Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb past] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eve was so strange , she could make up tales and then , when everyone had got interested , she would say , ‘ Fooled you ’ . |
| 2 | Erm , so Jan had these butties , she said oh I made them lovingly last night , tuna , mayonnaise and onion and er she said trust Viv to ring today like when I 'd made these butties ! |
| 3 | When I 'd completed this process I turned to the mirror to look at myself for a last time . |
| 4 | I had a letter in return to say she 'd come when I 'd accomplished all I had in mind . |
| 5 | I used to hide these three pennies because er not being used to having anything for nothing , when I 'd got two or three coppers , I 'd d I 'd find a little hiding place outside and this house had an outside wash house in the back and I used to hide them . |
| 6 | When I 'd sorted that out , I shrugged . |
| 7 | It occurred to me , when I got to know some of these families , that they really might believe that their position on the hill placed them nearer to heaven than the less privileged folk below . |
| 8 | When I had done that , I touched over the same areas again to strengthen a colour or restate an edge or detail as I felt necessary . |
| 9 | When I had to do that trip on my own . |
| 10 | Tony tells us about his lone stay in the Westmann Islands off Iceland when I had to leave four days earlier than him . |
| 11 | I promised myself a break with the crossword when I had written three pages . |
| 12 | Yet , when I had finished three pages , they ‘ were all right ! ’ |
| 13 | And when I had put these into a plastic bag that I found lying beside them under the dressing-table , I put my hand on her shoulder , about to shake her . |
| 14 | I wrote to my mother who lived up at Manzanita with her sister , Mrs. R. V. Hungerford , telling her how I was leaving my position and would write again when I had found some place I liked . |
| 15 | So , when I finished reading that explanation of it , maybe I 'll have a stab at it . |
| 16 | When I finished typing all the names |
| 17 | He did n't laugh when I kept scoring those ones did we now ? |
| 18 | I know where I was when I wrote assume superb , he assumed the Friends Provident policies were good |
| 19 | The experiment I was doing all those months ago when I began writing this book , which I described in Chapter 2 , involved using the sugar fucose as a precursor for glycoprotein . |
| 20 | When I came to rehearse this scene with him , we went through it and he said to me , " That wo n't do , you know , " and I was shattered . |
| 21 | So when I went to shut that gate after that |
| 22 | when I went to make some jam tarts . |
| 23 | I realized I just had to accept him for what he was , and when I learnt to do that , he did the same to me - accepted me without question , in all my imperfection , in all that made me unworthy of him . |
| 24 | But you can imagine my surprise when I angled said state-of-the-art bins to the street , watched the long black car as it rolled up and saw the self-same guy step out of it . |
| 25 | ‘ When I started taking those wickets last summer , I began did begin to think I had a chance of representing my country but , to be truthful , I did n't think it could be more than the England A side . |
| 26 | The there 's there 's there 's an interesting way involved in my mind when I started writing this in this changed format from last year . |
| 27 | Then after that , when I started writing more songs , people were saying ‘ Oh , that song of yours sounds like so-and-so , ’ which made me dig back to find out what they were talking about , back to music like The Beach Boys , The Beatles , The Rolling Stones , The Velvet Underground , Jimi Hendrix , Neil Young . |
| 28 | I had n't drunk more than a third of the cup when I started to feel dizzy and hot . |
| 29 | I did n't even know I had any kind of title until I went to prep school when I started to get these letters saying : ‘ The Honourable Charles ’ . |
| 30 | I think erm when I started doing low temperature physics about twenty-five years ago or so , the lowest temperature that had been reached was around about erm two milli-kelvins from absolute zero . |