Example sentences of "[noun] when i [vb past] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tell you something I was amazed at erm the reading book he appeared with , Fluff and Nip and goodness knows what that went out with the ark when I came out of college , I do n't know whether they 're all reading that or whether it 's just sort of found them and must of been just perhaps a one off or something , but , I was amazed |
| 2 | ‘ I knew very little about Irish League football when I came back from Nottingham Forest , except that Linfield and Glentoran were the top two clubs . |
| 3 | You could no longer do the things I 'd taken for granted , like making a cup of tea and sitting down for a gossip when I came in from college . |
| 4 | ‘ And in case you do n't believe me I would n't still have been covered in snow when I came in if I had ’ |
| 5 | He told me that he liked my playing and that he would give me a ring when I got back to Milwaukee , and about three to four months later we actually formed a band and went on tour . |
| 6 | It was daylight when I woke up . |
| 7 | and did I tell you I bumped into Jean when I went down |
| 8 | ‘ There was a message from you on the tape when I got back last night . |
| 9 | Well , sex was the last thing on my mind when I got out . |
| 10 | A mass of mail when I got back here — replies saying NO for example for the part time post of editor of the Episcopal Church paper up here and a NO from a firm opening up a new range of discount grocery stores . |
| 11 | A television play or four weeks away in repertory was OK , but I finally lost my agent when I turned down an interview for a job in June , ‘ because I 'll be picking the gooseberries ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ I was a drummer when I started out and so right now I know what a group of seven is , or three or five or eight . |
| 13 | I went for a midnight walk last February — it was snowing , I just got the urge , it was like a fairy tale , clean and soft — and they were standing in the hall when I got back , eyes frantic , fingers pointing , accusing me of — what ? |
| 14 | Knowing this to be his likely mood when I brought in the tea yesterday afternoon , and being aware of his general propensity to talk with me in a bantering tone at such moments , it would certainly have been wiser not to have mentioned Miss Kenton at all . |
| 15 | I had n't been in a very good mood when I started out on this journey . |
| 16 | Alas , US Gold have retained this irritating quirk , and you 've only three credits to play with ( I tried putting a 50p piece into my Commodore when I ran out , but it got jammed between the keys ) . |
| 17 | They did n't even notice the smashed front lights and the vicious new welt on the Boomerang doorframe when I slinked back to Hire-A-Heap the following day . |
| 18 | I thought for a second she was smoking so I avoided her and I do n't think she noticed me. when I came out , there was Shelima 's science book in a wash-basin smouldering away . |
| 19 | I said my farewells to Salome and her sisters and shook hands with Erich , who gave me a sheaf of letters to airmail when I got back to Hong Kong . |
| 20 | This much I could see from the outside when I went down to have a look at it . |
| 21 | ‘ It must have been lying in the ferns and took fright when I came along . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ The dawn chorus was on the doorstep when I got back , clutching a bloody great bunch of half-dead daffodils . ’ |
| 23 | No , but I noticed the balloons when I came in , I thought , they 've still got those balloons up . |
| 24 | You see , one of the reasons I mentioned his name last night was that he was n't in the room when I came back — the boardroom , you know , where the party was being held . |
| 25 | Well I looked through all that stuff when I cleared up this morning . |
| 26 | He was reading a newspaper when I went in , and scowling heavily . |
| 27 | And , ’ he went on , before Marc could interrupt , ‘ you happened to be in Paris when I came over for them . |
| 28 | We could n't get a babysitter , so I was expecting a cold TV dinner thrown at my head when I rolled back . |
| 29 | I believe I gave Joe a bit of a shock when I walked up to the table and played a few shots with him . |
| 30 | It was no particular shock when I found out ; I had expected the test to be positive . |