Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newman , what was the weather like when me met in Lübeck ? ’ |
| 2 | When I ran into Kevin Sheedy , I just looked at him . |
| 3 | When I ran in Pinsk in 1985 , children in the street started to follow me , until officials told me to use a park . |
| 4 | My aim was to secure a good head of each species and , in consequence , except when I shot for meat , I shot selectively and seldom . |
| 5 | ‘ When I realised after months that I was n't ready to quite , it was a case of ‘ okay , I 've opened the floodgates , how do I close them ? ’ |
| 6 | When I lived at home my mum was cool about whatever I wore ; her only considerations were practical ones , like insisting I wore ten million jumpers if I went out in the cold . |
| 7 | She 's very muddly and disorganized and I can see so clearly where she falls wrong … when I lived at home it was always a bit of a nightmare because I was always trying to get things straight . |
| 8 | I had some experience of this when I lived at home , having to wait hours for the district nurses . |
| 9 | Cos she says you would n't lend me none when I lived at Arthur 's , I says no because every time I lent one at our Arthur 's he swore black and blue it were his . |
| 10 | I 've been working in Cleveland , US for 4 months now , and am amazed that I get more up to date information on the week 's activities than when I lived outside London ! |
| 11 | The late fifties and early sixties , when I lived in Windsor Great Park , were creative and critical in manner : the established order was questioned ( sometimes cynically ) , but it was assumed that well-directed idealism could change human society . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , when I lived in Sheffield I was a founder member of the North Midlands Labrador Rescue . |
| 13 | Mind you I would n't recommend having them next door like I did when I lived in South London . |
| 14 | When I lived in South London unscrupulous property developers were buying up the-freeholds of converted houses at auctions and raising the ground rents to astronomical figures in order to force people to sell back their flats to them . |
| 15 | Yes , I knew him when I lived in Falmouth five or six years ago … ’ |
| 16 | I have only ever once paid out good cash for rocks , in an emergency when I lived in Reading ( good for free lime-rich gravel , but no local rocks at all ) and it hurt dreadfully . |
| 17 | When I lived in Dublin at the end of the Second World War , one of my friends was an obsessive film buff whose dramatic recall , frame by frame , of scenes such as the Odessa Steps sequence from Battleship Potemkin or the final chase in Fritz Lang 's M often hypnotized even the drunks in the bars we frequented . |
| 18 | Dear Mr Tatchell When I lived in Bermondsey , until my family were bombed out while I was fighting to protect my country from outside evils , we had a saying , Bermondsey was a place where men were men and women counted as ‘ manholes ’ and members of the ‘ Middlesex Regiment ’ would not be tolerated . |
| 19 | Even when I played through proxies he must have still known it was me , because one day , 'bout the end of my second year on Mars , I woke up with the blues just like you did . |
| 20 | ‘ When I played for Bangor we loved putting one over on Linfield or Glentoran — and nothing seems to have changed . |
| 21 | ‘ I was too thin when I played for Derry . |
| 22 | ‘ When I played for Transvaal I found my role very different to that employed for either club or country . |
| 23 | The idea of writing it , Mariana says , struck her ‘ a few days after that wonderful ‘ love doubles ’ in London , when I played with Bjorn against Chris Evert and her husband , John Lloyd . ’ |
| 24 | She held my hand when my dad died and my coat when I fought with Margaret Scholey . |
| 25 | ‘ I quickly realised the size of my task when I drove into York for home games , ’ says Ward . |
| 26 | But when I drove to London to collect her as we 'd arranged , I found that she 'd had a phone call less than an hour previously to say that Barney was ill . |
| 27 | ‘ When I served in France I witnessed such abominations outside Poitou . |
| 28 | When I got into work on the big day I found out he 'd been arrested at the weekend . |
| 29 | When I got into money difficulties in Woking . |
| 30 | When I got into bed alone . |