Example sentences of "[modal v] [to-vb] when i " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , Olive that used to work when I worked for Laura Ashley 's |
| 2 | It is necessary to have a lot of different stages , so that you 're coming to it fresh each time , and I used to find when I was younger that that would mean putting it aside for several days . |
| 3 | She stroked my hair then , very gently , the way she used to do when I was a little kid . |
| 4 | I hummed to myself , something I always used to do when I wanted to smile or laugh , but thought the better of it . |
| 5 | You go from er Hopeworths , Mason and Burnhams , John , Gill and Russells , Walker Brothers it was er a terribly industrial , well you could fi Road used to be all granite sets in the road , there was n't the , because there was so much traffic went up and down er it was all made of granite sets when I , when I was a kid , but my , shall I tell you what I used to do when I was a kid for my Saturday morning ? |
| 6 | Right , now you 're doing what I used to do what I used to do when I started , okay ? |
| 7 | because I used to have when I used to go around these for breakfast I 'd always have an orange juice and my cereal and then my fried breakfast it 's the only time I 'd eat a fried breakfast . |
| 8 | Oh when I used to think when I was a kid and the stuff I used to eat , you know there 's |
| 9 | ‘ I used to faint when I was a young girl , just like that . |
| 10 | But even people who are concerned about me say things which seem to be complimentary ; a teacher remarks that I have become ‘ a sylph ’ lately , Mum defends me to my grandma as ‘ naturally slender ’ , and Dad makes jokes about my skinny legs — reassuring jokes , the sort he used to make when I was little , before I became ‘ a young woman ’ and embarrassing to him . |
| 11 | No one explains it to me , and I 'm bewildered ; I feel like a doll , lying on the hospital bed , paper thin — the little dolls I used to make when I was younger . |