Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , getting back to my sister , she seemed to expect me to side with her when she 'd been just the opposite with me when I 'd wanted to paint , and I 'm afraid harsh words were spoken all round . |
| 2 | The strange and difficult was becoming second nature in the way that it had when I 'd learned to fly . |
| 3 | I made beans , when I 'd finished sorting out this one I . |
| 4 | ‘ When I 'd finished writing the book I had lunch with a publisher ; she walked in with this crestfallen expression on her face , saying , ‘ I expected somebody taller , blonder , and just more … |
| 5 | Oh , indeed so , erm our domestic life is extraordinarily complicated but when , after my maternity leave expired and when I 'd finished having time off and breast feeding the baby , he in fact looked after her for a term in Cambridge and I came back to Sussex and taught during the week and went back to my daughter and husband at weekends , and now he 's actually taking leave in his turn , if you like , so that he can be the back-up here while I teach and do my work this year . |
| 6 | It did n't exactly lend weight to my decision to realize , when I 'd finished making it , that I was standing outside a second-hand jeweller 's looking at a selection of gold rings . |
| 7 | Er anyway as I say er I realized when I 'd started talking er that I was digging a bigger and bigger hole for myself so I er I climbed out of it and and made an exit . |
| 8 | And I remembered our last day together when I 'd promised to bring you to the Peacock theatre and robbed you of your heart 's desire by forcing you into my bed instead . |
| 9 | Days later , when I had decided to find myself a less cushy job , someone telephoned me and said , –You are ruining my life . ’ |
| 10 | When I had stopped kicking against the pricks I began to ask myself how much longer I could have gone on without somebody noticing the change in my figure . |
| 11 | When I had started to examine pensions , many in the industry were opposed to any change in SERPS and almost everyone was opposed to personal pensions . |
| 12 | He watched me , smiling but sharp , and for some reason — for no reason — I was reminded of a time at school when I had tried to make one friend betray another , and failed . |
| 13 | When I had finished signing , I went to the bar . |
| 14 | ‘ But it 's a fine motorway car , ’ counselled an older , and sometimes wiser , colleague when I had finished bemoaning my apparent misfortune at having the Fiesta waiting at Edinburgh Airport . |
| 15 | That was the psychological moment : but she also remembered another , a turning-point in physical ageing , ‘ when I began to hate to look at myself in the glass . ’ |
| 16 | am not when I came to die seeing as I have not lived . |
| 17 | well when I went to get pulled him inside |
| 18 | But another sister followed me at the Dowsons when I left to get married . |
| 19 | Er , it 's just I feel that I 've worked all my days and did without and er er had put savings away and things like that so that when I stopped working to have children I would have money , but if you were means tested , and the money is for the children as well , anyway and the people who , you know , I do n't mean that all people , a lot of people who are supposedly not having money , and getting all these things , they sell them and things like that . |
| 20 | I planned an overnight stay at the Drumrunie Hotel , marked on the map and ten miles along the road , but when I tried to telephone to book a room , the operator told me that the hotel had recently been burnt down . |
| 21 | But when I tried to avoid giving them he ordered me to tell him what was up . |
| 22 | When I did manage to follow it , I was stunned by the fact that it could gain such a good speed although it was flying without putting any apparent effort into beating its wings . |
| 23 | When I did decide to go to Chislehurst , the streets were quiet and uninhabited after South London , as if the area had been evacuated . |
| 24 | When I did emerge to eat , he remarked gloomily that he 'd managed to stick them to the bottom of the pan . |
| 25 | When I did come to know Koestler I found him electrifying but not at all intimidating . |
| 26 | When you had to keep pestering them to do it . |
| 27 | When you had got to go to the emery wheel , you 'd got ta hold the things and emery wheel them and yourself . |
| 28 | Would you see them much when you 'd gone to work ? |
| 29 | And then , just when she felt compelled to look once more into the strong , handsome face , the moment was gone and the Jaguar purred into life and she heard the angry rev of the engine as he thrust the car into gear and roared away . |
| 30 | And tea , tea , tea with everything , just when she had begun to appreciate the sophistication of coffee . |