Example sentences of "when [pron] be [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | How can the computer priesthood survive when everyone is a member ? |
2 | Come down and snooze in a garden when I am a dragon , an ocean-lurking , sky-flying free dragon ; when the mother wind that keeps the world spinning caresses my scales as I fly across the moon and bring warnings and hopes to the fiery heart of the world ; when I can dance aloft at dawn , so that the rising sun turns my every scale to a pure diamond and the tides and rhythms of the oceans slow down in delight . |
3 | When I am a man may I walk up the street in my nothings ? and then all the other people shout Certainly not . |
4 | ‘ When I was a boy in Harlan County we were real poor and every morning I used to wake up and look out of my bedroom window at this mountain called Gray 's Knob . |
5 | When I was a boy |
6 | When I was a boy in Salzburg two or three hundred people might hear a concert , listening to something that the great majority of people outside the concert-hall had no knowledge or understanding of . |
7 | I was nourished on stories like these ; William Wallace , slaying half a dozen English soldiers with his fishing rod ; Bruce , before Bannockburn , felling an English knight with one stroke from his slender battle-axe ; and when I was a boy I contracted a mortal dread of dying in bed . |
8 | When I was a boy , God was always at home . |
9 | When I was a boy , a great uncle-in-law died of cancer , as did my mother-in-law in later years . |
10 | When I was a boy there were hundreds of fishing boats . |
11 | When I was a boy Milford Street always seemed very busy , maybe because it was the nearest main thoroughfare to my Culver Street home . |
12 | The front door had been beautifully oak grained , this is today almost a lost art , although when I was a boy , every painter worth his salt would not only copy woods but also marble . |
13 | ‘ You would n't believe the power the old-time underwriters had when I was a boy . |
14 | When I was a boy of fourteen , my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand the old man around . |
15 | When I was a boy I belonged to a small Christian sect that was my whole world . |
16 | He taught me when I was a boy . |
17 | And , ‘ When I was a boy it was always considered bad form to talk about food or money . |
18 | TV did n't exist when I was a boy . |
19 | ‘ Used to do this sort of thing when I was a boy , ’ he said . |
20 | WHEN I was a boy , running naked daubed in human blood with the Mod gangs of pre-Thatcherite East Devon , we read NME and Sounds and spat the venomous arguments of Burchill , Morley and Baker in the faces of the sofa-lounging Genesis fans of the soft sixth form . |
21 | When I was a boy living on a croft at Aywick , the corn bunting was a familiar bird . |
22 | I found the way here when I was a boy , and it spoils you for the human world . |
23 | Like I did when I was a boy . |
24 | It was er The village centre is about the same as it was when I was a boy , more busier of course , all the private houses that were on the front , you know , Street ? |
25 | ‘ When I was a boy the outfall was still in use and old Penrose was in charge . |
26 | ‘ When I was a boy I knew your part of the country very well , ’ he said . |
27 | ‘ When I was a boy my parents had a bookshop like this in Plymouth . |
28 | ‘ Do you know , Ranulf , ’ Corbett continued , wiping his mouth on a napkin , ‘ when I was a boy , my mother took me to hear a famous preacher . |
29 | But she was there when I was a boy and even when I went to school in Porthmadog . |
30 | When I was a boy — just 30 years ago — a store like this would have had a hard time surviving in this small mid-Western Canadian city . |