Example sentences of "when i [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only when I got on the ground and tried to walk did I realise that I had a bullet through the top of my right ankle . |
| 2 | It was when I got into the Law Courts and began a long series of litigation lasting twenty five years " . |
| 3 | I was on two bags a day when I went to see me GP and I was on between a quarter and half a gram when I got to the hospital . |
| 4 | It was about eight-thirty when I got to the Maple Leaf , London 's only Canadian pub . |
| 5 | Practically the first thing I saw when I got off the train and walked along those roads again was Hairy Back and his dog , the Great Dane . |
| 6 | It 's relevant because at a time when I lived through the means test the one that , the real one , er then that would have been a very serious point because you could switch and turn and twist the means test in such a way that people would be continually at a disadvantage and the nearest I can think of what the effect of that was , living in a very working town , a very industrial working town and it was nothing like as bad as the one in London more recently , was the homelessness of cardboard boxes cities in London . |
| 7 | This hypothesis was roughly confirmed by what I saw when I came to the quayside , or what had been the quayside when the lake existed . |
| 8 | It was about noon when I came through the trees out on to the shingle of the beach with the chapel . |
| 9 | What the crew were not aware of was when I went into the starboard turn and dive without knowing that my aileron controls had been severed , and the fortunate miss of the four throttles made all the difference to the immediate arrest of the desperate attitude of " Charlie " . |
| 10 | What was even ‘ funnier ’ was when I went into the car i thought Id switch it to radio 5 , to see how they could manage to report on a different game as usual . |
| 11 | ‘ It was just at the end of the First World War when I went into the seminary . |
| 12 | My most pressing experience of Wigg as a tipster was on one of the rare occasions when I went to the Derby . |
| 13 | Cos I know when I went to the warehouse |
| 14 | ‘ I got a shock yesterday when I went to the mortuary , ’ Constance said . |
| 15 | I felt this even more vividly last week when I went to the launch for Robert Harris ' book , Fatherland . |
| 16 | Yesterday when I went in the shop , we get underwear and things like that |
| 17 | That 's when I thought of the mud wagon , the light spring coach Mr. Mendez and I had taken to Delgado 's that day . |
| 18 | I mean erm you know erm when I go to the London Group erm we all know that erm actually er there 's a kind of , there 's an inner feeling you know well we 've got the right computers , we , we 're the you know , we , we believe computing and we , we 're very sorry you know we 're erm we may not actively despise them , but we , we 're sorry that they have to bother with such an awful operating system and everything else . |
| 19 | That 's why when I , when I go round the video shop on my own I usually go Jordans . |
| 20 | Fag before school , before I go in , dinner time when I go round the back |
| 21 | But the green smell used to be there and it was strong enough to make me think of English summers when I looked at the sky . |
| 22 | In that horrible moment when I looked across the room and realized that poor old Eddy was dead I certainly felt something . |
| 23 | We can work on the assumption , anyway , and I 'll make discreet inquiries when I get to the office tomorrow . |
| 24 | But think of me tonight when I sail across the sea . |
| 25 | But I think he did probably just , because when I got up er when I co , you see when I come down the stairs I can see through that window look |
| 26 | 1After the first few days , when I come into the room , Birdie is down on the floor of the cage , running back and forth , looking out over the barrier that holds in the gravel . |
| 27 | ‘ Every day , the first thing I do when I wake in the morning is go to the window to look at the pond . |
| 28 | I did n't at the time know where to , but when I had only about two months to go I too was posted , to Scampton near Lincoln , and who was the first person I saw when I booked into the Waaf Guard Room ? |
| 29 | He 's a gem , always full of good humour , and he 's been on a few times , now , but this particular moment was when I noticed in the studio lights a glint of trouser zip . |
| 30 | Today , when I returned to the house , Denis said : ‘ Jack rang . |