Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb past] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was congratulating myself on my fitness when I passed a middle-aged German couple climbing up — with a good deal more spring in their steps than me . |
| 2 | I was doing some mental arithmetic , counting up what was in my wire basket , when I got a great dig in the backside . |
| 3 | Not even when I got a new baby was it . |
| 4 | I was on my third cup of coffee and looking around at the other coolies when I saw a familiar blue overcoat coming through the door from the street . |
| 5 | I was just going to look through it to find out what was happening in the passage when I saw a fishy eye fixed in the centre . |
| 6 | At about three o'clock in the afternoon , I was standing at the door of the inn when I saw a blind man coming along the road . |
| 7 | One day I disturbed three separate males and was feeling thoroughly frustrated and incompetent when I saw a magnificent bull , silhouetted on a ridge against the setting sun , a graceful , powerful body with a great sweep of spiralling horns . |
| 8 | I have had a bit of ‘ medical ’ excitement myself since I last wrote : first when I overturned a full supermarket trolley on to my leg , bursting a small artery with dramatically bloody results . |
| 9 | When I hired a private detective to test this hypothesis |
| 10 | My shorthand also let me down when I attended a local inquest . |
| 11 | When I had a small printing business in Stornoway several of my employees were crofters . |
| 12 | When I had a close look at it , I saw that the inside of its mouth , which should have been pink , was very pale and frothing . |
| 13 | Quite a come-down from the two-page list of duties required of me when I had a real job . |
| 14 | The next I heard was when I had a complete breakdown of Robert and Janet 's income erm with the breakdown of how a new settlement was was brought about . |
| 15 | ‘ Why go out with these Muslims ? ’ he said once , when I brought a Pakistani friend of Jamila 's home with me . |
| 16 | When I wrote a popular book recently , I was advised that each equation I included would halve the sales . |
| 17 | This was confirmed when I heard a Syrian soldier talking at a roadblock we encountered . |
| 18 | I was telling myself that it would soon be over when I heard a sharp crack . |
| 19 | I began to worry many years ago when I heard a young artist say at a Whitechapel Art Gallery discussion , ‘ I 'm in the painting business , not the explanation business ’ . |
| 20 | One event which has lived in my memory , and which I would not have liked to repeat , was of cycling home one evening ( I lived near Altrincham ) — and I was in the middle of Barton Bridge when I heard a German bomber overhead — I have never pedalled so quickly since , realising that I was in the middle of a prime target . |
| 21 | I was strolling through the local city centre , when I heard a thumping bass sound coming from just around the corner . |
| 22 | I was sitting in the sitting-room about to make a cup of coffee when I heard a huge bang and I thought the whole house was going to cave in . |
| 23 | At first I could n't see them , but when I heard a little quack I had a close look and saw them all there huddled together and trying to keep warm . |
| 24 | I was still arguing childishly against myself when I heard a little noise at the door . |
| 25 | One evening , I sat on the rocks at Land 's End , watching the sun set across the ocean , when I felt a sudden urge to find a standing stone circle which I 'd read about that day . |
| 26 | I had made two , maybe three sweeps of the pole , when I felt a wet slippiness beneath me . |
| 27 | My offending started when I became a habitual glue sniffer at the age of 12 and I began stealing to finance it . ’ |
| 28 | When I became a permanent presenter in Bristol , the main newsreader was Ken Rees , more recently to establish himself as a top foreign correspondent for ITN . |
| 29 | They when I when I became a full time employer er a full time employee with the union it was all more or less small bakeries . |
| 30 | Then that I got that book back when I became a full time official it was still in the still in the office . |