Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [adj] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You were hardly in a cheerful frame of mind when I first met you this morning . |
| 2 | When I first met my Working Group I was astonished to discover that they were far more progressive in outlook than the members of the Kingman Committee . |
| 3 | When I first saw her black and white photographs using animal parts compiled into a series of hunters ' trophies , I was certainly put off from visiting this exhibition . |
| 4 | This cost-effective nature of a scholarship was a matter I had been asked to justify when I first asked my new assistant chief constable about the potential of postgraduate research as an ‘ observing participator ’ . |
| 5 | I think I was a little disappointed by the countryside in the north of Lewis when I first encountered its bleak wilderness of peat bog , but after a while I was to know and love the open moors . |
| 6 | The British politician Geoffrey Howe said in an interview on television : ‘ We thought it was right to come to a decision when I next met them last night . ’ |
| 7 | so it 's all hot on the plate and served straight away you know , luckily erm I managed it but I got in a little bit of a flap I will admit it whereas Shirl 's now got used to that I mean I when we first came we both used to do our own help each other out I used to help out but erm |
| 8 | ‘ It was like an enchanted garden when we first saw it six years ago , very full and wild . |
| 9 | Although there had been some good reports from other growers we were not happy with crop or , particularly , flavour when we first grew it last year — 1990 . |
| 10 | He decided to open his eyes , and immediately knew how God must have felt when he first observed his new creation . |
| 11 | There is also a contrast between the forge and Satis House as the house is barricaded and the inside is all dark so Pip has to be led by candlelight to Miss Havisham and when he first sees her all in white she looks like a fairy godmother but as he looks closer he sees her decay and yellowness . |