Example sentences of "[noun sg] when i [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I really have never felt even a flicker of emotion when I sang the National Anthem . |
| 2 | I had almost reached the kitchen doorway when I heard the furious sounds of her footsteps coming back towards me again . |
| 3 | I had half-managed to con a colleague in the Press-box into believing that the Brewongle Stand was named after an old left-arm spinner from Parramatta named Bluey Brewongle when I saw the dark-green uniforms emerging from the pavilion , and the emotions crowded in with a sudden impact . |
| 4 | I left Werewolf with a withering look and headed for the edge of the road , cutting back deeper into the trees so I could n't be seen from the farmhouse when I reached the fenced-off field . |
| 5 | He was abreast with the lorry when I saw the oncoming small black car overtaking on the other side , and overtaking fast . |
| 6 | All I needed was a little bit of luck and as I pressed , dry mouthed , along the empty street it seemed I had found it The shock when I saw the two burly SPs strolling towards me was like a blow but was immediately followed by a strange calm . |
| 7 | This was the one occasion when I missed the clearer control which a conductor , rather than a performing director , could have brought . |
| 8 | I was just going to the exit door when I saw the young girl s standing at the second bedroom , crying . |
| 9 | O'Keeffe 's immediate reaction to the criticism generated by the 1923 show is not known , but it is clear from a letter she wrote to Mitchell Kennerley of the Anderson Gallery in the autumn of 1922 , soon after Rosenfeld 's second article appeared , that she had objected from the beginning to Hartley 's and Rosenfeld 's assessments of her and her art : ‘ You see Rosenfeld 's articles have embarrassed me — [ and ] I wanted to lose the one for the Hartley book when I had the only copy of it to read — so it could n't be in the book . ’ |
| 10 | So it was a big cheering surprise when I opened the front door of Eva 's house one day to find Uncle Ted standing there in his green overalls , a bag of tools hanging from his fist , smiling all over his chopped face . |
| 11 | I 'd just turned on to York Way when I spotted the two city gents who 'd been drinking in the pub . |
| 12 | Peter had set aside this one bottle when I won the Catalan Open in 1989 and said that he would open it when I won my next Tour event . |
| 13 | I asked to have one of the family present when I opened the safe but Gerald objects to it being opened at all without their solicitor being present . |
| 14 | As I made clear to the House when I answered the main question , the know-how fund has been heavily used in the Baltic republics , on which about £900,000 has been spent . |