Example sentences of "when i [verb] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I ask the fat ladies at the drop-in centre what is the one thing that would do most to improve the estate they say ‘ get rid of the kids ’ and they are only half joking . |
| 2 | oh I , I 'd never , I I realize now from six weeks ago when I got the damn things |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I had almost reached the kitchen doorway when I heard the furious sounds of her footsteps coming back towards me again . |
| 7 | I 'm sick to death of the worry it 's brought , what with the lease-owners demanding money from me , when I 've no bloody rents to collect there … |
| 8 | And when the bud grew in me , and I knew her every cell as it pulsed to life ; when I felt the pliant fingernails and rip of flesh that is a mouth:then I knew this was my planet . |
| 9 | At first he thought I was mad , but when I took the live animals out of my pocket to show him , he believed me . |
| 10 | When I examined the new drugs , I was glad to see some acriflavine — a useful all-round skin antiseptic which has to be used with a bandage to prevent evaporation because of its alcohol base . |
| 11 | And when I recall the shattering consequences of what happened one night a month or so later , I think of Hamlet , saying ‘ When sorrows come , they come not single spies , But in battalions . ’ |