Example sentences of "when i [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean even when I smoked I did . |
| 2 | When I married I left the classes but now , all these years later , I joined them again . |
| 3 | ‘ I felt terrible when I realised what had happened . |
| 4 | He said afterwards : ‘ I left the line-up when I realised I had to stand and shake her hand . |
| 5 | And it got worse when I realised I did n't know where they were going for their lune de miel . |
| 6 | I needed your help , Claudia , and when I realised you 'd disappeared I knew you 'd try to leave without seeing me again . |
| 7 | Running behind him just seemed effortless and when I kicked he did n't go with me and he gradually dropped back as I kept the pace up . ’ |
| 8 | When I accepted he suggested I might like to give him a certain sum to help the wine flow . |
| 9 | ‘ It was hell when I discovered you 'd left that morning without saying anything to me , not even an angry goodbye ! |
| 10 | ‘ I was alone in this new search as I was alone when I discovered I loved my own sex . |
| 11 | ‘ When you said something about the real tragedy for anyone facing a handicap is when expected support is withdrawn , then yesterday at your flat I realised that you thought I 'd walked out on Jennifer when I discovered she had MS . |
| 12 | It was so hard to see you suffer when I knew you 'd always been the most gentle , caring person in my life . |
| 13 | So when I knew I had cancer and was facing death , I still could n't pray to the God I associated with the churches . |
| 14 | That was , when I knew I had to come back . |
| 15 | It seemed a good idea to have a companion when I knew I had to face a Spanish maniac ! ’ |
| 16 | When I saw him stood upright before me , I could not be sure to what extent he was hunched over due to infirmity and what extent due to the habit of accommodating the steeply sloped ceilings of the room . |
| 17 | Yes a row of houses and of course when I saw I looked out the door and there was this plane swooping down like that and it seemed so low because they were aiming an and the bomb fell in the cattle market and , and I threw myself on to the stone floor , you see , and er and presently one of the ambulance men came round to my office door and he said , are you alright ? |
| 18 | I should have realised that you were n't a real wizard when I saw you did n't have a staff . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ When I protested he accused me of being lippy . |
| 20 | Lucy knew she had to tell him something , so she said , ‘ She got mad with me when I admitted you 'd taken me for two bush walks . |
| 21 | But we ca n't haunt places we 'd never been to , which is a bore for me , because I was so young when I died I 'd hardly been anywhere . |
| 22 | When I finished I took the lift down to the typing pool . |
| 23 | I had to get up because when I walked I found it was easier . |
| 24 | I just recall that I got a bit of a shock when I heard they found him on MOD property . |
| 25 | It 's personal because when I heard what had happened to young Leakey , I lost my rag . |
| 26 | I was shaking with fright when I heard what happened . ’ |
| 27 | And I thought of what Jim Collins said when I heard what happened over at Stonham . |
| 28 | My first thought when I heard I 'd got the part was : ‘ Bang goes my knighthood ! ’ ’ |
| 29 | When I heard I 'd got it , I was stunned — I did n't think I 'd got it . |
| 30 | ‘ When I heard I had been chosen for the full squad , it was a bit of a shock , but it really was a dream come true . ’ |