Example sentences of "[noun sg] when i [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had told neighbours : ‘ We were all watching television in a back bedroom when I went to the toilet . |
| 2 | I had a split second of panic when I came into the office and saw her sitting quietly behind her desk , studying her image in her hand-mirror and conscientiously patting a stray red-gold hair into place . |
| 3 | And what we used to do to begin with the canal used to dip in the middle , you know there was bike wheels and dead cats and everything in it , and it used to dip and , and there was a sludge and , and the barges used to go up and down with a horse pulling them , and in the middle there was a , so you could n't bottom it in the middle , so when I learnt to swim I used to dive off this ledge and go under the water so far and I , I could reach the bottom when I got to the other side . |
| 4 | I bow my head in shame when I think of the countries we 've looted and the people we 've subjugated . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ Sammy took me under his wing when I came into the Northern Ireland team . |
| 6 | But I met one girl by accident when I walked into the hostel one night and she was visiting another girl there . |
| 7 | Goodness when I think of the moving they must have done , the trunks they must have packed . |
| 8 | ‘ Amber always runs up for a hug when I walk through the door ’ , she says . |
| 9 | After his death , I learnt not to shut him out of my life and now I feel a comforting sense of continuity when I go through the boxes and find little notes by him which I have never seen before . |
| 10 | I was just takin' off my apron in the smithy when I says to the guv'nor : |
| 11 | ‘ You were holding up the kiosk when I got off the train , were n't you ? ’ |
| 12 | The BBC would , at that stage , have had a generalist — the standard habit when I arrived in the field was that they would have a generalist producer , researcher , or somebody writing the script , cobbling together the best knowledge , whether the producer or researcher had worked on archaeology last time , flower-arranging next time , what have you after that … |
| 13 | Mm Forgetting all about oh dear I 've got a frog when I go on the air I 'll clear that . |
| 14 | Is there any signal when I get to the van ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I probably made that mark on the ground when I pulled over the door … there 's a scrape on the floor of the gazebo … must have happened when I pushed him over . ’ |
| 16 | Last week , the right hon. Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) accused me of being unduly alarmist when I referred to the figure of 7 million Russians wanting to leave the Soviet Union . |
| 17 | The Wheel Tapper pub behind the railway station in Taunton was my haven when I worked at the art college there in the late 1960s and early 1970s . |
| 18 | I shall have more to say the plaintiff 's young life when I deal with the reports that were written on her from her school when dealing with the loss of future earnings . |
| 19 | ‘ I cut my leg when I fell off the motorbike . |
| 20 | ‘ I cut my leg when I fell off the motorbike . |
| 21 | Sometimes , but only very rarely do I touch a piece of bliss when I grope in the dark . |
| 22 | Michelle added : ‘ She looked a bit of a sight when I got to the station but she 's always trying on my clothes . |
| 23 | I was engaged in enquiry into the matter when I learnt of the attack upon her sister . |
| 24 | He regains his strength when I sit upon the bed beside him ; he reaches for me , he kisses me violently . |
| 25 | Once I did this under the eye of a policeman who nabbed me for parking on a yellow line when I emerged from the bank a few minutes later . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've been away so long I felt a bit like the new boy walking into the old school when I arrived at the studio for Carry On Columbus , ’ he admits . |
| 27 | I remember my feeling of elation when I climbed aboard the train . |
| 28 | And I 'll bring up your bottle when I come for the tray . ’ |
| 29 | I found out they had a computer in the bottom of the building when I worked in the bank and it started off from that . |
| 30 | I needed to earn a bit of extra money when I went on the tour and so I became a professional wrestler in my spare time . |