Example sentences of "in the [noun] when i " in BNC.

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1 I was just takin' off my apron in the smithy when I says to the guv'nor :
2 What actually happened was my a friend of mine or really was a friend of mine for a short time , he he was in the company when I joined , and er after two months he told me he was leaving .
3 I went for a midnight walk last February — it was snowing , I just got the urge , it was like a fairy tale , clean and soft — and they were standing in the hall when I got back , eyes frantic , fingers pointing , accusing me of — what ?
4 He 's sometimes in the hall when I pass on the way out .
5 Although the bolts were thick , I still bent in the middle when I was lifted and carried , a man at either of my ends .
6 There used to be er , a lady that used to come in the cinema when I worked there , and she had a
7 ‘ They do n't feel a thing , and I always put them back in the lake when I 'm through . ’
8 I was just going to look through it to find out what was happening in the passage when I saw a fishy eye fixed in the centre .
9 I never see fewer than six or seven young men sitting around in the kitchen when I go in there , I 've never worked out who 's a brother or a cousin or what .
10 My mother and I were in the kitchen when I saw him and involuntarily said , ‘ My God , he looks as though he 's … ’
11 John Laurie never come in the kitchen when I come down I thought oh good God .
12 If you rise up in the stirrups when I say one and sink down at two you 'll find you stay with it . ’
13 no he would er nineteen and a half stone he popped his head in the door when I went to see Jimmy
14 I was fetching a tin bowl of water from the tap in the yard when I heard Mum call out , ‘ Katie , fetch me a bucket of slack before yer goo ter school . ’
15 ‘ I 've got a cousin who farms not far from the village and I used to stay there in the holidays when I was a girl . ’
16 But he 's even becoming a complete , in the holidays when I 've got the housework to do and meals to cook , and him to look after if there 's another pair of hands that can take him out for an hour
17 In the toilet when I was with Lynne .
18 I understood what I had seen in the dream when I learned the words " gaberdine " and " mahogany " ; and I was born in the year of the New Look , understood by 1951 and the birth of my sister , that dresses needing twenty yards for a skirt were items as expensive as children — more expensive really , because after 1948 babies came relatively cheap , on tides of free milk and orange juice , but good cloth in any quantity was hard to find for a very long time .
19 I was really chuffed because normally with those the fans are ducking in the Shed when I hit them .
20 We were on holiday in the Aegean when I was getting better from this talking thing and she was reading Crime and Punishment , and I used to watch her toes and wonder which part she had got to .
21 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 .
22 I had first seen her in the desert when I went for my first ‘ bedu ’ breakfast and the prospective bridegroom 's brother had played fox in the hen coop .
23 ‘ I 'm not allowed in the prop-room when I 'm in costume , ’ Stella said .
24 The next time he makes me stand in the rain when I need answers to questions , he may well be treated to a proverbial Glasgow kiss , but I do wish those who choose to criticise him ( and , given his superb all-round game , his one Major title does deserve scrutiny ) would give some consideration before they complain .
25 I stabled my own horse and was in the buttery when I heard screams , the crashing of hooves and Vulcan 's neighs .
26 so that in the end when I sell it again I can put the type in alphabetical ascending order
27 ‘ Yesterday probably because the photos were n't in the house when I called to see him last night .
28 The glistering sound of mud was still in the house when I woke , sitting up angrily , for I had not intended to sleep .
29 No one but yourself was in the house when I came , barring the cook , who is not of the household .
30 This is one of the few occasions in the House when I can say that many hon. Members on both sides of the House told the Government that that would happen if the Government allowed the policy to develop in the way it has .
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