Example sentences of "[noun prp] when i [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah I know , I saw Heidi when I was |
| 2 | No but er I saw Heidi when I was on my way down to the grubber and Heidi had a slightly massive armful of chocolate , I was going what are you doing , she said I 've got ta go and make Sophie sick |
| 3 | " Do not stray from the path " , said a notice I saw in the Cheviots when I was walking the Pennine Way . |
| 4 | I remember being rather keen on Bert when I was about fifteen . |
| 5 | ‘ I spent much time in the States when I was a girl . |
| 6 | He completed a Pathfinder tour and came to Warboys when I was the High Master there . |
| 7 | I came to England when I was 9 , that would have been in 1961 , and that 's when I saw the world for what it 's all about , I was still a child but I saw it , the black and white thing , it was a reality . |
| 8 | " The emeralds fetched enough to gain the physician 's goodwill and to pay for board and passage back to England when I was ready . |
| 9 | I came to England when I was seven , yes ? |
| 10 | Mick , Mick when I was , when I was working down there in er the machine shop , him and erm Ian you know the bloke who one of the engineers ? |
| 11 | The Liberal Democrat leader said : ‘ They are on roads I would not drive along in a Land-Rover when I was sober . ’ |
| 12 | Bored , I ran away from Downside when I was sixteen and spent two days in Paris , sleeping rough , before hitch-hiking home . |
| 13 | They every time , when he rung up Radio Bristol when I was about having coffee the other morning . |
| 14 | Erm Mi Michelle when I was going to the bank . |
| 15 | My thirst for real travel was to have its very modest beginnings on the railways of the Midlands when I was at B.P. My journeying consisted of little trips to neighbouring towns within a radius of fifty miles north , south , east and west of Bletchley . |
| 16 | On the other hand , I have discoed the night away in Marina di Massa and had payment waived in Copenhagen when I was visibly kroner-less . |
| 17 | ‘ I first came across Virginia Woolf through Orlando when I was a teenage person and it was the first time that I felt really addressed by a writer , ’ she says . |
| 18 | Melford was where he was in Canada when I was born . |
| 19 | I had left Jamaica when I was seven years of age and had lived in England for nineteen years . |
| 20 | ‘ I can remember getting walloped 6–1 by AC Milan when I was with West Ham , ’ he added , ‘ and I was so shaken I was too frightened to look at people for weeks . |
| 21 | " Well , I did have Miranda when I was very young . " |
| 22 | He wanted ‘ something really special , with some of the atmosphere that was at the Haçienda when I was going there ’ . |
| 23 | We may have met a long time ago at Rotherfield when I was on a weekend outing from school , but I would n't expect you to remember — it was at least 10 years ago and I ca n't imagine I was a memorable schoolgirl ! |
| 24 | I thought things had changed in Sweden when I was able to use the same team in successive games for the first time in six years . |
| 25 | I am allowed a say on this question of standing up at football matches because I first planted my feet on the terraces at Barnsley when I was five and spent the next 15 years or more rooted to the spot . |
| 26 | ‘ I was born in Cheshire but emigrated to Australia when I was only 4 ! ’ |
| 27 | She says : ‘ We emigrated to Australia when I was eight but I returned to England seven years ago to write songs and met Keith . ’ |
| 28 | I came to Britain from Cyprus when I was six and , when I was 12 , my mother volunteered me for the job of interpreting for a pregnant neighbour who needed to talk to a doctor . |
| 29 | I had my first glimpse of the sea on a Sunday School outing to Redcar when I was about ten . |
| 30 | My first real contact with the military was when I went on a familiarisation course to the Parachute Regiment depot at Aldershot when I was fourteen , and spent two days living in the mess , where I looked around the regiment , met serving officers and had some basic interviews with retired Colonels , who were in charge of selecting the future leaders of the toughest regiment in the Army outside of the Special Air Service . |