Example sentences of "when i [verb] [prep] my " in BNC.
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| 1 | Irina is right to say that when I lived on my own I was a lonely man . |
| 2 | The weather , and I like entertaining , I could n't do any when I lived with my Mum-in-law … . |
| 3 | When I sit in my garden with the Duchess by my side , I sometimes think about my early life . |
| 4 | ‘ When I got into my neighbour 's house I felt safe . |
| 5 | When I got to my feet I wiped a mixture of snot and blood from my nose and looked around . |
| 6 | When I got to my room they 'd already brought in my things and Karen , she 's my key worker , she helped me unpack . |
| 7 | When I got to my feet he took the injured arm in both his hands , told me to shut my eyes and start counting . |
| 8 | ‘ When I got to my door I found that I had this cement cock in my pocket . |
| 9 | And then when I got to my room , and sat on my bed with the pistol in my hands , I cried . |
| 10 | When I walk through my front door I hear the TV playing loud . |
| 11 | The input/central distinction is something on which I shall be heavily reliant when I come to my positive thesis . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm crazy , and when I come to my senses I 'll know that I 'm crazy to admit it to anyone . |
| 13 | ‘ When I go to my clients to collect I always ask if they have any hand-knitted woollen garments they do n't need , and if I 'm lucky they give me some . |
| 14 | I think I 'll pop it in the post now when I go for my tea . ’ |
| 15 | But I 'll have to ask the doctor about that when I go for my prescriptions . |
| 16 | My day starts when I climb into my ‘ green machine ’ and switch on that ‘ phone . |
| 17 | When I reappear in my flat I am not surprised to learn that the two doughballs have said absolutely nothing . |
| 18 | When I listen to my radio I am only marking time . |
| 19 | When I flopped at my first job , I was so fed up with myself I thought I was n't worth any decent firm 's money , so I went off and got a frightful job working in a dirty old canteen , just to punish myself , sort of . |
| 20 | When I wrote to my new employer conveying my regrets at the situation , I received by reply from America instructions to recruit a new staff ‘ worthy of a grand old English house ’ . |
| 21 | I am sure that , despite his letter in your May issue ( Arm 's length or arm 's twist ) John Mallet really understands as well as the next man that , when I wrote in my letter of 10 March in The Times that ‘ we do not apply the arm 's length principle to the national museums and galleries ’ , I was saying no more than that there is no funding body between the Office of Arts and Libraries ( now the Department for the National Heritage ) and the national museums and galleries as there is between the Government and the subsidised theatres and performing arts bodies . |
| 22 | They were still talking when I continued on my way back to my roomette where I sat in comfortable privacy for a while reading the timetable and also reflecting that although I still had no answers to the old questions , I now had a whole crop of new ones , the most urgent being whether or not Filmer had already known the Youngs were friends of Ezra Gideon . |
| 23 | When I returned to my flat the cat meowed a welcome and rubbed himself against my legs . |
| 24 | That night I went to the theatre and when I returned to my hotel , a quiet man in dark clothes was waiting for me . |
| 25 | He had not woken when I returned from my meal at two . |
| 26 | When I returned from my trip , however , it was to discover that while buying software is easy , buying a computer is certainly not ! |
| 27 | Anyway , mum says I was restless when I returned from my second holiday there . |
| 28 | I finished by playing Isabella in a production of Women Beware Women in a 1950 's style which may have helped when I came to my Ophelia , which was loosely based on a Princess Di concept . |
| 29 | I got on the vehicle but the driver had not long been in fourth gear when I came to my senses . |
| 30 | So Mrs Smith left us alone and I stripped off in front of my friend although I made her turn away when I came to my combs . |