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 .
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