Example sentences of "when i [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not find any improvement in actual dollars spent on maintenance when I compared an object-oriented system written in 350,000 lines of C++ with a comparably complex product written in 1.25 million lines of C code . |
| 2 | When I received an unexpected invitation , I do n't know how , to deliver the opening address of an important conference on Germanic studies at Göttingen dedicated to ‘ Controversies ancient and modern ’ , I chose to raise this issue , which seemed so crucial to me . |
| 3 | I was doing some mental arithmetic , counting up what was in my wire basket , when I got a great dig in the backside . |
| 4 | Not even when I got a new baby was it . |
| 5 | oh I , I 'd never , I I realize now from six weeks ago when I got the damn things |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When I announced the Green Paper last July , the hon. Gentleman said that he would examine our proposals carefully . |
| 8 | I was just going to look through it to find out what was happening in the passage when I saw a fishy eye fixed in the centre . |
| 9 | At about three o'clock in the afternoon , I was standing at the door of the inn when I saw a blind man coming along the road . |
| 10 | One day I disturbed three separate males and was feeling thoroughly frustrated and incompetent when I saw a magnificent bull , silhouetted on a ridge against the setting sun , a graceful , powerful body with a great sweep of spiralling horns . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | When I saw the awful shape that was coming towards us out of the fog , my blood turned cold . |
| 13 | I was just going to the exit door when I saw the young girl s standing at the second bedroom , crying . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | When I saw the red dress , I knew that was the one I wanted . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | One morning I was driving along the road when I saw an old man frantically waving a walking stick at passing cars . |
| 21 | In March , on a visit to Leatherhead , I was walking around the JS branch when I saw an old customer . |
| 22 | I really have never felt even a flicker of emotion when I sang the National Anthem . |
| 23 | I have had a bit of ‘ medical ’ excitement myself since I last wrote : first when I overturned a full supermarket trolley on to my leg , bursting a small artery with dramatically bloody results . |
| 24 | When I hired a private detective to test this hypothesis |
| 25 | When I congratulated the poor girl , she almost fainted . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | My shorthand also let me down when I attended a local inquest . |
| 28 | Every few minutes I found some reason to stop : to take off my sweater , to put on my robe , to change from boots to training-shoes and back again , to eat some oats , to take my temperature , to redistribute the load inside the lockers and , when I had no other excuse , simply to rest . |
| 29 | When I had a small printing business in Stornoway several of my employees were crofters . |
| 30 | When I had a close look at it , I saw that the inside of its mouth , which should have been pink , was very pale and frothing . |