Example sentences of "when i [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | The 43-year-old dance king who grew up in Hartlepool , says : ‘ I was in plaster for five weeks when I injured my knee ligaments . |
2 | It was when I got back to my new room there that I first came across my new neighbours , Jane and Mark Walsh , and their two children , Sonja and Darren . |
3 | Another amusing incident to come out of ‘ Space Oddity ’ was when I got a phone call from David one day , who said he had to record an Italian version of the song because two kids in Italy had apparently done a cover version of it and as it looked as if it was going to do quite well , the Italian record company wanted a version by the original artist and said they would send someone along to teach Bowie phonetically how to sing the song . |
4 | Otley wanted to know when I got home . |
5 | It was only when I got home and looked up the dictionary that I realised what a gem it had been . |
6 | That was when I got the gun out . |
7 | So I decided to draw a line across the book and finish the last few pages when I got back . |
8 | I was just packing up my medical papers when I got a call to Ward 16 , now also a reception ward . |
9 | One of them came to see me last night when I got back from Paris . |
10 | The hot water had prickled pleasantly at the nameless place at the tops of my thighs when I got in ; cooler now , it lapped at the dome of my stomach . |
11 | The hardest part was establishing the rhythm and co-ordination but luckily he 's a tolerant chap who did n't appear to mind when I got it wrong . ’ |
12 | 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 . |
13 | That is when I got a real bee in my bonnet about British restaurants . |
14 | That 's basically when I got in with a guy in Memphis and we started Fernwood Records , and I got interested in the engineering side of it . |
15 | It was only when I got on the ground and tried to walk did I realise that I had a bullet through the top of my right ankle . |
16 | It was only when I got to know something of the poverty of India 's villages ( some 500,000 of them ) that I really saw far worse poverty . |
17 | It had been dark for an hour when I got back to the car park . |
18 | The other night when I got in , he told me to put my feet up , gave me a G and T and dished up the dinner he 'd slaved over . |
19 | That was when I got hit . ’ |
20 | Obviously this sense of guilt , this idea that I had betrayed a friendship , spurred me on when I got older , not only to study birds but also actively to promote their well-being and do what I could to prevent their numbers from dwindling . |
21 | It was early evening when I got into London 's vehicular scrummage and I had plenty of time to see Toby in hospital . |
22 | I had never cooked a healthy meal and I was only there a month when I got into burglary . ’ |
23 | It was after 1 am when I got up from the table , and I was one of the first to retire ! |
24 | I mainly used to chase it in me mate 's house , but sometimes when I got home , I 'd have a toot before I went to bed . |
25 | I was on two bags a day when I went to see me GP and I was on between a quarter and half a gram when I got to the hospital . |
26 | How much I used really depended on what time of the month it was , on when I got paid , like . |
27 | It was when I got into the Law Courts and began a long series of litigation lasting twenty five years " . |
28 | ‘ I know who I was when I got up this morning , but I have changed so often since then . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | I had n't been back longer than ten minutes when I got a sledgehammer through my street door . |