Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] when i [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only wish I had that opportunity when I was his age . ’ |
| 2 | I was n't actually putting it on either , I said like that and and I keep saying yeah after each , each sentence when I 'm describing something to my mum like saying last match yeah , we won yeah , six nil yeah , eight nil yeah and it I keep saying yeah , yeah , my mum 's going yeah , shut up my mum says I go yeah that 's well nice and she goes erm goes well nice I said |
| 3 | Yeah , the way the ice formed on this car when I was trying to get the snow off off the windscreen and the ice and everything that was er , no I personally think it 's too cold . |
| 4 | ‘ I was on a visit doing some coaching when I was told the President and Secretary of State wanted to see me . |
| 5 | I bought this place when I was — ’ he frowned ‘ — when I gave up motor racing . |
| 6 | I used to live in this town when I was a very small child , Miss Williams . |
| 7 | On another occasion when I was involved in the tense process of bringing prisoners into the charge room in the central bridewell in Newcastle , a very precise ex-detective colleague ( by then a neat , uniformed chief inspector ) stopped me to exclaim on my appearance . |
| 8 | On another occasion when I was holed up for two days in a tiny cottage in Snowdonia while it poured with rain , an ordnance survey map , my first hand knowledge of the area and an illustrated catalogue of Turner 's work allowed me to prepare for locating the sites where he worked . |
| 9 | I think of her and there is speechless upheaval in me — I feel this way when I 'm in Zurich , Frankfurt or Paris and the locals ca n't speak the lingo . |
| 10 | ‘ I — I get this way when I 'm unhappy . ’ |
| 11 | I , I mean I went like this into dinner okay , and I suppose everyone was like what 's she doing in a skirt or whatever cos they were all like looking and then like half way when I was eating I could feel them all staring at me and laughing and Jim and that lot were laughing and I could see Charlie |
| 12 | Joints in my back , wha , with walking , carrying too much weight when I was young . |
| 13 | And did n't have much fun when I was younger . |
| 14 | Did that get too much heat when I was gone ? |
| 15 | I sacrificed all pleasure when I was a child , to work and study twenty hours a day to support my family — while you , damn you to hell , lived like a parasite off Corosini money ! |
| 16 | You see , that was all school when I was a kid because we went to school in a chapel for part of the war . |
| 17 | It all makes me even more angry at the injustice of the situation , and then I worry that I am passing on that anger when I 'm with the boys . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ And it was reality on that train when I was nearly killed , ’ Donna answered angrily . |
| 19 | I think I 'll have more patience when I 'm a father . ' ’ |
| 20 | While I was here that 's what just what happened , I joined that army when I was seventeen and three month old . |
| 21 | I vaguely recall making an Airfix kit of that thing when I was a kid . |
| 22 | But the most remark able thing about him was his hair , unusually long for those days , and abundant — of the palest , curly blond , exactly the moonlight platinum colour of my own hair when I was a little boy . |
| 23 | I have often referred to my own fear when I was first required to make a horse jump a fence . |
| 24 | THE DOCTOR : I feel the same thing when I 'm holding a syringe : the power to fuck up someone 's life . |
| 25 | I never felt I had enough food when I was pregnant . |
| 26 | I mean I had the same problem when I was secretary . |
| 27 | Exactly the same thing happened to me at the same stage when I was pregnant . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ And I hope I may be spared to repaint my own house when I am ninety-eight , Doctor ! ’ |
| 29 | so I do that that way when I 'm doing it to practice . |
| 30 | I ca n't see the point of expending all that energy when I 'm perfectly happy as I am . ’ |