Example sentences of "i [vb past] when [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first thing that I noticed when I arrived in the dusty Managua airport , besides the tanks parked in the landing field , was an enormous poster of an unmistakable Daniel Ortega , clad in blue jeans and a cowboy shirt , holding an infant with an earring . |
| 2 | Dury , however , is a theatrical voice to be taken rather more seriously , as I discovered when I met him in his current lodgings , adjacent to the Swan Theatre . |
| 3 | But today the prostate operation is routine , as I discovered when I visited the operating theatre a few days after I had had mine . |
| 4 | Many of you may have noticed that Good Housekeeping is now on sale at the checkout in Sainsbury 's , which has gone down brilliantly with shoppers , as I discovered when I visited my local London branch . |
| 5 | I discovered when I later spoke with Geoffrey that he too had been persuaded to stand by Humphrey Atkins . |
| 6 | I decided when I was 11 and I started doing drama at school , when I came over from New Zealand , that I wanted to be an actress . ’ |
| 7 | I knew when we unwrapped it , it was not for us to meddle with . ’ |
| 8 | I knew when your lesson was and worked out when you 'd have to leave the house , and I 've been skulking around here , waiting for you . |
| 9 | I knew when I first thought of it , he wrote , when I first set it up , that it was to be the final piece . |
| 10 | ‘ I cried because I knew when I walked out on Ramsay Street , it would be a hundred times more difficult to see my friends , ’ she confessed . |
| 11 | I knew when I had played the best game on the rugby field . |
| 12 | ‘ When I was an accountant I knew when I was going to be busy well in advance . |
| 13 | Some of them had come quite a way , from Phobos , even , people I knew when I was still hustling for my white card . |
| 14 | I knew when I was beaten . |
| 15 | If you think of the environment Gerry Conlon was in when he was wrongfully arrested — that world of squats and lodging houses and casual labour — that 's the world I knew when I was younger . |
| 16 | I knew when I got into trouble I might get sent back , because when you 've been to prison once , you can be sent back every time you get into trouble . |
| 17 | I knew when I saw her in the graveyard reading the writing . |
| 18 | I knew when I was ten , or even earlier . |
| 19 | I knew when I woke that it was time for me to return . |
| 20 | When the studios were built , I wanted to record some of the songs I knew when I was young and I wanted to record them the way I wanted to hear them . |
| 21 | Edward knew he was being pampered and , in his letters to Helen about his friendship with Gwili 's sister , he confessed that ‘ in fact it was partly you that I saw when I held her : I hope I shall never forget her ; then I shall feel that it is possible to love another even though I am all and ever yours , little one . |
| 22 | I did n't at the time know where to , but when I had only about two months to go I too was posted , to Scampton near Lincoln , and who was the first person I saw when I booked into the Waaf Guard Room ? |
| 23 | Practically the first thing I saw when I got off the train and walked along those roads again was Hairy Back and his dog , the Great Dane . |
| 24 | The officer I saw when I joined said to me : " Are you keen about the A. F. S. ? " |
| 25 | This hypothesis was roughly confirmed by what I saw when I came to the quayside , or what had been the quayside when the lake existed . |
| 26 | That gave me the same charge as I remembered when I was a little kid and could memorise every record I had , who the publishing company was , how long the song was and what label it was on . |
| 27 | I remembered when my own wife , Maria , had told me this , and how this house had been full of the laughter of little voices , and the noise of running feet . |
| 28 | I have gone much further than I intended when I set out on this report and am already beginning to regret the substantial breach in normal departmental procedures which this has involved . |
| 29 | I wondered when they had known each other and why the parents had never mentioned the affair to me ? |
| 30 | I wondered when they offered Keagan to do it ? |