Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 When I saw her again two weeks later , Joyce could n't wait to tell me what had happened .
2 When I saw it here this afternoon I felt there was a tiny change . ’
3 When I saw you again last week , I wondered if you 'd changed your mind . ’
4 When I met the Association of British Insurers about six months ago , it was reluctant to take a collective view , but when I met it about two months ago , its views had changed considerably , because the claims paid by insurers rose by 46 per cent .
5 I thought I told you to go straight to bed when I sent you home last night . "
6 He seemed pleased when I told him how much I appreciated such poems as ‘ Cool Tombs ’ , ‘ The Hangman ’ , ‘ Kalamazoo ’ , ‘ Chicago — Hog Butcher ’ , and his later volume ‘ Good Morning , America ’ .
7 I first talked about the war with my father on a train outside Bognor Regis , when I asked him how many Germans he had killed .
8 But when I asked him how much of the land of the state of Israel might potentially have two claimants — an Arab and a Jew holding respectively a British mandate and an Israeli deed to the same property — he said he figure was accurate — and it should be remembered that over half of Israel in 1948 consisted of the Negev desert — then it suggested that Arabs owned a far greater proportion of that part of Palestine which became Israel than has previously been imagined .
9 When I asked her how easy or difficult she had found the exercise , Sylvia told me that she had been quite surprised at how simple it had been .
10 In contrast to Wyndham Lewis , who when I invited him home expressed apprehension that he might have to meet my family ( a prospect which seemed slightly to unnerve him ) , Eliot showed no such anxiety about my people .
11 Oh , why did you go away , when I loved you so much ?
12 I do n't know why ’ Constanza told me that when she told me so little else .
13 When she opened them again one of the elderly ladies had drawn level with her .
14 Chamberlain and I were inclined to be impatient when we saw him so reluctant to take the only course which seemed to us possible . ’
15 It was fine when we had it out two weeks ago .
16 This is a , a helpful and reciprocal relationship because our students , who are in our Postgraduate Certificate of Education course , that 's university graduates who are training to be teachers , do go out into schools in this area and do their teaching practice in those schools in a rather interesting way and we developed a scheme , here in Sussex , which was quite novel when we started it about ten years ago .
17 But then when they went up when they passed it just two year ago it was fenced off .
18 and er he said that when they took it up three years ago of course they from the first six months I think it is and we got on to them and they they did agree
19 When it took you so long to get here , I thought you must have gone on up to his place with him , but I suppose Nicky Kai is still in residence .
20 Party Politics , known as an equine giant in racing circles because of his massive size , was cruising when he took it up four fences from home , and winning jockey Carl Llewellyn later admitted that his chief concern at that stage had been striking the front too early .
21 When he brought her back another drink he moved close to her trying to have a conversation .
22 Now , when he allowed her so much of his time , she realised that what she had felt before was but a poor shade of the real thing .
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