Example sentences of "an [noun sg] when i [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wanted to be an actor when I was very little , but then I changed my mind . |
| 2 | There had been a moment 's silence and then Alice had said : ‘ My father died , killed in an accident when I was fifteen . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ But seriously — if you had an accident when I was at school , you might lie there for hours . |
| 4 | ‘ They had one son , my father , who , along with my mother , died in an accident when I was just a baby . |
| 5 | The idea of the vats of the mind reminds me of an occasion when I was walking on the Appalachian Trail in Pennsylvania with some friends , who showed me an oak gall . |
| 6 | There was an occasion when I was umpiring a game of cricket . |
| 7 | At an age when I was having qualms over the philosophy of M. Bergson , he was speaking in a factory yard of the necessity to go on strike . |
| 8 | I , I , er I used to have an inspector when I was on traffic and he says you take care of the little things and the big things will take care of themselves . |
| 9 | I had asthma as a lad and also developed an ulcer when I was about 16 . |
| 10 | My eye fell on a page she had left on the kitchen table the other day and I had noted , before I could avert my eyes , a pretty scholarly history of my conversion to double-knotting , after an incident when I was unable to get out of the train at Greenwich one evening and found myself being carried on to Maze Hill , because someone was standing on the trailing lace of my shoe . |
| 11 | I would have given my right arm to have achieved such an agreement when I was Minister for Aviation between 1984 and 1987 . |
| 12 | You would n't be a real beginner and it would give you an interest when I 'm busy . ’ |
| 13 | Why are you so all-fire determined to do yourself an injury when I 'm around ? ’ |