Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [vb past] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember being thrilled when I got the first whicker of recognition from my horse and most people feel happier and more confident riding a horse they know — even if it is n't well behaved ! |
| 2 | oh I , I 'd never , I I realize now from six weeks ago when I got the damn things |
| 3 | Most of them broke when I peeled the real leaf off the chocolate which I 'd painted on — not quite up to Mum 's standards of patience and perfection , but who ever saw lots of perfect leaves ( not on a tree ) anyway . |
| 4 | I 'd just turned on to York Way when I spotted the two city gents who 'd been drinking in the pub . |
| 5 | When I announced the Green Paper last July , the hon. Gentleman said that he would examine our proposals carefully . |
| 6 | I think , because I had been working on Armchair Theatre , I was used to a certain style of drama , so when I saw the first Doctor Who script my first reaction was , after the first half hour , all we were left with was a lot of hairy-chested cavemen jumping around , grunting and going ‘ Ug ’ . |
| 7 | One survivor says : ‘ When I saw the first bomb fall , I knew that it was going to be a bad day for America ’ . |
| 8 | I mean it was cursory , it became cursory when I saw the bloody pile of stuff that I 'd got to read , and I thought , ‘ Well I 'll you know we 'll skip that and I 'll just say what a wonderful lot you are for doing so much . ’ |
| 9 | When I saw the awful shape that was coming towards us out of the fog , my blood turned cold . |
| 10 | I was just going to the exit door when I saw the young girl s standing at the second bedroom , crying . |
| 11 | My eyes were immediately attracted to the table and my mouth started watering when I saw the home-made cakes and jam tarts laid out on a white lace tablecloth . |
| 12 | As a conservator in Europe , involved with the treatment of stone and marble affected by the ravages of twentieth-century pollution , I was delighted when I saw the great marble buildings at Agra seemingly unaffected by such problems . |
| 13 | When I saw the potential ability of so many of my opponents and how young so many of them were , I realised that I would have to devote more time to practice than there was in a day just to become a moderate professional . |
| 14 | When I saw the next auberge coming up , I drew in to the side of the road , put on my raincoat , and walked along to it . |
| 15 | When I saw the red dress , I knew that was the one I wanted . |
| 16 | But those gloomy musings ended abruptly when the skim dropped me near the pod was berthed — and when I saw the shadowy figures around it . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I really have never felt even a flicker of emotion when I sang the National Anthem . |
| 19 | When I congratulated the poor girl , she almost fainted . |
| 20 | But the actual impetus to ‘ act ’ only came when I met the right people in the right context … that is , Gerry and Amitha and the rest of the Working Party . |
| 21 | I was struck when I attended the first conference on corporate governance after the draft Cadbury Report was published . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | When I had the two miscarriages — you did n't know about the miscarriages , did you , Charles ? ’ |
| 24 | And that was a fortnight ago when I had the first scan . |
| 25 | erm , why is it so much higher than the similar figure , the same figure for , my sub team , when I had the same number of stage one decisions and one more stage two decision ? |
| 26 | Well really when I had the same thing , you know , and goes back for a little bit this morning and er same sort of thing . |
| 27 | In theory , it takes a few seconds for the machine to recognize a new card , but in practice it worked so fast that when I inserted the Flash RAM card and typed ‘ dir A ’ , the machine responded instantly with a list of the card 's contents . |
| 28 | She put some spring water on my wart one evening and it was gone when I woke the next day . ’ |
| 29 | He still was n't back when I returned that night , and when I woke the next morning , his side of the bed had n't been slept in . |
| 30 | I was in my room sorting out what I was to take with me when I heard the front door . |