Example sentences of "when i [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I finally went for the ( pregnancy ) test , I thought , this is it , this is the point where I go on the Pill . |
| 2 | When I finally took off the overtrousers , the fleece trousers I was wearing underneath were completely dry , which is what I would have expected from their three-layer Gore-Tex construction . |
| 3 | But when I finally got to bed again it was well into Monday morning and it was Monday afternoon when I surfaced and there was a policeman on the door and it had n't been a nightmare after all . |
| 4 | when I finally got to the start line at 9.41 am I started to pick my way through the crowd , with difficulty . |
| 5 | And when I finally appeared in my ship 's airlock , the only thing that Mala could find to say was , ’ Do n't you look a mess ! ’ |
| 6 | I was sure that I 'd be safe from then when I finally emerged from the city on the far side — it was n't likely that rats would abe allowed too close to the Divine Sanctum — but I could n't yet see any sign of a far side . |
| 7 | When I finally moved at the end of September , it was an enormous step in my life . |
| 8 | I stayed in hotels to begin with and when I finally moved into a flat , on the first night a rat ran across my chest . |
| 9 | I thought I 'd gone before I came out of my house but I had a feeling when I nearly got to their school that I ought to have again . |
| 10 | I 'd just turned right off the B1 150 at Fairstead when I nearly crashed into the back of this unlit car skewed across the road . |
| 11 | When I eventually got off the bus back in Maseru I nearly collapsed , such was my weakness . |
| 12 | When I eventually returned to Vienna to make music , I was completely relaxed within myself . |
| 13 | Railway stations are almost home to me now , I realized , when I eventually arrived at Victoria . |
| 14 | When I eventually arrived at the hospital I was feeling in the best of spirits and apparently shook the sisters by asking them to bring on the dancing girls . ’ |
| 15 | It was waiting for me when I recently returned from Namibia where lesbians and gay men are isolated and unrecognized , and have no solidarity network . |
| 16 | For one thing , I suppose I do regard it as the moment in my career when I truly came of age as a butler . |
| 17 | When I actually got to court there was more charges than there should have been . |
| 18 | Well er anyway as it , as it worked out , although I did a lot of s sloshing about , erm when I actually got to erm on to the four one four and I followed that through to the M one and straight up and I was running parallel with the M twenty five , virtually |
| 19 | ‘ There I was , merrily going about my own business , when I suddenly disappeared in a puff of metaphysics . |
| 20 | I think I must have been gradually going off into a faint when I suddenly thought of mother reading the telegram saying that I had been killed in action . |
| 21 | And so , from 1958 onwards , these characters became my dolls , and their way , of life and the houses they inhabited became so real to me that it was quite a shock when I occasionally returned to the place which had started it all , Wood Green , near Witney . |
| 22 | ‘ When I originally started with them I was playing bass on three or four songs . |
| 23 | I could come out top in my exams then when I never did at school , I never did anything much at school at all . |