Example sentences of "[verb] when i [vb past] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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1 | Stafford , who lost in the semi-finals at Beckenham last week to British number four Chris Bailey , said : ‘ I had a feeling I would win when I woke up . |
2 | He says when I fell off I was relieved just to get off it . |
3 | Not surprisingly , Ken was apprehensive about the position I might inherit when I touched down . |
4 | Low and behold when I got back they were waiting for me you see ? |
5 | Yeah , I had old Rosie here done when I got out . |
6 | The crunch came when I found out she was sleeping with a couple of other boyfriends , and I discovered I did n't actually care . |
7 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
8 | Do n't know what the time is , I did n't even look when I clocked in . |
9 | Aye it was sti , yes it was still going when I came up here . |
10 | Sam was cleaning the same damn glass he had been cleaning when I came in . |
11 | I have often wondered what my guest would have thought when I got back if I had told him I had just been beaten . |
12 | they 've had when I went in |
13 | I seen curtains open when I got up . |
14 | I did n't know what to expect when I came back to school . |
15 | And that 's where I was lying when I came round just now . |
16 | If he was claiming a grant in yours , I did I claimed when I went back to college , my twenties I actually claimed a grant but my father claimed income tax relief claimed under him . |
17 | My Ma often did n't know where to look when I came out with things about Uncle Geordie and Auntie Julie . |
18 | ‘ If I were on holiday , Nigel would be the first person I 'd contact when I got back . |
19 | It barked when I drove in . ’ |
20 | ‘ You remember how he acted when I came out ? ’ |
21 | At the agreed rate of 10¢ per column inch it meant that if I could provide two 25-inch columns per day , which was relatively easy for me , I could earn about $30 per week which was $6 more than I was getting when I gave up the staff job . |
22 | ‘ What were you saying when I came in ? ’ she said . |
23 | Important items of equipment have mysteriously gone missing : a headtorch , which was on my head as I returned to the car at the end of a Wasdale winter expedition but was nowhere to be found when I arrived back home ; or the key , map and information to a hut in Wales for which my club had recently gained reciprocal rights — all three items vanished between locking up the hut on our departure and arriving back home in South Cumbria . |
24 | Commenting on a literacy , or ‘ English ’ class , Mathew , a male user who had had a ‘ normal ’ education , said : ‘ They were just sat about talkin' ; some of 'em were drawin' when I went in . |
25 | Otley demanded when I got in . |
26 | He was down and refuelled and re-armed when I got back . ’ |
27 | Well , that 's what I thought when I came round . |
28 | He told me to buy him cigarettes and stamps when I went out to the shops . |
29 | I went on further , and their lightness and gleam had gone when I looked back for the last time . |
30 | It was gone when I went back for it . ’ |