Example sentences of "when i [was/were] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I had been his guest in the air very briefly before when I was taken up to see Low Birk Hatt as a bird would see it , and I found it a thrilling experience , quite the best way to travel . |
| 32 | ‘ I spent many years driving in London , when I was stationed there . ’ |
| 33 | On either side of him were two younger officers who stood up when I was shown in . |
| 34 | When I was told why he could n't play I just cried even more . |
| 35 | In the thirties , my father had been a painter and decorator , plumber , electrician , publican and boxer , but when I was growing up , he was a Spiritualist and a faith healer , talking about his negro spirit-guide , Massa , and explaining how he knew when people were cured because he felt burning coals in the palms of his hands . |
| 36 | I did n't like The Beatles or the Stones until a couple of years ago , 'cos that used to be drummed into me when I was growing up . |
| 37 | Whereas there was a sense of helplessness , politically , when I was growing up , as if all the power was out of our hands . |
| 38 | The principles on which recovery and success have been based are those which , like so many others , I first began to understand for myself when I was growing up and trying to make my own way in the world . |
| 39 | ‘ When I was growing up , I never thought about my looks and I never seem to get used to talking about my features . |
| 40 | WHEN I WAS GROWING UP , the boys I hung around with used to have competitions to see how long they could go without changing their underpants . |
| 41 | Aye just when I was growing up it started aye , maybe when or maybe when I was about er ten year old or something . |
| 42 | Since they started they had no coordination , = when I was saying up they were going down , but as the weeks have gone by they 've actually gradually got better and they can smile while they are doing it erm as well , whereas before it was erm one great big grimace . |
| 43 | Because when I was saying in erm |
| 44 | Yes , well Eyre there stands as a sort of a paradigmatic modern philosopher , and when I was saying earlier that it was just a logical construction to help you to talk about particular things , and I think Eyre would go along with that . |
| 45 | And when I was saying earlier that it was just a logical construction to help you to talk about particular things , and I think Ayer would go along with that . |
| 46 | I found it really hard when I was left totally to the women 's company … |
| 47 | throw I meant in fact to put them in my bag when I was coming here and I forgot . |
| 48 | That 's the one I saw when I was coming in . |
| 49 | Now when er when I was coming down er , coming from , I lived on the Green then , to go to work , we used to met er a person and we used to call her Rosie . |
| 50 | Cos when I was coming home from Pete 's a bloke stopped me er whatever 's that noise ? |
| 51 | I do n't think this is now , what we have now , but when I was coming out to er meet you it was absolutely chocker right the way back to that erm last roundabout |
| 52 | Even when I was charging up here full of righteousness , part of me was thinking of this . ’ |
| 53 | And , you know , the sort of things which you can remember , which I can remember , some of the glorious ones , one when I was working up in Lancashire , about this time of year when the , the new May Day Bank Holiday was announced in about nineteen seventy-two or three or something and through five editions of the Lancashire Evening Post was a headline which said ‘ New Pubic Holiday ’ . |
| 54 | Started with this device this is the thing I made it at the grammar school when I was working there . |
| 55 | Mick , Mick when I was , when I was working down there in er the machine shop , him and erm Ian you know the bloke who one of the engineers ? |
| 56 | There was one point during my test when I was driving along and erm the I was creeping forward in a stream of traffic and the person in front of me had crossed the solid white line at some traffic lights and the lights changed and it would have been very easy to follow his lights and just carry on |
| 57 | ‘ I used to belong to one of the university jazz bands when I was studying here in Copenhagen , ’ he told her easily . |
| 58 | Stewart , who managed England 's Test side for six years and steered them to successive World Cup finals , said : ‘ When I was brought up during the war , serving Queen and country meant a lot to my generation . |
| 59 | I can remember being made to kiss these strangers , even when I was say about nine , eight or nine , I can remember feeling quite embarrassed about having to do it |
| 60 | It happened when I was forced on to a very low fat diet for health reasons ( I had a gall bladder that grumbled very painfully when I ate fatty food ) . |