Example sentences of "when i [verb] the [adj] [noun] " 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 | alright well I 'll have a I 'll have another chat with when I get the flipping chance and then |
| 3 | Just three of the qualities I possess that will be invaluable when I get the inevitable call to take up Football League management . |
| 4 | oh I , I 'd never , I I realize now from six weeks ago when I got the damn things |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | When I announced the Green Paper last July , the hon. Gentleman said that he would examine our proposals carefully . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | When I saw the awful shape that was coming towards us out of the fog , my blood turned cold . |
| 9 | I was just going to the exit door when I saw the young girl s standing at the second bedroom , crying . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | When I saw the red dress , I knew that was the one I wanted . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I really have never felt even a flicker of emotion when I sang the National Anthem . |
| 17 | When I congratulated the poor girl , she almost fainted . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | When I close the front door behind me I have a lump in my throat . |
| 20 | When I close the front door behind me , the hall is lit only by the streetlight , glowing faintly through frosted glass . |
| 21 | The points I 'm making , I should add , are not particularly political points , erm I get a little worried when I hear the sharp division between productive and unproductive occupations . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 24 | I was in my room sorting out what I was to take with me when I heard the front door . |
| 25 | When I heard the rowdy noise earlier , I was sure that there was a John Doe — dead on arrival — back from Maastricht . |
| 26 | I laughed when I heard the old cliché about ‘ having him under my feet . ’ |
| 27 | I had almost reached the kitchen doorway when I heard the furious sounds of her footsteps coming back towards me again . |
| 28 | I was debating whether to try to stop the bleeding first or to leave him in his uncertain state while I found a way out , trusting he would n't totally pass out , when I heard the main door creak open directly above our heads ; the way Harry and I had come in . |
| 29 | When I kissed the dark mole , she laughed again and held the back of my head , tight so I could n't breathe . |
| 30 | When I told the Head Girl , she explained that the French girl was a lesbian . |