Example sentences of "[adv] when i saw the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ He said , ‘ I was dying for a pint so when I saw the pub I decided to land and come in . ’ ‘
2 I was just going in when I saw the sign .
3 My heart was pounding and realisation sank in when I saw the needle being prepared to go into MY arm .
4 Anyway when I saw the fire
5 I sat there a long time , bored , with a cold bottom , and I was about to open the pub door to tell him I was going home when I saw the organ grinder trundling his barrel-organ down the street .
6 Yet when I saw the city , from the top of a sun-blasted ridge , I wondered if the farmland was n't preferable .
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