Example sentences of "when i was [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This topic remained part of my responsibilities until the middle of 1990 when I was moved to one of the RAF information technology strategy studies . |
| 2 | I had a similar experience back in 1978 , when I was elected to the national executive committee of the Labour party . |
| 3 | lower than it was when I was elected in June 1987 . |
| 4 | ‘ The second occasion , of course , was when I was hit by a car in Monte Carlo on my third visit there … let me see , yes , it would have been twenty-seven years ago , three days before Christmas . |
| 5 | She gave up the branch chairmanship of the Civil and Public Servants union in 1990 after 10 years and said of her multi-purpose role : ‘ My husband used to say our lounge was like an office on Sunday nights when I was sorting through my paperwork for the week . ’ |
| 6 | And I would dare those of you who would look up the newspaper clippings of that occasion and challenge that view , because you would find a much different reading in those newspaper clips than what I learnt many years later , trudging round the island , Personally I thought that I was being particularly clever bombing a seaplane that was taking off , It was only when I was serving on Sylt in the fifties that I learned that this was in fact a tug ( or you might call it a barge , a sea-going barge ) on the end of 100 metres of line , that was being towed . |
| 7 | It was about three o'clock when I was awoken by my door being opened oh so quietly . |
| 8 | She came to one of our mission hospitals when I was training in Australia . ’ |
| 9 | On the day when I was wilting with heat my feet were not in the least sweaty , but I would have liked more support — I thought it barely adequate except for lowland walking . |
| 10 | ‘ Of all the low points I suffered , one of the worst was when I was deprived of the chance of winning a third world cross country title because I was n't allowed to compete in 1988 , ’ explained the 26-year-old . |
| 11 | ‘ I lived my life in Siglo XX as described in the book until 1980 , when I was invited to a conference on women in Denmark . |
| 12 | you know , it 's just pathetic and she 's so rude and nasty no mm that 's right yeah , yeah , yeah it 's the same yesterday when I was writing about that |
| 13 | I never wilted and was proud of my fighting qualities when I was looking for survival and happy for any form of success . |
| 14 | I was looking the other day , when I was looking for some of these things . |
| 15 | know when I was looking for that |
| 16 | And erm one day when I was digging in a vegetable garden , I got a whiff of a smelly swamp in the fields , which once , I knew , had been an , a pond in the last century . |
| 17 | In my own case , from 1957 when I joined ICI until 1973 when I was appointed to the board , I had no fewer than nine jobs . |
| 18 | I did [ think of myself as a cabbage ] when I was living at the other place doing all that washing by hand … |
| 19 | Mary Finnigan : ‘ I first met David in the summer of 1968 when I was living with my two children in a ground floor flat in an old house in Beckenham . |
| 20 | It was when I was living in New York , in Greenwich Village , in 1974 , after completing a semester of ‘ creative writing workshops ’ at Ohio University , where I had been very happy . |
| 21 | And then I did n't see her again until about nine years ago , when I was living in America and we were introduced again . |
| 22 | I was first introduced to Medau in 1947 when I was sent by Dr. Anni Noll to a post natal class which was held in Days Lane School , Sidcup . |
| 23 | I remember how happy I was when I was accepted at Hamburg University , because I could at last get away from my mother 's asparagus dishes . ’ |
| 24 | This was in a period when I was based at Llandudno and every available minute of spare time was spent in climbing and scrambling among those delightful hills . |
| 25 | It does n't float in the air it drops down to ground level and some years ago , when I was based in Ashfield , I had an experience of this . |
| 26 | At one time , when I was touring in the theatre , I can remember simply having tea for breakfast and then going the whole day with nothing , then a tiny snack in the evening . |
| 27 | Nothing much has gone right for me since January when I was injured in a car crash . |
| 28 | I remember Dinah Prentice reading aloud to me from John Prebble 's The Highland Clearances when I was drawing near Arisaig . |
| 29 | The date to remember is Friday , July 17 , when I was honoured to be present at its rebirth , so to speak . |
| 30 | In those dark days when I was recovering from my knee injury I 'd play a video of an England match and upset myself all over again . |