on the hook , and I said who was on the phone ? |
| 20 | but when I went in the other week , they all sit in a circle like that , then there 's a space and the teacher stands there and she was telling a story about the independent princess who does n't fall in love with the prince in the end , it was a quite funny story |
| 21 | Yeah when I went in the ladies loo there was one woman in there and they did look nice |
| 22 | But when I looked in the ZZAP ! |
| 23 | Although I was still ‘ tiny ’ ( a word used by one of them at the time ) by any normal standards , when I looked in the mirror , I saw someone who appeared to me to be ‘ gross ’ — a favourite word with anorexics , as Minuchin shows . |
| 24 | When I looked in the mirror and told myself , first , ‘ that ca n't be me ’ , and later , ‘ that wo n't be me ’ , what I was seeing was a woman . |
| 25 | If only that was what I felt when I looked in the mirror , instead of anxiety over these little springs of steel . |
| 26 | No , it 's alright , I was looking in here , because I mean , it , I er , you know , I saw in the er , when I looked in the manual it said it did n't pay out on H I V , so it . |
| 27 | And er she says , sh she said you came round the corner too quick , you were n't there when I looked in the mirror ! |
| 28 | When I started in the shop I was into digging out a bit more detail about it , finding out the kind of Arthur English-style kipper ties my granddad used to wear and the cars that were around then . |
| 29 | Many years ago when I started in the profession , it was standard practice for auditors to mark clients ' records with a vouching mark or audit stamp . |
| 30 | When I started in the Preliminary Training School two and a half years ago my aunt had passed Little Ben on to me and had my name engraved beneath hers and grandfather 's on the back . |