Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun sg] when i [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can only race for the title when I 'm happy with the whole team around me . |
| 2 | I always looked for the kitemark when I was buying things . |
| 3 | ‘ Did you make sketches of me through the spy-hole when I was undressing ? ’ she asked . |
| 4 | Tell me something ; were you always prepared to sleep with me to get the jade , or was that a ploy to throw me off the scent when I was getting too close ? ’ |
| 5 | They hold as high positions as that and they run ministries , and I 'd like to add that in Kuwait the number of women deans in the Kuwait university is the highest in the world , so the woman is working side-by-side by the man , and we are very proud of them , we always have been , and especially after the invasion when I was in Kuwait on the fourth day the people who went in the streets chanting against the Iraqui invasion were the Kuwaiti women . |
| 6 | My eye fell on a page she had left on the kitchen table the other day and I had noted , before I could avert my eyes , a pretty scholarly history of my conversion to double-knotting , after an incident when I was unable to get out of the train at Greenwich one evening and found myself being carried on to Maze Hill , because someone was standing on the trailing lace of my shoe . |
| 7 | I saw one forlorn notice saying " Sergeants ' Mess " , and was about to explore the rest of the camp when I was stopped by a shout . |
| 8 | In one week I listened to the English boy singing the praises of my dark colouring and frizzy hair , felt him kiss me on the cheek with obvious pleasure whenever I cooked a meal and when I came in from work , or when we sat watching television together , and found him waiting for me at the end of the road when I was late back for some reason . |
| 9 | My bedroom , for instance , had a ghost that used to come through it every night — it was n't a visible ghost but it was audible — and I used to see the door open at the other end of the room when I was in bed and then would hear this ‘ clunk clunk ’ … . |
| 10 | My opposition goes back to 1979 and to the work done in the Department of the Environment when I was in it on the production of the 1981 Green Paper . |
| 11 | It was n't , it was n't much of a subject when I was young , is it , is it a necessary part of the school curriculum ? |
| 12 | ‘ I fell out of a tree when I was four years old . |
| 13 | Editor , — A Esmail and S Everington 's short report reminded me of a situation when I was executive dean of the medical school of the University of Manchester in 1970 . |
| 14 | The idea of the vats of the mind reminds me of an occasion when I was walking on the Appalachian Trail in Pennsylvania with some friends , who showed me an oak gall . |
| 15 | It attracted me like a magnet when I was a youth , and soon as I could leave school I was up at the course for a caddying job . |
| 16 | ‘ I worked for a bit when I was about eighteen . |
| 17 | And I felt like I remember sometimes feeling as a child when I was doing something a bit difficult , a bit daring . |
| 18 | ‘ No , I came across the letter that had been enclosed with the money when I was going through my father 's papers after he died . |
| 19 | We 've , into the village , we lived out in the countryside till I was eight , and we come down into the I should say town should n't I , we come down into the town when I was eight and I was there till I was twenty two , and I came up here , when I got married . |
| 20 | Really she was just working out her guilt for having thrown me under the wardrobe when I was six weeks old . |
| 21 | As he told the NSS last year , ‘ All the great reformers and responsible people did n't dare pop their heads above the parapet when I was saying , ‘ Let's junk some of the rubbish , let's talk , let's get some real debate back . ' |
| 22 | I had an experience with a bike when I was very small a girl up the road was given a bike and I had quite quietly learnt how to ride a bike more or less . |
| 23 | ‘ I started out with a dream when I was 13 to be a musician … |
| 24 | I got into a band when I was 13 playing melodic punk . |
| 25 | If I ca n't still clamber up a mountain when I 'm 55 , subject to health and having both legs of course , I want to be put down humanely . |
| 26 | Although the bolts were thick , I still bent in the middle when I was lifted and carried , a man at either of my ends . |
| 27 | ‘ They do n't feel a thing , and I always put them back in the lake when I 'm through . ’ |
| 28 | In the toilet when I was with Lynne . |
| 29 | Yes , because er in the university when I was studying at home , we have not er this tutor system like here and so it 's really strange , but I think it 's a good idea of , er talking to your lecturers as equal people . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm not allowed in the prop-room when I 'm in costume , ’ Stella said . |