Example sentences of "[vb past] when i [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It barked when I drove in . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You remember how he acted when I came out ? ’ |
| 6 | Otley demanded when I got in . |
| 7 | Well , that 's what I thought when I came round . |
| 8 | It was not at all sweet for Alfred Noyes I learned when I came back to the boat , for he had a bucket of slops emptied on his head . |
| 9 | ‘ The first thing I did when I came out was try to explain to the kids that we were n't bad people . |
| 10 | Well I did when I came out , I played with erm Jackie and Kelly . |
| 11 | you never guess what Andy Spence 's mum did when I went up there for dinner once ? , it 's vile |
| 12 | As I did when I found out what he 'd done . ’ |
| 13 | I did when I found out I got two hundred and fifty poonds for it |
| 14 | ‘ I said when I came back to Williams that it was a two-year plan , so probably if it is going to happen it has got to be this year because of the way it 's been structured . |
| 15 | She said when I came in , there 's only two in front of you . |
| 16 | And I said when I walked up the other day |
| 17 | Several informants in my study articulated the view that their parents preferred them to speak British English : Mom — mom likes me to speak mostly English , she said when I go out into , you know , upper class society , and I start speakin " Patois dey might not understand , and take me as an idiot . |
| 18 | ‘ I remember the first thing that I said when I found out was ‘ Right , I 'm never getting married ’ , ’ says Christien . |
| 19 | ‘ There have been times since it ended when I gave up hope of ever eating food like this again . ’ |