Example sentences of "[noun sg] when i [be] " in BNC.

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1 So I have now decided to put the theory out of my mind and rely on rhythm when I am putting . ’
2 ‘ I just took a flyer when I was at Stiff , ’ says the gently-spoken rock demon through a head cold .
3 I have often referred to my own fear when I was first required to make a horse jump a fence .
4 ‘ My brain has been involved with violence when I was a kid so much that , when I close my eyes , I see burning houses .
5 I was split between boxing and football when I was 16 and , at one stage , I wanted to turn professional boxer and thought that , as I was on Norwich 's books and I could n't get a pro boxer 's licence till I was 17 , anyway , I 'd play football for twelve months and then steam into boxing [ he was a double ABA junior finalist ] .
6 Yeah I used to play a lot of football when I was a young guy like you
7 He explains : ‘ This is because Alex Ferguson helped me on my way in football when I was 14 years old , and taught me most of the things I took with me from Aberdeen . ’
8 GEORGE HERRINGSHAW/ASP Bryan Gunn : ‘ Alex Ferguson helped me on my way in football when I was 14 years old , and taught me most of the things I took with me from Aberdeen ’
9 I shout at the car when I 'm getting cut up
10 I had my first car when I was 10 , with a chauffeur .
11 I mean I , I never went in a car when I was a child .
12 ‘ I used to enjoy playing the fool in a car when I was young , ’ he said .
13 Yeah , the way the ice formed on this car when I was trying to get the snow off off the windscreen and the ice and everything that was er , no I personally think it 's too cold .
14 I 'm not , if you want a car you , you blasted run it , I did n't have a car when I was young
15 My earliest memories are of Low Birk Hatt , which Daddy bought at auction when I was three , at what turned out to be an inflated price .
16 I wore my new boots in the snow when I was abroad this Christmas and now a white mark has spoiled the leather .
17 hard to tell , I just er had a quick cup of tea when I was there
18 Basically because the produce manager who was training me was so scared of me making a cock up , he never never left my side when I was .
19 He said : ‘ The only problem I get is a shortness of breath on one side when I 'm jogging .
20 We 'll have a longer talk when I 'm home again . ’
21 ‘ Only if you promise not to talk Man 's Talk when I 'm in the kitchen making gagging noises so that you think I 've got an Espresso machine , ’ said Sorrel , eyeing him suspiciously .
22 I must explain that I have no phone in my study , to avoid interruption when I am working , and that I take phone calls in the dining-room …
23 Maybe it lasted half an hour , that sleep , it could n't have been longer because there was still no daylight when I was woken , although he did n't mean to wake me .
24 Again , there were difficulties with Equity when I was selected and the whole thing had to go to arbitration because the company stood out for the casting it wanted .
25 I ca n't ever recall even meeting a priest when I was at United , though there always seemed to be plenty of them around .
26 I mean there is grotesque — Bruce Rogers was doing grotesque when I was only two feet tall Did he ever use a grotesque any time in his life ?
27 You all so easily forget these names now , oh I do n't remember it , but the other , oh I remember old , eh mate of , he was second in command when I was in India , and he , he , he was a right character , he was a right chara
28 ‘ A smalltime crook who got caught in the crossfire when I was working on a story a couple of years ago .
29 ‘ I used to think that I wanted to be a lawyer when I was a little kid ! ’
30 He might have had it for some long time , I do n't know , but I came across it in a drawer in the small bedroom when I was putting his clean linen away .
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