Example sentences of "[conj] when [pers pn] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm here to be made love to when you need to , or when you think I need to , just to cover up . |
| 2 | ‘ My career is precious to me — and you knew that when you married me . |
| 3 | The committee became so unnerved at the thought that the club premises might be under threat that when I said I knew how to deal with these bounders , but it could only be as chairman , they swallowed it hook , line and sinker . |
| 4 | But the doctor said that when I recovered I would have to practise less and go out more often . |
| 5 | But greater than they is a sort of compulsion which comes on me , so that when I invent I scarcely know what I am inventing . |
| 6 | Most of the living accommodation at Low Birk Hatt faces north and I always thought that when I moved I would definitely have a south-facing house . |
| 7 | Okay so what did I have here so that when I differentiated I got X ? |
| 8 | Of course , he did n't realize that when he married me . |
| 9 | My father was always very distant with me — so that when he died I felt I hardly knew him . |
| 10 | McAllister , who had put the doll down , and was now fetching out her work basket to embroider pansies on some fine lawn dresses made for the bazaar by the aforesaid ladies , said , ‘ I did n't mean to become involved , you know , but Matey has been so kind to me — when not slave-driving me , you understand — that when she asked me to accompany her I had not the heart to refuse , and strangely , after I began to work for the bazaar , I found that it was most rewarding . ’ |
| 11 | I do n't know why ’ Constanza told me that when she told me so little else . |
| 12 | ‘ I think what I am trying to explain to you , ’ she said , ‘ is that over the years I became so completely cowed and dominated by this monster of an aunt that when she gave me an order , no matter what it was , I obeyed it instantly . |
| 13 | Cos I remember once when they asked me at work to deliver the annual speech you know the man that asked me he says er , you know , they 've gone round everybody else and nobody else would do it and would I do it , and I said good lord , that were my first reaction , and I realized like all the company secretaries lo lord , so I did very well there |
| 14 | Well , it 's a lot better than when you saw me last time ! |
| 15 | And when they lay me in my wedding dress on that table , I 'll have my revenge on him ! ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Some friends who were with me on holiday in Romania talked about the idea and when they contacted me this year saying they were going to do the ride I told them I was more than willing to join them , ’ said Karen , who teaches at Applegarth Primary School , Northallerton . |
| 17 | Men who could use these things comfortably would have to be three metres tall , and when they came I really did n't want to be there . |
| 18 | There were alot of helicopters going overhead and when they came I have never seen children move so fast . |
| 19 | But there were five of them there one day in the porch and when they saw me they gathered up their bottles and began to go , except one . |
| 20 | And when they do I shall be ready to move . ’ |
| 21 | And when they hit me with the INSET thing it was the summer term , the first half of the summer term and I was beginning to fray at the edges , as far as I 'd just got things going , and it was just like something else on top of a lot of pressure already . |
| 22 | And when they banned me from playing cricket for a month , they actually did me a favour . |
| 23 | And when they rang me about the killing and somebody said , ‘ your friend 's been murdered , ’ I said , ‘ You 're talking rubbish . ’ ’ |
| 24 | and when we moved I think we had a new insurance policy to cover and the others became mine . |
| 25 | But it put too much pressure on the relationship , and when it finished I realised that he 'd resented what I had done . |
| 26 | Leslie was disturbed to hear of this latest small trauma : ‘ It distresses me , ’ he wrote , ‘ to think of you being chivvied about in the way you are ; after all , the army supports me , and when it moves me thinks a wee bit about me . |
| 27 | And when I said I was he held out a massive paw that gripped my hand as though in a vice . |
| 28 | My dad used to take two sugars , and when I said I was giving up sugar in tea and coffee , he reduced it to one . |
| 29 | And when I return I shall no doubt make another purchase and so on . |
| 30 | ‘ I kept thinking today how lucky I was , you see , how blessedly fortunate , with all I have , all that is so comfortable , all that makes me so — so much happier than I was , and then this evening I went to the Rectory and when I returned I was in my room and I looked out at the darkness and I thought of you and how lonely you must be after all the company and society you have known just recently and I thought — I thought — ’ |