Example sentences of "when i [be] [verb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , at best , this is unreliable , as when I am thinking of your beautiful wife while discussing with you the state of the nation . |
| 2 | When I am fishing on my own I only weigh them straight away if they appear to be over 9lb , and leave the weighing until I pack in if they appear to be less . |
| 3 | An when I am talking to meself in poetry I talk , |
| 4 | ‘ And he went to the degree of saying , when I pressed him , how are we going to stay in this business ; he said , Albert , for all I know right now when I am talking to you , we could be finished with the business ; I do n't know . ’ |
| 5 | The words probably , likely and unlikely litter the text , even when I am talking about what is widely regarded as fact . |
| 6 | The call that particularly mystifies me , when I am subjected to it on journey after journey , is the admonition from catering staff to intending consumers of their junk food to be sure to bring their small change with them . |
| 7 | When I am lying with him , and he is inside me — that is the moment I know for sure . ’ |
| 8 | Did you get that bit erm , when I was speaking to you about how everybody hates you and stuff ? |
| 9 | When I was chided by someone for seeming oblivious of ‘ the magnitude of the accounting operation ’ I said that it was because of my consciousness of the magnitude of all other operations that I dared to make these demands of Mr Whalley , who perfectly understands in any case . |
| 10 | David Thacker recalls a slightly different version : ‘ When I was shot down it was my first encounter with the enemy . |
| 11 | ‘ When I was staying with your sainted mother in Siena , small hotel in Via dei Cappuccini , and we were just leaving , I handed a postcard to the hall porter to stamp and send to England . |
| 12 | Cos when I was telling about my music she said well you have n't got a video in that room , I said well no not yet I have n't . |
| 13 | ‘ But when I was reunited with them , I 'll admit I just broke down and sobbed my head off . ’ |
| 14 | There 's only one thing that struck me when I was reading through it but a as I say , we we got to look at this from point of view are we going to date this as it lies at the present moment and add to it pieces that we want , or do we start off by having the pieces o i its its now whe w w |
| 15 | I thought when I was looking at her talking and I thought , you 're a school mistress . |
| 16 | In fact , barn owls are reckoned to be one of the hardest breeds to hand-rear and train , and they are n't recommended for beginners — though I did n't know that then , What I did know was that I 'd probably lost the battle with this owl before I 'd started : I suspected he would be impossible to train , but I was so hooked on the idea of having my own bird that I could hardly drag myself away when I was looking at him . |
| 17 | When I first saw it , when I was looking at it , I was amazed at these huge great hooks and eyes , and I thought ‘ gosh , they ca n't have been very good at making hooks and eyes if they had to make them so big ’ . |
| 18 | Well erm when I was living with him |
| 19 | But I mean , when I was living with her we just had all these arguments cos , you know , I just never got any peace ! |
| 20 | When I was living in my former role I went along to a lesbian meeting , thinking that might be what I was , but what I wanted was a relationship with a woman as a man . |
| 21 | When I was debating with myself whether to take up athletics full time I decided , on the spur of the moment , to go up to Nottingham to talk to her about it . |
| 22 | I had a curious brush with the law myself once when I was sent by my employer to attend a day seminar on drugs to be given at the local university by a police sergeant . |
| 23 | When I was leaving for my mother . |
| 24 | Er when I was asked for my opinion afterwards erm er I said er well I I quite honestly I was n't er interviewed . |
| 25 | When I was asking for my referred leads yesterday , what did I say ? |
| 26 | When I was shown into his little office in the administration block Gyggle was sitting reading something . |
| 27 | And then , of course , I was n't able to attend much when I was left on my own after Mother and Uncle Tommy died and I had all the milking and farmwork to do myself . |
| 28 | When I was left on my own after the death of Uncle , my beasts became my family , I suppose . |
| 29 | Peter : Why did you go backwards when I was coming to you ? |
| 30 | It just leapt up like a demon in my head when I was staring at you … like X-ray eyes … |