Example sentences of "when i went [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was there when I went across the yard yesterday . |
| 2 | When I went into the room there was this massive pedestal set up , smothered in red with a big throne and red velvet drapes . |
| 3 | I could n't believe it when I went into the shop and saw hundreds of milk bottles scattered everywhere . |
| 4 | When I went into the shop people were tripping over themselves and banging into things and I could hear them saying : ‘ That 's Geoffrey Boycott — Geoffrey Boycott , sat in that car . ’ |
| 5 | Er one of my worst experiences actually was going to school and found that when we walk when I went into the classroom there was only me and two other children . |
| 6 | There were several cars in the drive and when I went into the house I saw that Mrs Rumney had a few people in for drinks ; people like herself — upper class and of obvious refinement . |
| 7 | When I went into the house , the domestics refrained from looking at me . |
| 8 | I was Mr Anthony Evans when I went into the Palace . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ When I went into the Leeds dressing room to say kick-off had been delayed , the reaction of their management and players was not as I believe it should be . |
| 10 | I was a witness and so on you see and down below and the sergeant said to me , the sergeant came up and said to me , you 'll have to be careful because he said that boy , he was sitting there with his mother , poor woman , all in black and er the em the boy 's employer had got a solicitor on his behalf , you see , and I said well I can only speak through and say what happened , that 's all I can do and er , so of course when I went into the witness box this man came and er asked me all sorts of questions . |
| 11 | Er this night he was , when I went into the byre in the morning Charlie was n't there . |
| 12 | ‘ That basic shape — the squarish shoulders and narrow hips — is one that I discovered , when I went through the files , keeps turning up again and again over the years . |
| 13 | When I went through the Blackfriars underpass I felt as though I had been hit by a brick , ’ she said . |
| 14 | But as i told you before , when the council started preparing for Hitler , in when I went on the council work in nineteen thirty six I had to fill the ditches in there . |
| 15 | I needed to earn a bit of extra money when I went on the tour and so I became a professional wrestler in my spare time . |
| 16 | Inspector , but anyhow , now when I went on the detective staff I 'd only been on the force just over three years |
| 17 | over subscribed courses as well , I mean when I went on the language and , and the national curriculum and that other thing that I did on the national curriculum , masses of people there . |
| 18 | When I went to the DHSS I vowed to make time for a serious investigation into company pensions . |
| 19 | When I went to the Centre , Dr. Alec Forbes had left , but his stamp lay everywhere . |
| 20 | You , Mr. Speaker , would not permit me to give a full answer to the right hon. Gentleman 's question , which reminds me of a minute that I sent out , when I went to the Home Office in 1987 , to the then permanent secretary . |
| 21 | He seemed bright enough and very eager to learn , but when I went to the school to see his work I found that his handwriting was very , very bad and his spelling was absolutely atrocious , and although he was good at mathematics , as time went on he began to get very worried and very upset about it and when I looked at his work I realized that he was doing a lot of the words back to front and was getting the direction of figures mixed up . |
| 22 | I awoke next morning to a brilliant pearly light , but when I went to the window , no sea was visible . |
| 23 | When I went to the toilet , one would come and piss next to me to make me feel inadequate . |
| 24 | She had told neighbours : ‘ We were all watching television in a back bedroom when I went to the toilet . |
| 25 | When I went to the door with my lamp , I saw a man coming slowly upstairs . |
| 26 | Cos I er , I when I went to the door in our and Bunny and er , it was n't it was an elder gentleman says , ah ! |
| 27 | " Forgive me , " he said to Sir Edmund , " but when I went to the Commissioner , whom I know slightly , I understood that the police would be good enough to look into our problem . |
| 28 | well where was I ? , oh , must 've been when I went to the loo Have you had a drink Martin ? |
| 29 | Hence when I went to the Lords in 1965 I sat as a cross-bencher , although periodically , according to my attitude at the time , I was supporting one or other of the two parties and rarely took a cross-bench approach . |
| 30 | When I went to the United States in 1977 , I often ate what they called ‘ English Muffin' . |