Example sentences of "when [pers pn] be [vb pp] [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 | 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 ? |
| 4 | It is only later , when I am faced with real life , that the theories no longer seem so reasonable . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | You show me what to do when I am approached by strangers . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ When I was fired at , he missed and that gave me a love of life . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | David Thacker recalls a slightly different version : ‘ When I was shot down it was my first encounter with the enemy . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ I always found it very funny when I was referred to as Mr Laura Ashley , especially as I hated my own name , Bernard . ’ |
| 17 | When I was hit by a drunk driver in 1980 , crossing the road in Los Angeles . |
| 18 | I had Philippe Alliot in front of me and there was nowhere to go when I was hit by Zanardi . ’ |
| 19 | This was something I was able to develop very much when I was appointed as director for life of the Vienna Singverein . |
| 20 | I did n't see it but when I was presented with the job advert from a local newspaper the words leapt out at me : ‘ Lecturer : Special needs ’ in the college in the borough where I used to teach before becoming a peripatetic home teacher for pre-school children . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I 'd felt powerless when I was abused as a child and I 'd felt the same powerlessness with the bank manager . |
| 23 | ‘ But when I was reunited with them , I 'll admit I just broke down and sobbed my head off . ’ |
| 24 | But Victoria is wondering why I always come with you , when I was employed to be on duty here . ’ |
| 25 | I became involved with him some years ago when I was consulted by Lord Rayne who told me that he had a friend — a leading paediatrician in London — whose daughter was in serious trouble . |
| 26 | She caught me once when I was drunk in school . |
| 27 | When I was separated from all these early influences , my choices became simple . |
| 28 | It arose because of my meeting George Wigg in the army , whom I had encountered when I was based at Southern Command headquarters and he was at the same headquarters as a Lieutenant-Colonel in charge of army education , where he had already established a reputation for ruthless eccentricity . |
| 29 | ‘ It was rather more difficult when I was based in London between foreign postings . |
| 30 | I noticed it especially on one occasion when I was beset with problems which had made me very unhappy . |