Example sentences of "[vb base] when i [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and then , as I say when I was sixteen well erm when I left Needham School , you see , I passed through . |
| 2 | With the viewfinder on the camera I had to set the distance and hope when I was shooting , that the shark was at that range . |
| 3 | I have never seen a hunt in progress , although I recall vaguely as a child being taken to watch a Meet when I was visiting relatives in Piercebridge . |
| 4 | " She gave me a sweet one time when I was a kid , a bag of Quality Street she had . |
| 5 | One of the another thing that I remember when I was in er they come to the er delegate meeting in June . |
| 6 | I am the only child of elderly parents and I suppose when I was young they were over-protective and old-fashioned . |
| 7 | ‘ This was on the morning pre-dawn patrol when I was scrambled for an unusual low early morning recce . |
| 8 | at the the time I think when I was n't being assertive and when I was n't the difference was the person was younger than me and I was being assertive and then when I perhaps was n't and like said you feel after that you 've let yourself down . |
| 9 | I think when I was n't there they used to come in and feed them and the girls all used to come round and bill and coo over them . |
| 10 | But I think when I was young we used to say that er the population about here was five hundred . |
| 11 | The proportions are different , but I think when I was there there was one woman to every eleven men , so that even in the arts subjects there were a lot more men than women . |
| 12 | BELVILLE : I fancy when I was of Pamela 's age I was pretty near as good as she . |
| 13 | ‘ I used to hear your father preach when I was at Oxford . |
| 14 | repair when I were forty five . |
| 15 | and would hang about for two or thr I mean when I was on the dredger them men would st they would come aboard the dredger and wait there , do nothing until the boat came up the river . |
| 16 | I mean when I was a boy young Willy Carton all the business men of the bloody town |
| 17 | Because what is done , I mean when I was in hospital his mum used to that try and pick up |
| 18 | This was certainly the case with Mrs S. , the mother of one of my teenage informants , born in rural Jamaica about 1930 , who moved to London about 1960 : I 've never work — I 've never really work when I was back in de West Indies my husband work , I worked when I came over here and I [ took a long time ] to get a job — because I could remember work at de Post Office and I when I pronounce my words you know too [ soft ] dey say dey do n't hunderstand — according to dem dey do n't hunderstand me , my haccent maybe it 's my haccent or what dey don " understan " it or ting an " I feel like I 'm speakin " the same English like over here . |
| 19 | work when I was fifteen , and I was away then for a while and then after the war when I come back I was working at at Cruisbruk . |
| 20 | Er you see when I was , this would just be at the start of the First World War , oh damn I have n't put a switch in have I ? |
| 21 | What did you say to me on he phone when I was talking to Tracey ? |