Example sentences of "[Wh adv] i [was/were] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sign was put up in order to remind staff whenever I was on duty . |
| 2 | That 's how I were on Monday when I were full of cold , I went to bed in end , cos it were warmer . |
| 3 | ‘ My love of English football goes back to 1973 when I was with Leigh . |
| 4 | ‘ You remember four years ago , when I was on holiday by the sea , in Brittany ? ’ |
| 5 | I was in my late twenties and , like any sailor , I liked a good time when I was on leave . |
| 6 | I began to use the mornings of those days when I was on evening watch for these little excursions , and covered quite a bit of territory — Leighton Buzzard , High Wycombe , Buckingham , Dunstable , Newport Pagnell , Woburn , Banbury , Northampton , Aylesbury , Bedford , and even as far as Whipsnade and the Chiltern Hills . |
| 7 | My impression that I had been hurled into a coarser world was heightened at the beginning of each day , particularly one morning when I was on fire picket duty and had the sadistic pleasure of rattling the dustbin lids and shouting " wakey-wakey ! " along the corridors . |
| 8 | I hate that , I really do , thank God I 'm at boarding school cos I hate , the worst bit is like when they get , I remember when I was at day school and them coming home from the parents ' evening and I was |
| 9 | It 's three quarters of an hour when I was at mum 's . |
| 10 | But even this has not stopped my love for canoeing as I have been out many times since and this summer , when I was at camp , I was going down a weir , when I got caught in a stopper at the bottom and nearly drowned myself again . |
| 11 | No , I think I find it easiest , I remember when I was at school and you ca n't remember when you were last at college on time ! |
| 12 | Well I can remember whe when I was at school , physics and maths were clever subjects , they were male subjects . |
| 13 | Cos I know when I was at school we actually got our sex education in fourth year , and it was by a visiting lecturer , it was this wee old man about fifty , he said basically , this is a male body , this is a female body , nothing about sexuality , orgasms anything ! |
| 14 | Oh that was there for years , donkey 's years when , I can remember when I was at school , going to school and it was still there quite a number of years after I left school . |
| 15 | It really brought back memories when I was at school , I really enjoyed it . |
| 16 | they remind me of when I was at school . |
| 17 | It was when I was at school . |
| 18 | No that was in , that was when I was at home , in Essex . |
| 19 | But I give them a so then I saw Mrs on Tuesday when I was at Ashington . |
| 20 | I remember when I was at university in Padua we went to see the basilica there . |
| 21 | ‘ I remember when I was at college men would phone me and I would n't have any idea who they were . |
| 22 | ’ The ones she looked at when I was at George 's funeral ? ’ |
| 23 | Allison said : ‘ The atmosphere was just like the Manchester derbies when I was at Maine Road . |
| 24 | To Phil he says : ‘ I saw quite a number of the men you 're doing when I was in London . |
| 25 | Your letter was sent on to Italy and the post to and fro is so awful it only arrived back here last week when I was in London . |
| 26 | I tell you a ou I said today when I was in school cos that 's like being at home with my three year old , it was just like that today being stuck in there ! |
| 27 | A lance-corporal who wrote the following letter was more unlucky : ‘ Last Sunday when I was in church , the preacher actually thanked God that He had graciously protected and safeguarded the Führer . |
| 28 | They wrote many of these stories when I was in bed . |
| 29 | It was only when I was in Holland that I had my first serious doubts that I might actually fail and have to marry Janice — in which case there was no way I would wish to claim custody . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I had donkeys when I was in Forres , 23 years ago , ’ he says , somewhat wistfully . |