Example sentences of "[adj] when [pers pn] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was very calm when she rang me from the hospital asking for her mourning clothes . |
| 2 | I have got to try and help them at times like this when they need me . ’ |
| 3 | I have got to try and help them at times like this when they need me . ’ |
| 4 | He acknowledged this when he told me in fluent English that he wanted to do a post-graduate degree in biology in the States . |
| 5 | ‘ I was doubtful when you told me about sharing your house with two young vets , but now I think you were right . |
| 6 | You make me feel old when you call me Mrs U. ’ |
| 7 | I am a 39-year-old man weighing 11 stone and I was trying to cuddle my nine year old when she picked me up and threw me across the room . |
| 8 | ‘ Word had got round that I was wearing red , but I think the guests were relieved when they saw me , and realised my dress was n't too outrageous , ’ says Alison . |
| 9 | I was experiencing something very like despair , which was not altogether relieved when he turned me towards him and said , " I 'd love you if you were as bald as a coot . |
| 10 | It 's better when you send me to my room when I 'm naughty . |
| 11 | Yes okay , right , a bit better when you see me |
| 12 | ‘ It was great when he asked me to join his band . |
| 13 | But the children are quite sincere when they tell me we are the closest family they know . |
| 14 | ‘ I thought he was sincere when he told me he wanted to stay in France . |
| 15 | I was withdrawn and sullen when he bade me farewell . |
| 16 | ‘ Ye looked startled when ye saw me , ’ the man said . |
| 17 | I was shocked when he told me the truth . |
| 18 | I was dead pleased when she told me but yer see , pal , yer 'll 'ave ter 'ave anuvver fink . |
| 19 | I tried to look pleased when she told me that Prentice had been ringing at half-hourly intervals since mid-afternoon and had left a multiple-choice list of numbers where I could get him that evening . |
| 20 | I was pleased when he asked me to do the test-flying programme for him and I had no qualms in agreeing , as I knew him to be a meticulous engineer . |
| 21 | " I was amazed when they told me what I could bring . |
| 22 | I was amazed when they attacked me . |
| 23 | His mouth dropped open when he saw me standing in front of him , carrying a gun . |
| 24 | My family were very worried when they saw me . |
| 25 | He looked so innocent and worried when he stopped me . |
| 26 | ‘ Collins was unbeaten when he faced me and he did n't look the same fighter coming off a loss . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I knew for certain when you showed me that photograph , and I realised it was Gaston , not Fabien whose picture she had kept all those years . |
| 28 | I grew a little apprehensive when she informed me that I would see witches and some ugly things , after which I would see my grandfather and other long-dead relatives . |
| 29 | ‘ Darling , I was n't completely asleep when you drove me home . |
| 30 | To a young doctor like myself , these were my ‘ valuables ’ — the Zeiss Ikon microscope in the scuffed leather case , its precious lenses protected from dust by silk covers ; the glass-lidded box of stainless-steel instruments — retractors , forceps , hooks , scissors and needles ; my much-thumbed copy of that heavy-going but essential tome , Gray 's Anatomy ; manuals of pharmacology and pharmacy ; Belding 's Textbook of Clinical Parasitology and Strong 's Prevention and Treatment of Tropical Diseases , both of which I 'd bought at the last minute in the hope that the young man in John Bell & Croyden in Wigmore Street was right when he assured me that they provided ‘ the answers to all tropical problems ’ ; and some bound volumes of the British Medical Journal which I had picked up cheap in Charing Cross Road . |