Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [adj] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mm , very good , yeah , I was spellbound when I first saw that , saw that about , I think the first time about three years ago |
| 2 | When I first realised that most of the bites were not simply ‘ line ’ bites ( and you can test this easily by casting in a baitless hook ) I tried every conventional trick in the book to hit them . |
| 3 | When I first learned that the line was bad , I thought it possible — likely , even — that the caller was n't Kemp at all . |
| 4 | I think it 's really really well written and and I 'm very happy about it because I 've got it out of my system because when I first started that that was my aim . |
| 5 | Jeffrey : When I first recognized that I was homosexual , I could recognize my feelings but I did n't know actually what you were supposed to do — not just to meet people , that was difficult enough , but I did n't know what to do physically . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , when you first hear that , it 's real impressive , all these guys chasing round the fretboard . |
| 7 | When she first said that there were guests coming round , she said , Martha she did n't have any hips . |
| 8 | She shared the perplexity she had felt as a young officer when she first discovered that a certain number of votes were required to elect a General . |
| 9 | To spend corporate money telling us that ‘ it is n't so ’ when we all know that it is , insults our intelligence as well as endangering our lives . |
| 10 | Why , when we all know that loneliness is a paralysing form of human misery , do we go on as if we thought that the deepest need of rational individuals was to be independent of one another ? |
| 11 | Why women particularly , when we all know that men are increasingly victims of adultery ? |
| 12 | You indicated to me when we last met that it was n't . ’ |
| 13 | I froze when they first said that in the town where we lived for his firm job . |
| 14 | The view taken here is that parents may not be able to cope , and certainly they will feel this when they first discover that their child is handicapped . |
| 15 | Before such people can act together , a kind of telepathic feeling has to flow through them and ripen to the point when they all know that they are ready to begin . |
| 16 | He says that when he first learned that his father had been in prison he expected the crime to be something on a grand scale , something melodramatic , like murder , something novelistic , like ruining in bankruptcy thousands of trusting small investors , as the Town & County Bank had done in Cranford , or Mr. Frothingham in The Whirlpool or Ponderovo [ sic ] in Tono - Bungay . |