Example sentences of "when i [be] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tall , but not gigantic ; shorter than I am , in fact , and when I am in France I never find myself towering over people like a Gallic chieftain . |
| 2 | ‘ I always call in here when I am in Keswick . ’ |
| 3 | When I was in Moscow , my grandmother was with me and everything that I wanted she was doing for me and I was a little girl who had everything . |
| 4 | When I was in South Africa the attorney general of the Transvaal who has brought the charges made it abundantly clear that he was not er going to be influenced by er political issues , and I 'm not surprised that he 's taken the line that he does . |
| 5 | Expertise Stopping contrary views by ‘ dropping ’ data about your own expertise ( ‘ When I was in Paris , the Minister was saying to me … ’ ) . |
| 6 | ‘ When I was in India , I thought then I knew what it was I might believe in . |
| 7 | You all so easily forget these names now , oh I do n't remember it , but the other , oh I remember old , eh mate of , he was second in command when I was in India , and he , he , he was a right character , he was a right chara |
| 8 | Oh yeah , yes , when I went , when I went to a , when I was in India I went to have a , cos I went , I went , I was in the singles section then , in Colchester , and I went out , and I went , not I went to a licence agent first , and then I went to the headquarters , Signals there , and the bloke I remembered best of all , I think , was oh Cakey , his name was and his initials were Cakey . |
| 9 | all well and good , but for twenty year , we should n't be talking about this , when I was in Ireland a couple of years ago the skew over overseer said he had to get rid of his television for the same reason , he er could n't turn it up |
| 10 | . When I was in Sainsbury 's yesterday you know credit card pay by cheque . |
| 11 | Once , when I was in rep , I learned Iago in three days . |
| 12 | When I was in Germany at the end of the war , I met hundreds of Germans who tried to explain this to me . |
| 13 | When I was in New York recording I had tickets to go and see it . |
| 14 | but , I , when I was in Stockport I went to work at that tailor 's shop |
| 15 | Er I 've done that myself when I was in school . |
| 16 | I 'll tell you what , when I was in school yesterday I went into a classroom and there , hanging in a classroom , was a skeleton made out of cardboard . |
| 17 | Once upon a time , thought Lydia , when I was in love with him , he would 've socked me for that . |
| 18 | But it was only when I was in bed that night and unable to sleep that I realised the meaning of my horrified reaction : there would be another time , after I was dead , when I would not exist , when my consciousness would be extinguished . |
| 19 | My bedroom , for instance , had a ghost that used to come through it every night — it was n't a visible ghost but it was audible — and I used to see the door open at the other end of the room when I was in bed and then would hear this ‘ clunk clunk ’ … . |
| 20 | You know , when she came to visit me when I was in bed a couple of weeks ago she was asking erm how grateful she was to your parents for |
| 21 | Well , I was trying to sleep when I was in bed bed . |
| 22 | When I was in year 10 at school we took part in a T.V.E.I course , one part to this course was the community service work . |
| 23 | When I was in service in Norfolk with Mister Johnny 's parents , they used to tell me about their rich cousins in Wales and the screaming skull and the curse on the house . |
| 24 | When I was in Jordan in nineteen sixty five studying Arabic , I helped the Save The Children Fund operation there for a few months and this was undoubtedly one of the most enjoyable and interesting short periods of my life and I look back on it with great warmth and affection and as your Royal Highness knows , it happens also that many , many years ago before you were our president , my father occupied your office and I therefore come to this meeting today with some knowledge of the fund 's activities and with great admiration and respect for all the that the fund has achieved . |
| 25 | When I was in performance of my duties , he distinctly told me that the Prince would be poisoned . |
| 26 | I remember well , during the air-raids of the forties when I was in London and we waited as darkness came for the first sirens and the deep breath to get one 's courage up , that we felt we were part of the will of the capital of England . |
| 27 | I saw BB King use one when I was in London in 1972 . |
| 28 | When I was in London during the early years of this period I often stayed with my mother in Hampton Court . |
| 29 | But I myself , when I was in London years ago , did wrong with a woman I hardly knew . |
| 30 | ‘ When I was in London I paid people to ascertain if the Templar church near Fleet Street contained anything resembling the River Jordan or the Ark of Moses . ’ |