Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I get this office sorted out I will have four or five sets in here , all of them on different channels , ’ he laughs . |
| 2 | I had just checked into the hotel and come down to the sunken terrace when I saw armed men running in a crouched position by the swimming pool . |
| 3 | I 've just realized I have n't either , when I saw that woman crossing the road I thought it was her . |
| 4 | When I saw that woman crossing the road , I thought it was here . |
| 5 | Yet for all this , more co-ordinated machinery still has to emerge and I confess to experiencing a certain sour taste of insincerity when I hear educational leaders talking about promoting a relevant and dynamic curriculum for primary schools , yet notice that they are hastening most slowly in providing the assessment policy needed to enable this to happen . |
| 6 | Sounds said it , ‘ lacked that vital emotional jackboot , ’ Melody Maker had the sprawling 13-word judgement : ‘ Reasonable is the last thing I feel when I hear this shambling mess , ’ and even NME took off the gloves with : ‘ David Gedge 's approach is as suitable as yellow and red check boxer shorts : piss stained . ’ |
| 7 | When I hear Tory Members speaking about the health service , in Trafford or anywhere else , I am bound to come to the conclusion that they are after family jobs . |
| 8 | I literally jumped for joy when I heard that key turn in the lock and saw Mum and Mrs Taylor enter with another woman . |
| 9 | It was a warm , spring morning and I was lying in the garden , reflecting on life in general and taking it easy , when I heard this music coming from the top-floor flat where the windows were all open — and there was somebody singing . |
| 10 | When I said that spike went up his trouser leg and shouted and up and at them ! |
| 11 | Planning for the fateful flight started several weeks earlier when I made tentative arrangements to visit a microlight manufacturer at Membury airfield in Berkshire for the review of the Chevron which appears in this issue . |
| 12 | I 'll tell you this ; every term when I watch that school train go out I feel as if it 's taking two-thirds of me with it . ’ |
| 13 | When I spoke great tears fell from the eyes of the grey hound , more and more , heavier and heavier . |
| 14 | ‘ Last monsoon when I needed some musk to rub on a snake-bite , I did n't have to look far . |
| 15 | When I see other children going to school I feel so depressed and disturbed , my girl is indoors all day . |
| 16 | I start edging round the table when I see little Darius gleaming in the doorway . |
| 17 | So I was looking around the Beckenham and Bromley area when I found this place called Haddon Hall which was an amazing property . |
| 18 | ‘ Comment : When you make other people laugh , you defend yourself against them taking you too seriously . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's just that when you get two things happening like that , people say there 's going to be three , do n't they ? |
| 20 | When you reach some steps turn left and take the path to the beach . |
| 21 | When you hear some figure referred to as the federal deficit , that is after this convenient bit of jiggery-pokery . |
| 22 | You loathed it when you saw other people behaving like this and yet you could no more control it in yourself than you could any other automatic physical reflex . |
| 23 | When you want other people to do things for you , then style should be polite and you may need to persuade them to co-operate . |
| 24 | You let me make love to you fiercely , you have given yourself to me when you have good cause to hate men ! ’ |
| 25 | When you have one wheel stuck in bent tramlines while the other is banging through mud-filled , cobble-strewn potholes the size of small mineshafts , it sharpens up your steering technique no end . |
| 26 | Doing them altogether , I find difficult to do , apart from the weather point of view , if it could be fitted to two maybe , you know you co you go to somewhere in Church Stretton okay , it 's distant enough when you have one place to go , when you do the Wellington section , you 've got four , and I find it very difficult to work and chase round to children 's homes , to give it any . |
| 27 | When you have that calendar sent you , it 's a lot of money now . |
| 28 | I think that does give such programmes genuine mass appeal when you have ordinary people talking about their gardens — not huge grand gardens , quite often the kind of suburban gardens that a large number of the audience are familiar with . |
| 29 | Why do you pick up the evening paper and linger over tales of local gossip or distress when you have important tasks to carry out ? |
| 30 | I suppose that is what happens when you have different personalities involved . ’ |