Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] in [noun] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean in fact when it 's sold to tenants it 's sold at erm a fraction of it 's real value . |
| 2 | Thus , on Sunday , I hooted in disbelief when A Year In Provence focused on the natives ' preoccupation with hunting a local , woodland fungus which sells for £100 a pound . |
| 3 | ‘ It was n't exactly what I had in mind when I asked the council if I could donate some money for a seat in the park ’ |
| 4 | So our having the tape-recorder is affecting the quality of Mrs Padmore 's life — which , however , has an indirect effect on the quality of our life , given the I think not unreasonable premise that an improvement in the quality of someone else 's life offers us some kind of pleasure or satisfaction , or at any rate spares us discomfort or guilt ; though whether this is what I had in mind when I borrowed the tape-recorder this morning I think unlikely . |
| 5 | She got in trouble when I got home . |
| 6 | No , they 're not as sensible as they are you remember in Prestley when we went there so what er , perhaps , especially for solid places , solid with the roads in Germany |
| 7 | They woke to one of those balmy days you get in midwinter when the frost has lost its grip and before the rains begin . |
| 8 | She closed the door and dragged herself wearily up the stairs ; as she pushed open her bedroom door she screamed in fright when a dark figure materialised out of the gloom . |
| 9 | If you were wise at the time , you will have had a second report bound up and filed , containing every fact used , every reference studied , all the results of tests , every reason you had in mind when you drew your conclusions — and you alone will have access to these private notes . |
| 10 | ‘ Is that what you had in mind when you talked about my helping you ? |
| 11 | A Burmese proverb sums up what I felt about Burma : ‘ If you fall in love when young you can never forget through ten thousand years . ’ |
| 12 | Not the sort of love that you see in films when the big hairy hero takes his girlfriend in his arms , half suffocates her with a big slobbering kiss and then says , ‘ I love you , Ermentrude . ’ |
| 13 | Like lying on one 's back as we did in Spain when we slept out looking up between the fig-branches into the star-corridors , the great seas and oceans of stars . |
| 14 | As he remarks , this is what we do in arithmetic when we check additions by subtraction , and vice versa . |
| 15 | Go any day to the Blue Lagoon , a curious place of billowing steam clouds and science-fiction B-movie film-set machinery , and the place will be filled with Americans , all of them covered in sulphur when they emerge . |
| 16 | They lived in Road when I was born . |
| 17 | Erm that in fact er whether it 's been on board accurately by the report er or not is , is a matter for er question , but it was something that they bore in mind when they where reaching their conclusion , so they believe that they have taken it into account . |
| 18 | Oh yes , they were all fed properly , looked after alright , but they all , they told me they were all pedigrees but I doubt cos I do n't know whether that 's the truth , but they reckon in Poland when things were bad , when they unload them , they 'd make some excuse that one of these pigs got out and run away and course they used to catch it er , somewhere they used to catch it and that was their fee then . |
| 19 | Now he knew what they meant in books when characters were described as being ‘ frozen to the spot ’ . |
| 20 | In a rape case , by contrast , a defendant who says he believed in consent when the girl had demonstrated her lack of it may very well not be believed . |
| 21 | AN AMERICAN accused of killing a Japanese exchange student who knocked on the wrong door while looking for a Halloween party said he acted in self-defence when his trial opened yesterday . |
| 22 | But he recoiled in disgust when she came near him . |
| 23 | On 27 October 1846 he died in Preston when he burst a blood vessel during a fit of coughing , and was buried in St Peter 's churchyard , Preston . |
| 24 | It serves in Alcine when the scene changes between Acts 3 and 4 to depict Alcine 's magic cave ( E minor-C major ) , and again in Act 4 , scenes 4–5 , as Alcine summons a troupe of wizards to kill Melanie ( A minor-F major . ) |
| 25 | He could feel a slight erection coming on — the sort he had in bars when he met good-time girls . |
| 26 | Not only that , the recordings were made on the very instrument for which most of it had been written , so there 's no doubt that the sounds we hear are the very sounds he had in mind when setting out his very registration . |
| 27 | In answer to the hon. Gentleman 's point about travel — which is what I think that he had in mind when he referred to ’ communication ’ — by hon. Members to European Community institutions , I hope to table the necessary resolutions very soon . |
| 28 | Then , too , Jackie made a misjudgement in 1966 and 1967 : he stayed in BRM when that team was already on the slippery slope towards oblivion . |
| 29 | And the videotape of Cal and me playing Bottom and Titania in A Midsummer Night 's Dream last year , with us collapsing in giggles when she tripped over a cobweb and brought down half the lights . |