Example sentences of "when i [vb past] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | When I announced the Green Paper last July , the hon. Gentleman said that he would examine our proposals carefully . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | When I saw the awful shape that was coming towards us out of the fog , my blood turned cold . |
| 5 | I was just going to the exit door when I saw the young girl s standing at the second bedroom , crying . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | When I saw the red dress , I knew that was the one I wanted . |
| 9 | I really have never felt even a flicker of emotion when I sang the National Anthem . |
| 10 | When I congratulated the poor girl , she almost fainted . |
| 11 | O'Keeffe 's immediate reaction to the criticism generated by the 1923 show is not known , but it is clear from a letter she wrote to Mitchell Kennerley of the Anderson Gallery in the autumn of 1922 , soon after Rosenfeld 's second article appeared , that she had objected from the beginning to Hartley 's and Rosenfeld 's assessments of her and her art : ‘ You see Rosenfeld 's articles have embarrassed me — [ and ] I wanted to lose the one for the Hartley book when I had the only copy of it to read — so it could n't be in the book . ’ |
| 12 | In theory , it takes a few seconds for the machine to recognize a new card , but in practice it worked so fast that when I inserted the Flash RAM card and typed ‘ dir A ’ , the machine responded instantly with a list of the card 's contents . |
| 13 | I was in my room sorting out what I was to take with me when I heard the front door . |
| 14 | When I heard the rowdy noise earlier , I was sure that there was a John Doe — dead on arrival — back from Maastricht . |
| 15 | I laughed when I heard the old cliché about ‘ having him under my feet . ’ |
| 16 | I was debating whether to try to stop the bleeding first or to leave him in his uncertain state while I found a way out , trusting he would n't totally pass out , when I heard the main door creak open directly above our heads ; the way Harry and I had come in . |
| 17 | When I kissed the dark mole , she laughed again and held the back of my head , tight so I could n't breathe . |
| 18 | When I told the Head Girl , she explained that the French girl was a lesbian . |
| 19 | It was not until about a year later , when I became the High Master of Warboys , that I took him into Warboys and made him a sort of Staff pilot flying Oxford aircraft on special navigational training exercises ; this was something that I could physically check and I do not know why it is , and I am not being clever now , I just accepted the evidence he gave me of this phoney flying . |
| 20 | When I addressed the General Meeting last year I was heavily involved in preparing for the move from Gray 's Inn to Bedford Row . |
| 21 | ‘ When I left the private sector in 1979 to become Keith Joseph 's special adviser , the car industry in this country was in ruins . |
| 22 | When I left the Civil Service in 1987 I was rather pessimistic . |
| 23 | I certainly learnt next to nothing at St Aubyn 's and when I took the Common Entrance examination for Eton I failed so ignominiously that the authorities wrote to my mother that it would be futile for me to try again . |
| 24 | There was a time years ago when I made the odd item of clothing and I have started designing stuff again now . |
| 25 | But only when I reached the washed sky of the Thames did I dare to pull over and negotiate my fear . |
| 26 | But when I reached the great stone columns of the main gate , I stood still in horror . |
| 27 | It was the largest I had ever seen , split up into walled units , ten of them Ward had said , and when I reached the western limit of it I was face to face with the heaving bulk of the ocean . |
| 28 | ‘ Three of them , Gyonval , Gwyllos and Curundoloc were still with me when I reached the forbidden world and found the shrine in ruins . ’ |
| 29 | I left Werewolf with a withering look and headed for the edge of the road , cutting back deeper into the trees so I could n't be seen from the farmhouse when I reached the fenced-off field . |
| 30 | Doctor Andrews was so kind all the time Daddy was so terribly ill , and when I realized the desperate state of our financial affairs I told him about it , and asked his advice . |