Example sentences of "when i [modal v] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I don' think er that women mind at all , I do n't think that that people in general really take that much notice of it , I mean I personally er have no objection or would not try and dissuade these gentlemen from wearing these things , but I personally would never wear one , and one of the reasons I would never wear one is apart from maybe two cases there you can always tell , and I think the thing is that when I would feel very uncomfortable walking down the street and everyo I 'd feel that everyone was there going wig , wig and the other thing is , there 's a young lady at the back there made a very valid point , er |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm not sure when I 'll go back , ’ she answered . |
| 3 | They had been a way of ‘ coasting ’ slightly , when I 'd run out of steam . |
| 4 | All the while you were building this future I knew there 'd come a morning like this , when I 'd smile sadly as I left you , when I 'd give a last half wave at the corner , when I 'd set my face to the reality of the serious work ahead . |
| 5 | Up and up we went and when I could walk no longer he lay me down and covered me with kisses and love bites . |
| 6 | He began to study this idea , and he was to think later ( ‘ When I could think sanely again , ’ he said ) that this was one of the things that saved his reason . |
| 7 | One foreign ministry clerk in the early years of the twentieth century " soon decided that it was not worth the trouble to go to the office to sleep when I could sleep more comfortably in my own bed or pass my time in more interesting or more amusing tasks " , while an Italian ambassador is said to have spent only fifteen days of a year in residence in a post which he disliked . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ I feel I 've reached the stage of my career when I could take on another event seriously . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ I feel I 've reached the stage of my career when I could take on another event seriously . |
| 10 | ‘ It will be a great relief to me when I can walk normally again , ’ she muttered . |
| 11 | ‘ She says you must both be insane to want to have me here , when I can pay so little and have no means of making more . |
| 12 | Come down and snooze in a garden when I am a dragon , an ocean-lurking , sky-flying free dragon ; when the mother wind that keeps the world spinning caresses my scales as I fly across the moon and bring warnings and hopes to the fiery heart of the world ; when I can dance aloft at dawn , so that the rising sun turns my every scale to a pure diamond and the tides and rhythms of the oceans slow down in delight . |
| 13 | ‘ Although the heavy work is carried out by landscape contractors I love it when I can get out and add a few personal touches , ’ she says . |
| 14 | And erm , you do n't know this , but when , when I used to go round there , he used to moan about all , no , he did n't moan , but |
| 15 | when I used to go up you know for a pint of snowball he say pint of snowball , some of the , what they call 'em |
| 16 | going down towards er , when I used to go down towards |
| 17 | My parents used to ignore me when I used to go home and tell them I 'd won a race . |
| 18 | I 've just recently changed to Next but I used to buy them from Oxfam when I used to live here . |
| 19 | When I arrived at Wuthering Heights that afternoon , I was shocked to see how much worse the house looked than when I used to live there . |
| 20 | ‘ I sometimes think now , Oh gawd , I must have really looked like a schlepp when I used to turn up at Motown or somewhere taking a punk rocky attitude with me . |
| 21 | When I used to turn down the corner of the strasse I heard her music . |
| 22 | When I used to wander round with erm |
| 23 | ‘ When I used to come here first of all I did n't know everybody like now . |
| 24 | She never got up the street , she , she , ai n't , could n't bike , he could n't bike , so I used to take the yeast and carry on with my round right the way down Soham Fen , Low Barn , Metton Cottages , that 's right in the middle of Fen , that used to , a farm used to belong to Mr er Sam then , you see , years ago and then when I used to come back , I used to have to call at Mrs and pick a loaf of bread up . |