Example sentences of "when i [was/were] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe I was less fortunate than my colleagues in my experience of Heathrow , but even my landlady in Twickenham was a most severe character , as mean as mustard with food and I seemed to live in the expensive Airport restaurant even when I was off duty . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Yes , if you can , if you can recognise it , or if you 've got , or if , several members of erm , several students we had when I was on grocery at Camden , we had to , I think it was twenty eight on Saturday afternoon , they might have been on checkouts , well I mean , they 're still scheduled to my , I 'm saying out of that about four of them er , are still working at Camden full-time . |
| 4 | Luckily I 'd had some speed earlier : when I was on blues I could get through anything . |
| 5 | They each had a radiator beside their beds , and very often when I was on night duty J. would return to bed very late ( or should I say early ? ) , after having been sitting with me in the Met Office , drinking coffee , chatting and so forth . |
| 6 | ‘ Two boys in Cincinnati when I was on vacation , and a boy named Mickey Swearinger and somebody else I do n't remember . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Last night … when I was on guard , see . ’ |
| 8 | We moved in with them , although it meant I had a long journey to the hospital every day and I had to sleep there when I was on call , and we stayed with them until he was nine . |
| 9 | Once she came in about 4pm when I was on duty , face glowing from the blustery west wind , and said eagerly , ‘ I see the flare path 's all lit up . |
| 10 | You went to work by yourself but you had to be taken to the hospital , and when I was on Martin it was right next door . |
| 11 | Yeah I had some good times around Norwich , when I was on travelling order job . |
| 12 | ‘ When I was on maternity leave one of these former partners asked me if I wanted some work , mainly dealing with the directors ’ personal tax affairs . |
| 13 | P. A. I got called as a witness in a motoring case , and it came up when I was on nights and I had to get up and call in the solicitor . |
| 14 | When I was on nights I used to watch it all the time . |
| 15 | She came into Dorothy when I was on days there at the end of my first year . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | BELVILLE : I fancy when I was of Pamela 's age I was pretty near as good as she . |
| 18 | I eh , we used to go out to the West Mersea a lot , during the summer , you know , when it , when I was at Colchester doing , mm , swimming , nice swimming and eh , . |
| 19 | But when I was at Napier College , I found myself drifting more towards business communications and PR . ’ |
| 20 | When I was at Ladymont I thought I could manipulate a pencil very nicely . |
| 21 | When I was at university ( actually a rather seedy teacher training college in south-east London ) nobody could afford to run a car . |
| 22 | When I was at university , we fulfilled expectations in every way by occupying the refectory to get the Americans out of Vietnam . |
| 23 | ‘ When I was at university , doing my professional training or in the early years of practice , I always worked with women women solicitors , women bankers and so on . |
| 24 | ‘ I suppose I first started thinking about this when I was at university in the late '70s : that getting rid of a set of prejudices about women had only reinforced a whole bunch of prejudices about men . |
| 25 | WHEN I WAS at university in 1981–84 , the contempt , intolerance and oppression of men and their sexuality was revolting . |
| 26 | But when I was at Dacre , in spite of all the painful memories — Theda , it was your face that haunted me , not my mother 's ! |
| 27 | When I was at Shrewsbury School , the housemaster made it his duty to chose the cooks , maids and bottle-washers ; his criteria being age combined with an aggressive plainness . |
| 28 | He said : ‘ I do n't know how fans looked at me when I was at Liverpool . |
| 29 | I got all these things early cos when I was at granny and grandpa 's they gave me some money . |
| 30 | And like Matthew 's phoned me straight after when I was at Alison 's and said oh Ben 's . |