Example sentences of "when i [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I will never stir from your side , when I am suffered to be near you . |
| 2 | But when I am kicked in the groin in my father 's house , when I am taunted and called ‘ nigger ’ and ‘ black bastard ’ , when I am arrested as a result of police harassment , at those times I am ashamed to be British . |
| 3 | ‘ Because it looks more proper when I am looking after a patient . ’ |
| 4 | When I say , ‘ Now I see it as a duck ’ , am I saying that I have a certain Lockean visual sensation — that is , that the figure appears to me , in a non-concept-dependent sense of ‘ appears ’ , in a certain way — which I have found I always have when I am led by the accompanying text to apply the figure in a certain way ? |
| 5 | Yet , at best , this is unreliable , as when I am thinking of your beautiful wife while discussing with you the state of the nation . |
| 6 | When I am fishing on my own I only weigh them straight away if they appear to be over 9lb , and leave the weighing until I pack in if they appear to be less . |
| 7 | It is only later , when I am faced with real life , that the theories no longer seem so reasonable . |
| 8 | When I am trying to be stricter than usual with myself , I plan a really busy week so that I am out more than is customary . |
| 9 | But when I am kicked in the groin in my father 's house , when I am taunted and called ‘ nigger ’ and ‘ black bastard ’ , when I am arrested as a result of police harassment , at those times I am ashamed to be British . |
| 10 | The only times I do not want to be a writer are when I want to be a painter , and the only times I want to be a painter are when I am taken by the cast or mobility on a person 's face . |
| 11 | For instance , when I am sitting on this chair , how do you want me to appear ? etc. , etc . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ When I am shaving in the morning I say to myself that if I were a young man I would emigrate . |
| 13 | The Americans could take this a little further , but after Schweinfurt they had to stop and lick their wounds ; and so this leads on to the inevitable topic when I am confronted with the audiences I meet in all those places . |
| 14 | I often think how she would despise me when I am driven by curiosities to ask the children what they had for lunch when they were invited out . |
| 15 | ‘ And he went to the degree of saying , when I pressed him , how are we going to stay in this business ; he said , Albert , for all I know right now when I am talking to you , we could be finished with the business ; I do n't know . ’ |
| 16 | An when I am talking to meself in poetry I talk , |
| 17 | The words probably , likely and unlikely litter the text , even when I am talking about what is widely regarded as fact . |
| 18 | You show me what to do when I am approached by strangers . |
| 19 | The call that particularly mystifies me , when I am subjected to it on journey after journey , is the admonition from catering staff to intending consumers of their junk food to be sure to bring their small change with them . |
| 20 | When I am lying with him , and he is inside me — that is the moment I know for sure . ’ |
| 21 | " When I was dealing with the men personally I generally got them to see matters from my point of view , but unfortunately I could not stay in any one port for any length of time ; my subordinates did not have the same control over men as I did " . |
| 22 | Did you get that bit erm , when I was speaking to you about how everybody hates you and stuff ? |
| 23 | ‘ When I was fired at , he missed and that gave me a love of life . ’ |
| 24 | When I was chided by someone for seeming oblivious of ‘ the magnitude of the accounting operation ’ I said that it was because of my consciousness of the magnitude of all other operations that I dared to make these demands of Mr Whalley , who perfectly understands in any case . |
| 25 | I met Dr Johannsen , the senior therapist at the local hospital , when I was hunting for wood on the beach at Cator . |
| 26 | As a writing partner he had two rare gifts : the ability to get us unstuck with some inspired off-the-wall conceit when I was enmeshed in very on-the-wall musings ; and in addition , the priceless talent of knowing whether something was funny or not . |
| 27 | David Thacker recalls a slightly different version : ‘ When I was shot down it was my first encounter with the enemy . |
| 28 | When I was injured in the first match with Portsmouth at Fratton Park I did n't expect to be playing again in a fortnight . |
| 29 | Assuming that I 'd been able to drag the dinghy in a fairly straight line — though I might have gone astray a bit when I was stumbling in the mud — Joanna should be lying more or less straight ahead , and a good deal nearer than when I 'd left , for it was near high water then , and now it was about the last of the ebb . |
| 30 | ‘ I always found it very funny when I was referred to as Mr Laura Ashley , especially as I hated my own name , Bernard . ’ |