Example sentences of "[noun] when i [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have always loved dogs and I became involved with the association when I met a lady who was also involved in puppy training . |
| 2 | ‘ Once I was driving up High Street East in Sunderland with a local priest when I saw a furniture van ahead with its ramp down . |
| 3 | I stop at the traffic light when I have a visual experience which others would describe as seeing a green light . |
| 4 | I did not find any improvement in actual dollars spent on maintenance when I compared an object-oriented system written in 350,000 lines of C++ with a comparably complex product written in 1.25 million lines of C code . |
| 5 | Stick to Dijon , although I have used Colman 's mustard and horseradish mix to good effect when I wanted a slightly sweet one . |
| 6 | To speak more intelligibly , I never have made any arrangement of plot when I commenced a work of fiction , and often finish a chapter without having the slightest idea of what materials the ensuing one is to be constructed . |
| 7 | I was just going to look through it to find out what was happening in the passage when I saw a fishy eye fixed in the centre . |
| 8 | AT THIS stage of the last election in 1987 I was in the middle of writing a column when I had a call to say that the Sunday paper in which it was to appear had closed down . |
| 9 | And there have been days I 'd have liked her at home when I had a headache or one of the nuns had roared at me at school . |
| 10 | Three days later I was limping back from the village and was about half a mile from home when I saw a movement in the hedge . |
| 11 | Our spirits were already beginning to flag when I received a letter from Eliot dated 2 June : |
| 12 | At about three o'clock in the afternoon , I was standing at the door of the inn when I saw a blind man coming along the road . |
| 13 | Ronald Duncan , whom I came to know about this time ( our first meeting took place when I made a bicycle tour of Cornwall in the summer of 1947 ) , spoke of having received a telegram from Eliot cancelling an engagement and saying that he had to ‘ bury a woman ’ . |
| 14 | Wrapped in a white towelling robe I was making my way back towards my room when I encountered a tall bearded man clad only in a towel . |
| 15 | I was deep into a descending spiral when I heard a tap at the window against which I was sitting . |
| 16 | My frustration came to a head when I read an advert in a well known weekly which was for an attractive 1948 Series One the price of which has VAT added How can this be ? |
| 17 | No , I could get water when I found a Ladies . |
| 18 | Kind people ON Friday , May 28 , I was on my way home to Maghull from Central Station when I had a very nasty fall on the escalator . |
| 19 | On the one occasion when I made a direct appeal to her , in connection with the battle against the closed shop for journalists which I describe later , her response was gratifyingly supportive and it was no fault of hers that she was unable to persuade Lord Hailsham to a course of action that might well have altered journalistic history . |
| 20 | ‘ He was youth manager at Wimbledon when I held a similar position at Palace . |
| 21 | One event which has lived in my memory , and which I would not have liked to repeat , was of cycling home one evening ( I lived near Altrincham ) — and I was in the middle of Barton Bridge when I heard a German bomber overhead — I have never pedalled so quickly since , realising that I was in the middle of a prime target . |
| 22 | ‘ I had never heard of the area when I met a teacher from there in 1973 but we became friends and I started to visit . |
| 23 | I 'd just squawked the new transponder code when I saw a helicopter ahead at two o'clock . |
| 24 | I was about to head for the lift when I noticed a chink of light at the end of the corridor . |
| 25 | Times me , and hands over a quid when I cut a fraction of a second off my record — can you imagine ? |
| 26 | ‘ I was on my way down to Les Hiboux when I saw a light in the trees . |
| 27 | ‘ I left the States and was travelling in Italy when I met a photographer . |
| 28 | This was made very clear to me early in my fieldwork when I offended a neighbour by trying to make explicit return of food that had been given to my wife and me . |
| 29 | I was on my third cup of coffee and looking around at the other coolies when I saw a familiar blue overcoat coming through the door from the street . |
| 30 | One morning I was driving along the road when I saw an old man frantically waving a walking stick at passing cars . |