Example sentences of "when i [am/are] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when I am kicked in the groin in my father 's house , when I am taunted and called ‘ nigger ’ and ‘ black bastard ’ , when I am arrested as a result of police harassment , at those times I am ashamed to be British . |
| 2 | When I say , ‘ Now I see it as a duck ’ , am I saying that I have a certain Lockean visual sensation — that is , that the figure appears to me , in a non-concept-dependent sense of ‘ appears ’ , in a certain way — which I have found I always have when I am led by the accompanying text to apply the figure in a certain way ? |
| 3 | The only times I do not want to be a writer are when I want to be a painter , and the only times I want to be a painter are when I am taken by the cast or mobility on a person 's face . |
| 4 | ‘ When I am shaving in the morning I say to myself that if I were a young man I would emigrate . |
| 5 | The Americans could take this a little further , but after Schweinfurt they had to stop and lick their wounds ; and so this leads on to the inevitable topic when I am confronted with the audiences I meet in all those places . |
| 6 | When I 'm fishing from the bank , and the water is choppy , there are few floats better than Drennan ‘ Driftbeater ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , when I 'm listening to the drummer I 'm listening much more to the bass drum than I did before , because that 's what I have to play with . ’ |
| 8 | In in school when I 'm copying off the board words with like K in the front but like they start with a C but I usually put a K and then the teachers go over them and say like this is a C sort of you know careless and all that . |
| 9 | Sweet shop , sweet shop , sweet , I never know what to buy when I 'm looking at the chocolate compartment . |
| 10 | ‘ Even when I 'm playing in the reserves it 's a chance to impress , ’ he said . |
| 11 | ‘ Even when I 'm playing in the reserves it 's a chance to impress , ’ he said . |
| 12 | When I 'm going through the recommendations with you . |
| 13 | But as I say as paying the er r I , I 've seen them when I 'm going round the site er I got an option from the firm , I 'd be allowed time off my work , my actual work on the , on the , on the site , to go round and collect their unions dues . |
| 14 | As Noel Blanc , who has a collection of 20 classic cars , explains : ‘ When I 'm driving down the street in my hot-rod , people are waving at me and giving me the thumbs up . |
| 15 | When I 'm put beneath the ground , every penny I own … every piece of property , every square inch of land , every stick of furniture and even the clothes on my back … it 's all to go my son . |
| 16 | When I 'm working in the theatre , I tend to steer clear of TV dramas , though I have a soft spot for P D James and Ruth Rendell thrillers . |
| 17 | When I 'm walking to the shop I think a bit about moving and that . |
| 18 | I can hear , when I 'm walking down the street I can hear the birds singing . |