Example sentences of "when i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look at her all sweet and innocent , and when I turn away she 'll nick a chip I can see you sit down ! |
| 2 | In that trance-like state we drift apart , still staring , but when I turn aside it 's as if we snapped a silken cord . |
| 3 | I believe I hurt them when I ran away , and with my way of life . |
| 4 | When I ran away I was going to the beach , but as I got near it I recognized someone I was avoiding . |
| 5 | But when I ran away from the orphanage , I was so nearly trapped again . |
| 6 | ‘ You eat like a sparrow , ’ he said , when I declined more than nine oysters . |
| 7 | I was delighted to be informed that I was one of the prize winners , but my delight turned to disappointment when I realised just what accepting the prize would involve . |
| 8 | When I back there I am sure I will have changed to a certain extent and I hope it will have helped to develop my managerial skills . ’ |
| 9 | As for Italy , when I lived there 20 years ago it was common knowledge that many small businesses kept two sets of books : one for the authorities , the other for real . |
| 10 | When I lived there , the Soviet Union was labouring in its final throes and the parades were desperate assertions rather than celebrations . |
| 11 | I hated the place when I lived there and yet today I had the odd sort of feeling that the house was just waiting for me to go and live in it again . ’ |
| 12 | Oh , all the important people were Quaker families when I lived there you see ? |
| 13 | When I sit here with the laibon and his family I feel envious of their flimsy values . |
| 14 | But when I sit here , wide awake , with my eyes open or even with my eyes closed , then … " |
| 15 | And when I sit here it means two things : first , that we all stop playing a part at that moment and second , that I 'd like you all to come over and sit down to discuss what we 've been doing . " |
| 16 | ‘ This was a vacant lot when I drove past it on my way to headquarters earlier this evening . ’ |
| 17 | Later , when I ask again , he is silent and I can feel him relent . |
| 18 | Then I remember getting the Ramones album when I 'd just turned sixteen . |
| 19 | His head , when I 'd finally looked at him , was turned away from me towards his companions , as was Daffodil 's also . |
| 20 | By some miracle , the 2CV had n't been towed away when I 'd finally dragged Ash out ; we 'd made it to the M1 , picked up a hitcher and — rather beyond the call of duty , I 'd have said — dropped him where he was going , in Coventry . |
| 21 | I met him at a dance held in the Airmen 's Mess ( so romantic ! ) , when I 'd only been at Binbrook three weeks . |
| 22 | She wrote to her daughter , Flavia : ‘ When I get madly boyish No 2 is in charge , and then , after a bit , the situation is reversed . ’ |
| 23 | no , I said to her , I said , do n't you tell me you 're gon na come on a Sunday morning and when I get here , you 're not up , I says cos I wo n't be very happy about it ! |
| 24 | When I get away . |
| 25 | But when I get there I ca n't find no way out . |
| 26 | And what do I find when I get there ? |
| 27 | When I get there — the whole place is going up and the farmer 's in his pyjamas trying to save the rick . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'as to save up for the fare , and when I get there it 's nearly time to come back , ’ Ella said . |
| 29 | When I get there , there is no one to be seen . |
| 30 | Lucker is in bad shape when I get there . |