Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb base] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I ask for a carrot now mummy I , I 'll just have a big feast . |
| 2 | ‘ I usually only scrub the front tyre when I get into a turn too hot but this is how it goes : You 're in fourth gear and jetting down to this U-turn . |
| 3 | I got to cross the road — I remember that , so when I get to a gate I go out and have a look round . |
| 4 | It 's great , Frankie boy ; I 'm keeping to the fields and the woods and walking a lot and getting lifts and when I get near a town I look for a good fat juicy dog and I make friends with it and take it out to the woods and then I kill it and eat it . |
| 5 | Well now , now you know that when I disappear with a placard sign , I do n't just appear with a placard , we are doing things behind the scenes . |
| 6 | I like to understand the meanings of words and always refer to a dictionary when I come on a new word . |
| 7 | When I come across a new metaphor , one that stretches my understanding , I feel cold . |
| 8 | LIVING in England , I never expect to get an architectural thrill when I go to a concert or the theatre . |
| 9 | I find it disappointing now that when I go to a completion meeting , I am often the only woman there . |
| 10 | ‘ When I go to a party I feel there 's an expectation for me to be witty and to be a ‘ party gal ’ , says my friend Alison . |
| 11 | But erm if I , when I go to a farm I do n't want spray . |
| 12 | When I go for a night session I make sure to arrive well before darkness , usually around 7.30 p.m. or 8 p.m. in summer , when dusk does not fall until 10 p.m. or so . |
| 13 | I find it tragic when I hear of a couple where one knows the other is dying , but neither can bear to talk about it . |
| 14 | When I listen to a piece of music , my first questions have to do with whether it moves me , does it have anything unique to tell me , and questions about what style it 's in are way down the list . |
| 15 | you 're always having a fag when I pull into a petrol station |
| 16 | They were made of diamonds , not gold , but I wore them when I want to a ball and never felt my immortal soul in danger because of that . |
| 17 | There are a few minutes , perhaps not more than three or four , when I exist in a bewildering storm of hope , joy , incomprehen-sion and dread , when they do n't find the body at the bottom of the shaft . |
| 18 | When I work in a particular area I want to know why a landscape looks as it does . |
| 19 | When I talk about a slide , it was minimal and from the highest of heights . |
| 20 | The first thing 1 demand when I move into a new office is one soft chair for myself and another for my visitors . |
| 21 | ‘ I do get depressed when I think about a career based in England . |
| 22 | When I look at a natural object for a long time , like looking into the burning embers and the flames of a fire , there appears a new vision or facet of that object or a new way of seeing it in relationship to some other world of thought . |
| 23 | When I look at a Picasso which is using a lot of colours and I look at something else , for some reason I know that Picasso is using colour well , and the other person is n't . |
| 24 | When I look at a picture of a naked man , I can think like Richard Dyer : ‘ I 'd like to feel that man and I 'd like to be that man . ’ |
| 25 | When I look at a Picasso which is using a lot of colours and I look at something else , for some reason I know that Picasso is using colour well , and the other person is n't . |
| 26 | Here perhaps we would like to reply : The description of what is got immediately , i.e. of the visual experience , by means of an interpretation — in an indirect description , ‘ I see the figure as a box ’ means : I have a particular visual experience which I have found that I always have when I interpret the figure as a box or when I look at a box . |
| 27 | But we can also see the illustration now as one thing , now as another ’ , Wittgenstein imagines someone like Locke — though he does not mention Locke — saying that ‘ I see the figure as a box ’ means ‘ I have a particular visual experience which I have found that I always have when I interpret the figure as a box or when I look at a box . ’ |
| 28 | So if I have associated the right word — say , the word blue — with the right impression — the impression I get when I look at a cornflower — there is no fear of my language not mirroring reality as there is if I talk about fate or fortune , these not being words for simple ideas impressed on my mind by external objects . |
| 29 | " But then , what else could I be when I look like a scarecrow and smell like a fox ? " |
| 30 | ‘ How can I relax when I look like a blancmange covered in maraschino cherries ? ’ |