Example sentences of "[adj] when i [verb] [adv] " 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 | ‘ Personally , ’ I said , trying to be funny when I did n't feel very funny , ‘ I think she 's had a lucky escape . ’ |
| 3 | Why was it wrong when I came in ? |
| 4 | He was reading this when I got here , ’ she went on , holding out the telegram . |
| 5 | For ‘ safety ’ reasons , the people I mention will not be spoken of by their true names , but I can explain more about this when I come home on leave around April . |
| 6 | I still think of this when I rip up an old vest for a piece of silver-polishing rag . |
| 7 | But the pitch was wet when I picked up a swag against them at Bradford . |
| 8 | ‘ I was pretty saddened when I came away from the doctors . |
| 9 | Well in the fifties , forty years of age was hugely old , I mean my dad at forty when I remember back was like a really old man at forty in those days . |
| 10 | It 's always dark in morning in winter — it used to be dark when I got up to go to the building site . |
| 11 | ‘ It was very dark when I got up today , ’ I began , trying to speak distinctly but without raising my voice . |
| 12 | It was nearly dark when I woke up to the sound of Marcus calling me . |
| 13 | She was also mightily relieved when I gave up wearing sweaters on TV-am and reverted to jacket and tie . |
| 14 | The mortar team in the orchard were delighted when I turned up with ten fresh fish which were cooked immediately . |
| 15 | and then it 's right warm when I come in . |
| 16 | Four and six when I went down Nottingham to work , at the box place , Henry 's I got seven and six a week . |
| 17 | and it was right on six when I got up |
| 18 | ‘ I feel sad when I do n't see you . |
| 19 | With the work on the campaign and the success we 'd heard she 'd had with it , would she find me too limited when I got out ? |
| 20 | I was dismayed when I woke up to the fact that the plan was not to wait or extend the building but to send twenty people and their children away to start another church . |
| 21 | Because there was no one at the bottom end , but they 've , they 've got all those extra people in it , it was really frightening when I look back , but the , the reason there could have been , there were er nineteen thousand at the Sunderland match but it was an all ticket game so they restricted the crowds somewhat . |
| 22 | I 'm pretty confused when I come out the other end . |
| 23 | And erm I think I was about three when I came back here . |
| 24 | Well that , that 's why I think I went down so hard when I did n't get that job cos she said , I , I took , I took the erm , I went , I was the first , to go , first of all I did n't put in for this job it 's one that 's been laying around since last September , I wrote to , kept to St. Mary 's for this mental health thing and I got in touch with this Mrs and she said I 've got nothing I can offer you at the moment but I , I will be in touch and I went down the job centre one day and erm , there was this thing to say that they wanted mental nurses |
| 25 | ‘ I should like to marry Tory when I grow up , ’ he told Marie decisively during a rainy afternoon which drove the children in to the chilly shelter of the Aberknowe kitchen . |
| 26 | She was out bloody cold when I got there . |
| 27 | The night is cold when I get out of the car . |
| 28 | I 'm not always very good at saying what I mean , except at work , that is ; I 've been to Europe and the States but never to Nineveh and Distant Ophir ; I do n't have much time — literally — for the arts , though I 'm not against them in any way , you understand ( sometimes there 's a nice concert on the car radio ; like most people I read a book or two on holiday ) ; and I do n't give much of a thought to my clothes beyond looking smart at work and feeling comfortable when I get home . |
| 29 | It was late when I reached home , almost midnight . |
| 30 | I just fall into bed any old how , it 's sometimes so late when I get back . ’ |