Example sentences of "when [pers pn] saw me [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , it 's a lot better than when you saw me last time ! |
| 2 | ‘ So I watched you for a while , and when you saw me watching , and you looked nervous , as though you thought me a criminal , about to steal all the stock , it amused me to tease you , try and discover why Donal thought you special . |
| 3 | Some of the men , when they saw me looking at them , smiled shyly , and as if automatically scratched their swollen codpieces . |
| 4 | I heaped much obscene verbal abuse on various owners to the extent that several begin to leash in their ugly mutts when they saw me coming . |
| 5 | I 'm frank and candid by nature and so perhaps not surprisingly my career was blocked , former friends learned to cross the street when they saw me coming and I quickly became a non-person ; a communist speciality . |
| 6 | People had gone up to a house and been knocking on the door waiting for someone to come because the light had come on and they thought there must be somebody in because they switched the light on when they saw me come up the drive , and these are visitors . |
| 7 | But when they saw me walking out of the sea , they welcomed me warmly with cries of astonishment and delight . |
| 8 | When they saw me winning , the clubhouse went crazy with people cheering and whooping . |
| 9 | The garage attendant , who almost called in a SWAT team when he saw me arrive that morning , had a few more palpitations when he watched me climb in the back seat and start peeling off my biker 's gear . |
| 10 | He came after me , but he stopped when he saw me go inside ( as I instinctively knew he would — the only safe place from him was down here ) . |
| 11 | When he saw me looking out of the window he smiled , and , looking up at the sun , said : |
| 12 | He was obviously embarrassed at his lack of preparedness and when he saw me glance involuntarily at my watch he grew more agitated , pulling his pipe from his mouth and putting it back in again , tucking the hammer under his arm , rummaging in a large box of matches . |
| 13 | I shall never forget his expression when he saw me arriving on my bicycle with its empty pannier bags . |
| 14 | His mouth dropped open when he saw me standing in front of him , carrying a gun . |
| 15 | When he saw me running he thought he must be late , and he started to run , too . |