Example sentences of "[that] when i [be] " in BNC.
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1 | I find that when I am stuck on a problem , a simple contemplation of different problem solving techniques can lead me to a new approach . |
2 | Neighbours and friends tell me that when I am racing you can hear the noise right down the street ; it is as if I am running in Dad 's front room ! |
3 | I only hope that when I am their age I will act a little better . |
4 | Dearest , I know that when I am away my darling goes out with others . |
5 | Now I know that when I am gone , you will be watching over my son 's welfare . ’ |
6 | I know that when I 'm playing live , to go from the bass to the guitar is tough ; to go from one song to the next and all of a sudden you put a guitar neck in your hand … your hand feels so big ! |
7 | Imagine that when I 'm trying to get the kids off . ’ |
8 | I do have to admit , though , that when I 'm working away from home it 's not a case of going out on the town — but going straight to bed to catch up on a good night 's sleep . |
9 | Oh , I always wonder about that , I never know whether it 's correct I mean it certainly sounds better as you said , she did n't take her hand away , but I always find that when I 'm writing something down , I 'm torn , if it 's dialogue I want to say they did n't , could n't and all things come in . |
10 | erm I find that when I 'm not being as assertive er I 'm not very good in a one to one situation thinking your answers back straight away . |
11 | ‘ It means that when I 'm with you I find it annoyingly hard to think straight . |
12 | ‘ So I 'll worry about that when I 'm thirty , ’ Ruth retorted , hitching up her bikini-top before loosening her long jet hair from a silk bandeau and shaking it free around her golden shoulders . |
13 | Now Guzzy tries to get in the vans and that when I 'm cleaning them . |
14 | Yes , and one of the great ironies is that when I 'm talking to students about the nature of history , one of the first things I try and say to them is ‘ Look , do n't have this idea that there 's a great bundle of documents lying in an attic , and this is the way that history works , that people make a sensational discovery and then they write a book about it . |
15 | This distrust of the social scientist is so deeply ingrained that when I was reading anthropology as an undergraduate and I was asked by my colleagues what subject I was reading , I knew that I would have to prevaricate or face problems . |
16 | This acquisition of special knowledge meant that when I was called to give evidence to the Advisory Council on Drug Abuse ( chaired by Baroness Wooton ) on the use of cannabis , I was perhaps more inclined to dwell on the symbolic dangers attributed to its use than on any alleged physical harm , simply because I was now aware that any reality in relation to cannabis use was more complex than could be contained in some easy binary of social value — medical debilitation . |
17 | First , I recall that when I was a theological student , having come from a fairly conservative church , I could not square up I Kings with I Chronicles . |
18 | ‘ I read that when I was sixteen — and it had , well , an almost mystic effect on me . ’ |
19 | I can say only that when I was at Bletchley the belief among my associates was that information had been received and that Ultra did not fail ; the intelligence it provided could not be fully acted upon for fear of betraying Ultra itself . |
20 | Dear Boy , It must be very difficult for you sometimes I expect not having anyone and having to do all the shopping and cooking for yourself I know that when I was working I certainly could not have managed on my own , coming home tired and then making dinner your own dinner and then going upstairs to do some more work , what sort of life is that , though I know all about that because of course I did do that for three years almost , and I know how much happier I was when I knew there was someone waiting for me and having the dinner ready and keeping the house clean and all those things , or perhaps you people do n't think those things are important . |
21 | The point of the story is that when I was using softer rods and he favoured stiffer ones we both caught , relatively speaking , no fewer fish than we do today . |
22 | So it was that when I was asked to contribute an account of Elizabeth Taylor 's novels to a book of reference I remembered these words and wrote that her motive power was Love : ‘ Not the love that is a four-letter word , nor yet anything so theoretical as Christian charity , but most certainly a great virtue . ’ |
23 | ‘ My mother ’ , Ivy said , ‘ told me that when I was a child , she spent all the year looking out for small things to put in my stocking . |
24 | ‘ Mother Francis gave me that when I was ten . |
25 | It was the first time I 'd seen anyone in labour and I made a silent vow that when I was married I was n't going to have any babies if this was how you had to suffer . |
26 | Life became so stressful that when I was making The Power Game the doctor put me on Mogadon and I became hooked for a while . |
27 | I belonged to them in the sense that when I was interested in something I tried to understand it as far as possible and , of course , even tried to make use of it . |
28 | Well there was one sad part was n't it that when I was on my in training during the and the rockets and so in classrooms and had a lecturer talking to us and erm this lad come in with a message from the teleprint and erm give it to the instructor , and he 'd call a name and the chap would go out . |
29 | You know the thing is I feel that when I was tried to get the theatre board and I have contacted various people on the board I have never been listened to . |
30 | All the same , I doubt very much that when I was in a comparable situation I would have had the same faith and determination that Tom did . |