Example sentences of "[adj] when i [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 I was OK when I woke up , but when I remember Marie 's gone I start feeling sad .
2 With large numbers this can cause even worse handling and registration problems than for paper , and even , perhaps , extra complications if a disk turns out to be corrupt ( ‘ It was OK when I handed it in . ’ )
3 It got broken when I dropped everything last night .
4 I intend to make animal welfare one of my priorities in th United Kingdom presidency , as I made clear when I wrote to hon. Members on 27 February .
5 And I became interested when I heard of your interest in polio .
6 He suddenly looked interested when I arrived , and rubbed his leg in a rather strange way .
7 The overall effect from the picture was that if you got any closer you would be engulfed in fire ; I was staggered when I saw it .
8 ‘ She was very understanding when I ended the relationship , and we still remained great friends .
9 No , no yo yo i is n't it funny when I thought it is a fault , one of them discarded the right ?
10 ‘ Personally , ’ I said , trying to be funny when I did n't feel very funny , ‘ I think she 's had a lucky escape . ’
11 I wrote it on orange paper in blue ink and it all went horribly wrong when I photocopied it so I 've put an agenda on there right .
12 Seems I was wrong when I said there were just two common ways of arranging fuel and water tanks .
13 So I was wrong when I thought they were fantastically healthy and a good advert for the Jungle .
14 Why was it wrong when I came in ?
15 So a friend was embarrassed when I wanted to examine every object his family had made : the weathered pitchforks crafted from branching joints of trees ; strong rope twisted from straw ; bundles of sesame-seed stalks used as firewood after the seeds had been eaten ; hand-woven winnowing baskets , and heavy clay pots for keeping water cool in hot summers .
16 I had n't felt like this when I 'd seen him firing the shotgun .
17 Unpaid , I could drop this when I chose .
18 He was reading this when I got here , ’ she went on , holding out the telegram .
19 ‘ You could n't have mentioned this when I took a shot at him in the alleyway . ’
20 Newman himself recounts what transpired : ‘ The scene went something like this when I demanded her presence in my office :
21 It it seems a n and this when I saw this , I thought , Oh my God , you know , the I I P gets bigger every time I look at something
22 I missed this when I came to your house , ’ Maggie said quietly .
23 I had some experience of this when I lived at home , having to wait hours for the district nurses .
24 She added : ‘ I never thought I 'd be living like this when I married Charles .
25 ‘ You were n't like this when I married you .
26 I was still worrying about this when I pulled into the hotel at Huacho , the mist thicker than ever and my eyes so tired they felt as though they had been sand-blasted .
27 erm There is a general concern I think with multiple occupancy that there 's , a whole way of life of East Oxford is changing , and not for the better , and indeed I was part of this when I moved into the area ten years ago .
28 We could find no cause for this when I regressed him to an earlier period in this life and so I went on to regress him to what appeared to be a previous life .
29 R.B. Yes , another teacher mentioned this when I talked to her and I was saying that it seemed to me that it was a blind spot .
30 ‘ It was like this when I bought it .
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