Example sentences of "[pron] when [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aye , but in that lounge , when I when I went that lounge it was , they were the sort of people that bloody do n't open the curtains ! |
| 2 | ‘ Well , Mrs Cohen , I wo n't keep you , ’ he said , not wishing to delay himself when he had more money to earn and no prospect of any worthwhile gossip from this quarter . |
| 3 | How old were you when you passed that scholarship ? |
| 4 | " I do n't know if you realize , but your Aunt made over most of her stuff to you when you married this fellow . |
| 5 | I can actually recall a press release which came to me about a a principal tourism officer who had just been appointed to be the head , you know the president for the year of his professional body , and in his own town a press release was put out in which his name was incorrectly spelt , and the conference at which he was about to be invested was actually taking , and I blush to say that it was in Brighton , I can only tell you when I got that press release I did what I frequently do , which is outline in highlighter the mistakes on the press release , put it back into the envelope and send it back to the relevant officer . |
| 6 | You see , I was with her when they met one day in the rose-garden and I watched their faces as they talked together . ’ |
| 7 | You should have heard her when she got that craze for Vegetarianism and Bernard Shaw . |
| 8 | I interviewed him when he became First Sea Lord and on one or two other occasions , and I always slightly regretted that my commitment to current affairs had prevented me from taking up Associated Rediffusion 's offer to spend two years with him , at home and abroad , researching and scripting the thirteen programmes they were planning on his Life and Times — a task subsequently and admirably performed by John Terraine . |
| 9 | We went through days with him when he met African trades union seminars and black nationalist leaders ; Cabinet Ministers ; some of the most shell-backed Right-wingers and some of the most outspoken men of the Left . |
| 10 | She seemed to believe him when he invented another meeting with Verrall , to discuss the Jacobite research . |
| 11 | Yes , Phyllis Henley , the tough professional , would tell him when she had hard information , so he could only conclude she was still working on her lead . |
| 12 | I knew he , I did n't know him , I did n't know him , but I do go and see him when I saw this case was covered up , and it seems to be utterly unreasonable that this poor old chap was going to have doors slamming and banging , and then people coming out the Dance about midnight , and his whole life being disrupted , so I I turned on there , unknown to my own Council , oh , they were cross with me . |
| 13 | Nought for presuming I was talking to him when I made that call . ’ |
| 14 | Was it when we knew each other ? ’ |
| 15 | Was that had we and I know we mentioned it when we met last time , but was that really we 're including in E O work with the unemployed . |
| 16 | The comics come from all over the world and there were people queueing up to see it when we opened last Saturday . ’ |
| 17 | Leek out , had this heart trouble , and he 'd been in the Signals about oh ten year , he , he was on for twelve engagement and he nearly completed it when he had this heart trouble . |
| 18 | He also liked it when he saw other men around the ringside looking at her approvingly . |
| 19 | You loathed it when you saw other people behaving like this and yet you could no more control it in yourself than you could any other automatic physical reflex . |
| 20 | Some said they were sensitive to the water , their symptoms leaving them when they drank bottled water . |
| 21 | As soon as he realised what was happening he put the pressure on , and was closing with them when he saw another assault boat . |
| 22 | And I was with them when I had this holiday with my sister and we went abroad |
| 23 | He went back into Iraq , in the marshes , at great personal danger to himself and translated for me when we met some Shias . |
| 24 | , was with me when we had that accident . |
| 25 | That the style they replaced it with is specifically a feminist style is suggested by the comments made to me when I interviewed feminist women about how they thought feminists talked . |
| 26 | Old did n't believe me when I said this afternoon . |
| 27 | And the rosebush culled from the best North-West London nursery — he 'd planted it last Saturday — was only there for me when I ripped scarlet beads of blood from thin air . |
| 28 | ‘ The car was coming past me when I fired another shot into the wing , ’ he continued . |
| 29 | We were as glad as anything when we saw this rain coming down . |
| 30 | ‘ I did n't win anything when I entered last year , so I adapted the recipe then heard I was in the North of England finals . |