Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clive practised his exercises diligently and , when I saw him the following week , he had mastered the breathing technique — although it still took a great deal of concentration on his part and was not something he did naturally . |
| 2 | And when I saw it the other day , on my way from London 's West End , I could n't believe it . |
| 3 | When I saw it the other night , tucked inside the cello part of one of the piano trios we play , she had got as far as ‘ State 7 — Moderate Gale : Intervals of laughter . |
| 4 | The right hon. and learned Gentleman nodded when I asked him the same question earlier , but he has not said how he will ensure fairness between schools and therefore , no discrimination against students with special needs . |
| 5 | When I found her the other side of my desk I told her in no uncertain terms I was n't having anything to do with it . |
| 6 | And then when I gave you the minimum premium er it was like right okay well that 's , that 's the easy way out is n't it , twenty quid a month , okay I might do something for twenty quid because I was n't committed and that 's what exploration of needs is all about and it 's , it 's so easy for me to sit and say yeah that 's what you need to do but putting myself in your shoes , you know , a few years ago |
| 7 | After all , you were n't overly concerned about my feelings when you interviewed me the other day , were you ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm not sure what you mean , ’ she stated then , ‘ but you were most definitely hostile to me when you saw me the next day , and that was still before you knew I was a journalist . ’ |
| 9 | That 's what I said to her when she said it the other day I said how old are you Mrs ? |
| 10 | When she gave him the second half of S. Kettering 's rent , he put it in his pocket without counting it . |
| 11 | We listened to the hon. Member for Derby , South when she gave us the present status of Beckett 's laws — a pledge to increase pensions and child benefit , to which the new manufacturing package has been added . |
| 12 | When she did it the second time . |
| 13 | When we reached it the next day , we were disappointed to find that in our more prosaic age they simply open the gates . |
| 14 | Right , which is what we got when we did it the other way . |
| 15 | Where I used to live , when they evacuated me the first time . ’ |
| 16 | FORMER Goon Harry Secombe , who has had a second home in Majorca for the past 15 years , reckoned he had finally been accepted by the locals when they gave him the Spanish name El Gordo . |
| 17 | Scientists did not help matters when they gave it the generic name Oreamnos , meaning ‘ mountain lamb ’ . |
| 18 | They land in a field among crop circles ( they bought crop circle footage off National Geographic , and when they watched it the only car you could see in it was — synchronicity ! — a red station wagon … ) and then pick up a hitch-hiking alien . |
| 19 | That 's what I thought it was at first but when he said it the next time it sounded different , it was nymph , rag nymph , that 's what he called me . |
| 20 | Yet when he saw her the next day and attempted to speak to her she told him to leave her alone and ran off into the prop-room . |
| 21 | I remember him taking me for a drive in his car when he told me the joyful news about his forthcoming marriage to Rosemary and feeling so happy that he was going to be happy . |
| 22 | All the same it was hard to restrain her pleasure when he called her the following evening . |
| 23 | Celia 's patience snapped when he poured her the second glass of retsina . |