Example sentences of "when i [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 when I played my first match against Portugal I was lucky because it was a bit of a doddle .
2 ‘ Eleven years later it was like a dream come true when I played my first game for the club and he was still in goal .
3 Mowbray said : ‘ I had just recovered from an Achilles injury on my right leg when I hurt my left ankle .
4 My career was shaped , I suppose , when I sold my first sweater to a smart shop in Stratford at the tender age of sixteen .
5 He says : ‘ I was stunned when I received my first royalty cheque .
6 I think we 'll have one when I get ours other house .
7 When I get my first wage packet let's blow it on an outing somewhere .
8 But when I get my new job , I do n't know .
9 When I got my first laser printer many moons ago , my bank manager almost had a heart attack .
10 And it was n't a shock when I got my first hit record because I was trying for that all our lives and so she backed me all the way .
11 ‘ I suppose I really understood what was at stake when I got my first glimpse of the castle , ’ she admitted , unable to disguise a rather wry smile .
12 When I got my first job out of training it was at Worthing in a juvenile leading role and I got my Equity card because I had been chosen .
13 I had really long hair once , it was way past my bum and when I got my first record deal they wanted me to have it all cut off — it was a total disaster .
14 Kapil said : ‘ When I got my 400th Test wicket in Perth last year I promised Sunny that one day both records would belong to Indians and I intend to honour that .
15 Cos that 's why I did n't get any when I got my last prescription because I 'd been trying to just sort of even take one
16 In the it 's only just till the rep comes he said , when I saw her last week she said like you know , he had n't been if he
17 Do you know she 's now , she was quite cuddly , she was fat in the pregnancy when I saw her last time .
18 Just for a moment Michele looked disconcerted , then said easily , ‘ Signor Candiano must have mentioned it when I saw him this afternoon . ’
19 I feared as much when I saw him this morning . "
20 So somehow it was reassuring to find he had a sore throat when I saw him last Thursday .
21 When I saw my first period I was scared to death .
22 When I saw his blue eyes open wide in surprise , I felt very sorry I had lied , and that evening , as soon as I found Joe alone for a moment , I confessed to him that I had lied about my visit to Miss Havisham .
23 ‘ I was encouraged by the way the idea was received by Sepp Blatter , Fifa 's general secretary , when I met him last month , ’ Kelly said yesterday , ‘ and I 've also been encouraged by his comments since then . ’
24 And my speed on the TI 's little keys is n't the same as when I use my beloved Cherry keyboard .
25 While I am on my feet , perhaps I may apologise for referring in an earlier answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Northampton , North when I meant my hon. Friend the Member for Littleborough and Saddleworth ( Mr. Dickens ) , who made the suggestion .
26 Well I feel erm really that we should have a little bit more compassion amongst ourselves as women and when I had my first child I had a very good friend who went through the pregnancy with me who is waiting for a child to arrive by adoption , and she had the baby a couple of months after I had my baby .
27 I remember that when I had my first Meccano set , Dad made a simple hoist which was clamped to the table , a pulley was fixed to a hook above the mirror and my Teddy Bear used to go on trips up to the ceiling .
28 When I had my first heart attack 12 years ago I was terrified .
29 When I had my first implant , sir , ’ the soldier confessed , ‘ my old woman said to me , Frinza , he said , get yourself in the army soon as you can , boy .
30 Oh er of course they erm , they did n't believe in married women working and er they thought a married woman should be at home you see , well I had n't got any family then you see , until er after oh we 'd been married a number of years when we had , when I had my first baby and er and then I had the other one pretty quickly and er then I was glad to go out to work again when they were school age , they were n't left unattended at all er one , the elder one looked after the one , we did n't live , we lived in then but erm there was n't any pressure for me to stay at home , it was with my husband 's consent , because he knew it was helping out because rent man 's wages were n't very good then , and erm he er he finished , he finished at the pits you see and he got a job rent collecting , and he er he used to do miles he 'd cycle part of the way and then er he 'd perhaps leave his cycle somewhere and call back for it , but he used to do all the and all round there , there 's a place called and then er a lot of places er he used to do the old , is this , is this on , erm he used to do round , round the top there there were some slums there .
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