Example sentences of "the [noun sg] when i [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What pains me is that you took the opportunity when I was sick unto death to steal Prince Edward 's heart from me , ’ she said to Joan , having informed her of the plan . |
| 2 | ‘ The other man 's grass is always greener and I had the opportunity when I was younger to work abroad . |
| 3 | ‘ One of the reasons you went to the cinema when I was a teenager was to pick up girls , but I never seemed to have any luck . |
| 4 | ‘ No , I came across the letter that had been enclosed with the money when I was going through my father 's papers after he died . |
| 5 | ‘ Why do people always ring the doorbell when I 'm in the bath ? ’ |
| 6 | I saw one forlorn notice saying " Sergeants ' Mess " , and was about to explore the rest of the camp when I was stopped by a shout . |
| 7 | I remembered the storm when I was fifteen . |
| 8 | Yes , because er in the university when I was studying at home , we have not er this tutor system like here and so it 's really strange , but I think it 's a good idea of , er talking to your lecturers as equal people . |
| 9 | Yeah , I 'd , I 'll have to blank it out the part when I 'm talking about passwords and things as well . |
| 10 | I wore my new boots in the snow when I was abroad this Christmas and now a white mark has spoiled the leather . |
| 11 | ‘ I normally drive a Volvo 343 ; it 's not a very new one , but my main criterion is to make sure I do n't end up as the jam in the sandwich when I 'm out on the motorway . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ A smalltime crook who got caught in the crossfire when I was working on a story a couple of years ago . |
| 13 | The notes were taken early on in the research when I was chiefly concerned with documenting pollution control work , thus they should suggest something of the nature of the job — routine tasks as well as special problems — which an officer can encounter on a summer 's day . |
| 14 | I shout at the car when I 'm getting cut up |
| 15 | Of his own interest in flying , Mr Tholen said : ‘ I was using air taxis a lot to go to the Continent when I was working at Billingham . ’ |
| 16 | Well now that , that 's the thing we did appreciate , because er in those days no , no house had got its own bath it was a case of a tin bath on the hearth , but when I joined the club when I was working in the , when I was thirteen I , I left school cos me being having no father I was able to l leave school when I made me attendances , oh that 's something that might interest you I was thinking about . |
| 17 | But when you called I was teaching , and the rule when I am teaching is that one of my sons must answer the phone . |
| 18 | Had it in the bedroom when I was a kip this afternoon and I switched the battery off , so it does n't work very well with the battery off ! |
| 19 | Really she was just working out her guilt for having thrown me under the wardrobe when I was six weeks old . |
| 20 | She helps break the ice when I am interviewing . |
| 21 | I am away on a short holiday in Scotland between August 14th-26th but would be pleased to discuss this over the telephone when I 'm back . |
| 22 | Either way , I do n't have it , and I have no way of checking , since , as you will recall , your student only did the work when I was n't around , out of hours and when I was on leave . |
| 23 | They were on the till when I was up there this morning and I said you are you were working there |
| 24 | I remember first seeing the shop when I was a student up the road at Chelsea Polytechnic . |
| 25 | Frederick said yesterday : ‘ I started playing the piano when I was four-and-a half . |
| 26 | ‘ I started playing the piano when I was three and graduated from the Royal Academy of Music , ’ she says . |
| 27 | My bedroom , for instance , had a ghost that used to come through it every night — it was n't a visible ghost but it was audible — and I used to see the door open at the other end of the room when I was in bed and then would hear this ‘ clunk clunk ’ … . |
| 28 | I met and married my husband just at the point when I was beginning to apply for senior registrar posts . |
| 29 | We 've , into the village , we lived out in the countryside till I was eight , and we come down into the I should say town should n't I , we come down into the town when I was eight and I was there till I was twenty two , and I came up here , when I got married . |
| 30 | I do n't mind talk about others getting the job when I 'm the man who has got it . |