Example sentences of "when i [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I ran into the kitchen the oven was lying on the ground and thought she had done it . |
| 2 | I watched the clock ticking away as I approached , and when I passed through the finish line I held my arms up to heaven and with my eyes closed said ‘ Thank you god . |
| 3 | For instance when in a dream she was conducted by me over a market garden in Aegina , one could guess that she had been reading Angus Wilson 's The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot , in which a market garden figures ; or when I dreamed of a detective novel by her , with a detective bearing her own name and very uncharacteristically dressed there were signs of my addiction to the detective novels of Gladys Mitchell . |
| 4 | When I inquired after the baptism he said he had been mistaken , it had been yesterday , but that there would be another in a few days and , anyway , who needed a baptism to enjoy themselves ? |
| 5 | By then the noise of the avalanche had died away , only the echoes of it reverberating across the valley , and when I shifted into the driving seat and looked back , the road behind us had ceased to exist . |
| 6 | At least back when I lived in a hole I knew everything there was to know about living in a hole , and now it 's a year later and I 'm at a place so far away I do n't even know how far away it is , watching something I do n't understand go to a place so far up there is no down . |
| 7 | Teaching young children the right from wrong , and why the police are there and , accepting them as friends , like we did when I lived in the village . |
| 8 | I was not to attend St Stephen 's until years later , when I lived in the parish ; but meanwhile I had attended Tenebrae more than once , and had indeed found it beautiful and moving , with the abrupt strepitacula somehow reinforcing the effect . |
| 9 | When I played with the Lego I built a bridge . |
| 10 | When I played in the Wimbledon final , I knew that I had certain kinds of weaknesses . |
| 11 | When I knocked at the door , Mr Rochester 's old servant , John , opened it and recognized me . |
| 12 | I was often to think of them when I reflected on the career of Portia Forbes . |
| 13 | And when I t when I got on a Friday and and paid me wages over to me Mum , which was natural for you to do , I always got th thre three pennies back . |
| 14 | When I got on the edge of the road I said to them , ‘ Who 's winning ? ’ |
| 15 | Anyway , when I got on the scales I 'm ten stone three . |
| 16 | ‘ I saw you there when I got off the airport bus . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You were holding up the kiosk when I got off the train , were n't you ? ’ |
| 18 | When I got off the bus she was at Hackney Cen Central with all her friends . |
| 19 | I wept a little as I climbed the creaky stairs , and when I got into the attic I knelt down beside the bed , put my hands together and prayed . |
| 20 | I could then plot that precise position again when I got into the studio as the spot for a camera and , by Jove , he was always right . |
| 21 | When I got into the ring I was fortunately unaware that he was a Services champion . |
| 22 | Mr Lighten 's wife Anne , 53 , told the inquest : ‘ When I got into the house I smelt gas and noticed a noise in the garage . |
| 23 | When I got to the part of your letter about masturbation , I went to my room and masturbated . |
| 24 | When I got to the part about my head she tut-tutted . |
| 25 | ‘ So off I went , and when I got to the Severn Bridge , I thought to myself , ‘ I can go straight on and take him to Potter 's and get about four hundred quid carcase value , or turn right for the University and probably have nothing … |
| 26 | But when I got to the window and looked out , there was nothing there ! |
| 27 | Michelle added : ‘ She looked a bit of a sight when I got to the station but she 's always trying on my clothes . |
| 28 | When I got to the station they read the charge against me , charged me with it and I asked whether I was getting bail . |
| 29 | They had handcuffs on me and I 've still got marks on my hands — you can see — where the handcuffs were put on so tight that when I got to the station they could n't get them off me . |
| 30 | So I hung around in the sun a couple of hours and when I got to the station there 's a car in the car-park with the old guy in the back , and he has friends . ’ |