Example sentences of "when a [noun sg] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a friend asked me the car 's name I answered at once — Anastasia Fyodorovna Romanova , Princess of all the Russias . |
| 2 | This fact could not be concealed any more than I could conceal , when a friend invited me to stay with her during the holidays in Yorkshire , that my parents could n't afford the train fare . |
| 3 | I just went from person to person and asked if they needed help when a policeman asked me to come and take a look at Johnathan . |
| 4 | I was about to leave when a thought struck me . |
| 5 | After the fifth anchoring I was beginning to despair , when a thought struck me — I was forgetting the scope of the dinghy 's painter . |
| 6 | I nearly lost my life again , when a lady picked me up to put me in the boat . |
| 7 | After she had squeezed blood out of me and squirted it into little bottles , she said ‘ Thank you very much ’ — I thought ‘ That was n't so bad ’ and was halfway out the door when a nurse redirected me to a bed and rolled up my sleeve . |
| 8 | I was standing outside the Beverly Wilshire Hotel , in Los Angeles , talking to Cary Grant , when a woman saw me and she shrieked , ‘ You 're him ! |
| 9 | After it was all over there was another strange and thrilling event when a car whisked me to the News at Ten studios where I was interviewed by someone in Leeds . |
| 10 | When a waiter asked me , and the people I was eating with , sentence ( 2 ) in Task 2 , we understood him , even though , in textbook terms , his words might seem to be nonsense . |
| 11 | Because I made a mistake once when a teacher told me that there was n't prejudice in this school . |
| 12 | At school , I 'd write rude poems for my mates so , when a teacher turned me on to Linton Kwesi Johnson , it was like ‘ Yes ! ’ ’ |