Example sentences of "when i [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later in that passage he wrote : ‘ It was n't until thirty years later when I saw her in another woman [ Elizabeth Taylor ] that I realised I had been searching for her all my life . ’ |
| 2 | Yet , when I saw him on this occasion , he seemed more than usually calm and quiet , which , given that the most painful of interrupters might arrive at any hour , showed that when , in the very essay I was delivering to him , he had talked about the necessity for the ‘ discipline and training of the emotions ’ , he meant what he said and practised it . |
| 3 | When I wore it for seven hours in wind-driven rain , the jacket only started absorbing water after the fourth hour . |
| 4 | Reinforcement occurs when I help you in some way and you reciprocate by helping me . |
| 5 | Although the ministers were too polite to commit themselves , even when I pressed them on this point , it was clear to me that they felt they , and their church , had been used . |
| 6 | When I wrote it in 1971 there was a postal strike , so I took it up to the BBC personally . |
| 7 | The Muslim Palestinian defenders of Beaufort were ignorant of all this , sitting around the walls in silence when I told them of this historical the old tale of fear , treachery and pain . |
| 8 | When I told her about this |
| 9 | When I told her about this . |
| 10 | When I questioned him about this , he replied enigmatically that certain rock formations which had existed when they had arrived , had since disappeared and that he could swear that the rocks in some places had moved closer together . |
| 11 | said down the corridor he walked in his full uniform , the first morning say and that memory son will always stick ya , cos when I give her over that picture of the twins at Christmas , she , she looked up , she sort of looked up at me , she said I 've got tears in my eyes have n't I , and I looked and like I was choked as well and I , she sort of , I said yeah you are and she said , every time I look at them it brings back those memories the first memories of this little boy |
| 12 | When I say it like that I 'm struck by how near that is to Pope 's ‘ What e'er was thought / But ne'er so well expressed ’ definition of poetry . |
| 13 | But when I accused her of that , she firmly shook her head . |
| 14 | This is the particular issue for debate at this meeting , and I do not presume here either to pre-empt discussion or anticipate what I will say later when I consider it in greater detail . |
| 15 | I just knew I was inspired when I proposed you for this job here , that it would come back to me in some incredible way . |
| 16 | When I press him for more names he suddenly gets the deer-caught-in-the-headlights look , and , deciding he 's already revealed too much , replies , ‘ Ah , just people . ’ |