Example sentences of "[adv] when i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps when I get tired of flying , I 'll look underwater ! ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps when I get a minute to meself we can have a picnic of our own , ’ he suggested . |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps when I get back to London I 'll invest in a pet , a dog , or maybe a cat , and then I can pour my heart out whenever I want to . ’ |
| 4 | Perhaps when I leave here I 'll join the Class War party , though I 'll have to insist they spare Ellis when the revolution comes … ’ |
| 5 | perhaps when I see |
| 6 | ‘ That was something I missed terribly when I retired and doing this race for the first time is a way of replacing it . ’ |
| 7 | I am also rather confident of speaking literally when I say ‘ It was enlightening ’ or ‘ I discovered that … ’ , since ‘ enlighten ’ and ‘ discover ’ are not commonly used directly of lighting up or unscreening ; but what of ‘ It was illuminating ’ or ‘ I uncovered the fact that … ’ ? |
| 8 | I started using cow much when I did n't have any plaster or cement . |
| 9 | ‘ As I told you , I did n't go out much when I worked in London , but I 've got a silk dress which I wore on the few times I went to the opera . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , because … well , naturally when I took the job I did n't realise that I would come to dislike him so much . |
| 11 | This made for a softer , more innocent and ingenuous ‘ Dora ’ , but perhaps what was needed was a slightly sharper , more bristly Dora with a hidden vulnerability , which came more naturally when I gave her a North London accent … |
| 12 | I allowed you to ride alone when I had no knowledge at all of your ability . |
| 13 | And I remembered our last day together when I 'd promised to bring you to the Peacock theatre and robbed you of your heart 's desire by forcing you into my bed instead . |
| 14 | Sorry what I was gon na suggest on that in a way this is kind of preempting something else , you know , the , the bit on the agenda for it , I always put them in its back , back together when I write , erm |
| 15 | Well I was just tidying myself up , och just a week lick of lipstick and a puffa blusher basically when I noticed that my mascara was on its last legs so I had to remind myself to stop by at Frazers Innoxa counter as any other tearproof bar theirs brings me out in lumps , so to cut a long story short I just nicked in the sidedoor — honest to god I was festooned with carriers laden down like a workhouse donkey — and I 'd to cut through the shoe department . |
| 16 | Jump in the air and basically when I tried what he was doing , I mean , it turned out he 'll tell me what it was . |
| 17 | I slipped up very foolishly when I allowed Frisby to volunteer . |
| 18 | When the midwife interrupted the prayers to inform him he had another daughter he replied tersely , " I 'll attend to it all when I 've finished here . " |
| 19 | ‘ You 'll ‘ take care of me ’ because you see yourself as getting it all when I breathe me last , do n't you , eh ? |
| 20 | I told her there were extenuating circumstances and would tell all when I got home . ’ |
| 21 | I 'll only be gone for half an hour or so , she reassured herself : plenty of time to finish it all when I get back . |
| 22 | Only when I ordered the boatman to take us to Syon did my master break free of his reverie . |
| 23 | Dust lay thickly over the cracked flagstone floor and only when I ascended a dangerous staircase did I find a solitary reminder of the business that helped to make the Damianis one of the richest Arab families in Jaffa . |
| 24 | ‘ Only when I laughed , ’ he retorted . |
| 25 | Oh , we 'd felt like this for years but we would n't acknowledge it , and then we started meeting casually and standing talking for ages , but it was only when I met him and he was so upset about the baby and — and other things . |
| 26 | only when I like a D is that pardon me , ah pardon me no oh er , er Margaret Thatcher knocked at the door the other day |
| 27 | I met George only when I came here , and it was a pleasure for me to meet such a good and conscientious man of the people . |
| 28 | On the handshake it was only when I got notified that I 'd been awarded the gold badge , I realized I never got my hand back that day . |
| 29 | Mm I mean he looked at me like I was a bit silly and it was only when I got it and looked he 'd got after Christmas written |
| 30 | Only when I keep getting her to do all this typing for me . |