Example sentences of "when i heard [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was deep into a descending spiral when I heard a tap at the window against which I was sitting . |
| 2 | In the evening I sat by my fire , listening to the wind blowing outside , and had just started reading when I heard a noise . |
| 3 | As I remember it was one morning a little while after my father and Miss Kenton had joined the staff , I had been in my pantry , sitting at the table going through my paperwork , when I heard a knock on my door . |
| 4 | We were well past him when I heard a bottle smash . |
| 5 | When I heard a friend was willing to part with some of his things , I swapped my Game Boy , games , light and case for 3′ tank , internal filter , two heaters , and most important of all , a breeding pair of Angels . |
| 6 | I believe I had walked a little way along the roadside , peering through the foliage hoping to get a better view , when I heard a voice behind me . |
| 7 | All I know how to do is write songs , and that 's what I want to do because I would like people to feel as good as I did when I heard a song for the first time . ’ |
| 8 | Rather exasperated , I began to get out and had one foot still on the running board when I heard a woman 's voice call : |
| 9 | ‘ When I heard the verdict from the doctors it was a case of panic . |
| 10 | I was dialling it when I heard the door of Flat 2 open and I glanced over my shoulder to see Fenella , who had added pyjama trousers to her stripey shirt , and Lisabeth , in an ankle-length woollen dressing-gown , creeping down the stairs like they were doing a commercial for a new edition of A. A. Milne books . |
| 11 | I was reading some gimcrack book about economics , full of those pictograms that fall half-way between diagrams and drawings , when I heard the thudding of a diesel engine running under the roar of the gale coming in off the sea and over the whirr of the fan heater that was marinading my feet . |
| 12 | I was in a flower shop when I heard the noise . |
| 13 | The floor was covered by a large mosaic and I was really getting interested in some of the antics of the guys with beards who were scattered all over it , when I heard the tap-tap of her feet in the distance together with a heavier , more measured tread . |
| 14 | When I heard the clatter of horse 's hooves , it seemed an enormous , ringing sound , filling the empty sky . |
| 15 | When I heard the stories about quite a tyrant |
| 16 | I was returning to the house with a mixing drum when I heard the crash . |
| 17 | ‘ I was shutting the front door when I heard the phone ring . |
| 18 | I was dismayed when I heard the Home Secretary 's statement . |
| 19 | Michelle , 20 , said : ‘ I could n't believe it when I heard the radio and they gave a description of a little girl dressed in her mum 's nightie and shoes . |
| 20 | My buttocks began to freeze and I was wondering whether to return when I heard the clop of the horse 's hooves and glimpsed Sir John riding vigorously by . |
| 21 | I had gripped the gnome 's face when I heard the weaving , low registers of Leon 's clarinet . |
| 22 | It was the longest afternoon that I had known and it was worse when I heard the sound of tea being prepared downstairs for this made me even more hungry . |
| 23 | ‘ When I heard the Cup competition had no sponsor , I approached Executive Support Manager Allan Paterson who passed the request on to Production Director Peter Robinson . ’ |
| 24 | And when I heard the guards were going to cut our rations yet again … ’ |
| 25 | I was leaning into the car to get the toddler out of the baby seat when I heard the shot . |
| 26 | I was therefore surprised when I heard the hospital on the radio today saying that this case was a very isolated incident . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ When I heard The Sugarcubes ' cut , I realised this vague concept could really work . |
| 28 | ‘ When I heard The Sugarcubes ' cut , I realised this vague concept could really work . |
| 29 | ‘ We did n't , but when I heard the whisper about the picture I decided to beef up the budget , ’ her father explained . |
| 30 | I was a believer until about my fourteenth birthday , when I heard an Easter service on the radio . |