"When I proposed, I used the words of Gabriel Oak.
When I proposed this to Patterson, he wasn't quite sure.
When I proposed marriage to someone with a song, Lou Reed did the work for me.
When I proposed to my wife, I warned her, 'You're marrying a tugboater.
When I proposed visiting the apartment again — this time with a notebook — she politely demurred.
When I proposed this to William Shawn, the former New Yorker editor, he said, "Well, well, all right.
"When I proposed marriage to her, at a quiet romantic table with a bottle of champagne, she replied: "My God!
When I proposed the idea to Stereolab, we were in London, staying at Southern, the studio that gave our label its name.
"When I proposed the idea, they told me, 'Either this will be a very important painting, or it's in the worst possible taste,'" he said.
When I proposed to Blahyi that evidence for his death count seemed scant, he said, "I wish it was nobody at all.
When I proposed building a whole new campus in the Manhattanville section of West Harlem, the idea was that we needed space not only for the present but also for future decades.
