Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb past] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When everyone had their drink Kate sat beside her mother . |
| 2 | When I ran my spear in for the kill . ’ |
| 3 | Always before when I ran my head , and my country , and my son 's inheritance into danger , and stood to it in arms , always I had you by my side , heart in heart with me . |
| 4 | ‘ I did n't see any sign of him when I passed his house , ’ said Ianthe . |
| 5 | When I married my wife Mary , however , I planned to stay at home for a while . |
| 6 | ‘ When I married my husband , I knew the legends , the stories , the whispers . ’ |
| 7 | But a strong feeling persisted , when I swung my feet off the ground and lay back , that something was trying to slip between me and reality . |
| 8 | So when I parked my car I said to them I forgot how much it was in there , twenty pounds in the hotel as you 're not a guest they give them in reception . |
| 9 | ‘ When I injured my shoulder ( she was forced to return home from the Federation Cup and had to miss a couple of tournaments ) I could n't do anything . |
| 10 | When I processed my attitudes towards money , the reasons became quite obvious . |
| 11 | ‘ Eleven years later it was like a dream come true when I played my first game for the club and he was still in goal . |
| 12 | ‘ when I played my first match against Portugal I was lucky because it was a bit of a doddle . |
| 13 | When I fought my way up the brae and saw all the council houses I almost turned back dismissing the possibility of there being any evidence of older architecture . |
| 14 | My career was shaped , I suppose , when I sold my first sweater to a smart shop in Stratford at the tender age of sixteen . |
| 15 | The principal complaint about me was that I was politically naive — a complaint again made by Michael Foot when I opposed his Bill to introduce a closed shop into journalism , which I describe later . |
| 16 | When I received your ‘ phone call telling me I had won I was dumbfounded . |
| 17 | He says : ‘ I was stunned when I received my first royalty cheque . |
| 18 | When I got my first job out of training it was at Worthing in a juvenile leading role and I got my Equity card because I had been chosen . |
| 19 | More often than not , when I got my booty home , I 'd never even hang it up ; it would sit in the carrier bag or the shoe-box under my bed . |
| 20 | When I got my period , my family made it a happy , celebratory occasion , in their own way . |
| 21 | When I got my breath back I pushed between them . |
| 22 | I could n't see what to photograph , even when I got my slides back there was nothing there . |
| 23 | When I got my hands under the protruding portion I realized there was no point in heaving . |
| 24 | When I signed up for the trip I really did n't know just what to expect ; when I got my packet information I wondered how I would stand up to it but I soon found I adjusted very well and even though I had never slept in a tent in a tent in a sleeping bag or had any experience canoeing I did OK . |
| 25 | ‘ But we were going tae South America : tae Brazil , when I got my leg bit off . |
| 26 | Kapil said : ‘ When I got my 400th Test wicket in Perth last year I promised Sunny that one day both records would belong to Indians and I intend to honour that . |
| 27 | I had really long hair once , it was way past my bum and when I got my first record deal they wanted me to have it all cut off — it was a total disaster . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , ’ Miss Honey said , ‘ when I got my teacher 's job , the aunt told me I owed her a lot of money . |
| 29 | And it was n't a shock when I got my first hit record because I was trying for that all our lives and so she backed me all the way . |
| 30 | ‘ When I got my doctorate I decided I would n't change my name , ’ she explains . |