Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] when i [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not crossing out , spelling , getting my homework in on time , asking for help when I 'm not sure and presentation |
| 2 | The bag I used to use for work when I was a hired help , oh my God ! |
| 3 | That 's why I feel a certain amount of responsibility when I 'm writing . |
| 4 | You see , and of course when I was at Cambridge , you see , and that was during the Second World War , well of course , you see , I remember seeing a plane because of course the station was a prime target |
| 5 | and the , the second sleep walk was I came down the stairs er they were having supper , of course when I was very young we went to bed early er I come down the stairs and opened the door and then I woke up . |
| 6 | I gave up thoughts of university when I was offered a trainee manager post . ’ |
| 7 | Yeah I used to play a lot of football when I was a young guy like you |
| 8 | hard to tell , I just er had a quick cup of tea when I was there |
| 9 | I was n't the sort of girl when I was younger that men lean out of cars and shout things to , and I 'm glad . |
| 10 | ‘ It was a sort of joke when I was at Oxford . |
| 11 | In fact , when Carl or Etty would ask her to take things easy … to try and relax … to take more rest , her answer invariably would be : ‘ Keender ( children ) I 'll have plenty of rest when I 'm dead . |
| 12 | ‘ Clarice Cliff was a hard taskmistress — I had to report to her every day — but she took great interest in the progress of young trainees and her husband , Colley Shorter , the chairman of her company , arranged for me to take day classes at Newcastle College of Art when I was doing National Service with the RAF stationed in Northumberland , ’ he recounted . |
| 13 | I first became aware of crofting when I was 11 or 12 years old . |
| 14 | Except for a small diversion and nibble some bits of lamb when I was cutting up the meat lunchtime , and to try and serving of it . |
| 15 | Still pinned to the floor I was about to burst into tears of frustration when I was suddenly released . |
| 16 | Where is this God of love when I 'm going through this situation ? |
| 17 | Mum told me the facts of life when I was twelve . |
| 18 | In the abstract it may not be too difficult to acknowledge that the thinking , desiring and feeling which seem more intimately myself than my bodily motions are spontaneous , and also voluntarily controllable , in much the same proportions as the physical process of breathing , and that there has never been a moment of choice when I was not already being spontaneously pulled by them in the directions between which I chose . |
| 19 | having to get out of bed when I 'm knackered ! |
| 20 | I had no premonition of disaster when I was sent off to answer a call from a Mrs Dunston . |
| 21 | It suddenly occurred to me that just as I wanted the boys to dress according to Western ideas when they were in London , so the Sheikha and Sheikha Grandmother would like me to dress according to their ideas of fashion when I was with them . |
| 22 | ‘ Used to do this sort of thing when I was a boy , ’ he said . |
| 23 | There was talk of golf when I was a wee boy , and I went with my father to the local courses . |
| 24 | ( Interestingly enough , I could n't get what I considered to be a good cup of coffee when I was in the States , so perhaps it 's a dying art … |
| 25 | Then he said , I wish to God I 'd met someone like G.P. when I was a student . |
| 26 | ‘ I never had time for fun when I was your age ! |
| 27 | Again , there were difficulties with Equity when I was selected and the whole thing had to go to arbitration because the company stood out for the casting it wanted . |
| 28 | ‘ My brain has been involved with violence when I was a kid so much that , when I close my eyes , I see burning houses . |
| 29 | I fell in love with snooker when I was about fourteen , but when I got to about sixteen or seventeen , I started travelling around and playing in junior competitions and realized that I was very good . |
| 30 | I can remember being taken into care when I was three . |