Example sentences of "when i [vb past] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At first I could not believe it , but when I saw it hanging on the wall of this house , I was flabbergasted , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Mind you it does look better than when I saw it last . |
| 3 | well that 's I thought when I saw it coming out I thought oh goodness this is gon na be ten P a week , that 's the same for everybody , very good |
| 4 | I remember the shock-horror and accusations of non-femininity that my first one provoked when I wore it to push the pram up Edinburgh 's steep streets in 1967 . |
| 5 | Now I protested that it was n't properly decorated yet and that I 'd rather he came when I had it looking its best . |
| 6 | Yeah my hair was that long when I had it cut . |
| 7 | ‘ I was ten years younger when I had it made . |
| 8 | And when I had it customized , I could boast I was wearing something that was made-to-measure — twice . |
| 9 | I kept the boost up as long as I could ; then , when I felt it start to go , relaxed , and went back to merely running fast for a while . |
| 10 | Mind you when I said it 's got ta come down it might be five years before it comes down , but you 've got ta think of your outlay first . |
| 11 | With nothing else to read , it seemed to have the edge on the income tax manuals ( though non-believers would say only just ) , so you can imagine how bad I felt when I opened it to find most of the pages had been razored to provide a nest for a small brown envelope . |
| 12 | Well erm eight hundred but when I did it wrote it into normal terms like six point sixty four with one two three four noughts |
| 13 | I do n't think I really expected to see it , but when I did it amused me to follow you , and when you stopped in Wexford it was idle curiosity that prompted my behaviour , nothing else . ’ |