Example sentences of "when i [verb] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not find any improvement in actual dollars spent on maintenance when I compared an object-oriented system written in 350,000 lines of C++ with a comparably complex product written in 1.25 million lines of C code . |
| 2 | When I join an organization I do not have a relationship with everyone . |
| 3 | When I received an unexpected invitation , I do n't know how , to deliver the opening address of an important conference on Germanic studies at Göttingen dedicated to ‘ Controversies ancient and modern ’ , I chose to raise this issue , which seemed so crucial to me . |
| 4 | When I received an answer from a Mrs Fairfax , who wanted a governess for a girl under ten years old , I accepted , with the permission of the new headmistress of Lowood . |
| 5 | One morning I was driving along the road when I saw an old man frantically waving a walking stick at passing cars . |
| 6 | I worked in Norwich for two years and got my City and Guilds in hairdressing , but when I saw an advertisement for a receptionist 's job at a local company ( now ) I jumped at the chance . |
| 7 | In March , on a visit to Leatherhead , I was walking around the JS branch when I saw an old customer . |
| 8 | I would appreciate it if the two gentlemen who stopped to help me when I had an accident with my car on the road near Dounreay on 1/12/92 would contact me — Ellen Campbell , Reay 345 . |
| 9 | And that may be okay in a departmental level but when I had an integrated global enterprise operating in integrated fashion around an integrated I T system then clearly I can not afford to allow a failure to actually paralyze the system . |
| 10 | Selecting another piece of grass , he said : ‘ Anyway , I stayed awake until about four this morning , going over and over it in my mind , and when I woke an hour or so later , I had one almighty headache … bloody brass band playing inside the old brainbox … flashing lights before the eyes … the lot ! |
| 11 | I was a believer until about my fourteenth birthday , when I heard an Easter service on the radio . |
| 12 | Especially when I know an inferiority complex when I see one . |
| 13 | You see , when I became an inspector on the railway eventually , it was like a fire being damped down . |
| 14 | I was soaked and shivering and was about to return in a desultory spirit to my hotel to take whatever food was offered there at whatever price , when I noticed an indoor shopping centre and darted in , shaking myself out like a dog . |
| 15 | What I do remember , however , is my unease when I noticed an advertisement at the foot of the page : Anti-semitic pamphlets sent post-free to interested readers . |
| 16 | For one thing , the attitudinist view escapes an objection to subjectivism made by Moore that if when I say an action is bad I report my negative feelings towards it , and when you say it is good you report your positive feelings towards it , then there is no disagreement between us ( since we will probably both agree that the other has the feelings he reports ) which Moore thought an absurdity . |
| 17 | Similarly when I recall an experience of fear , the question of the existence or non-existence of the object of fear need not enter into my consideration , for the experience itself may be my exclusive concern . |
| 18 | The change in my approach to mathematics began when I joined an in-service Diploma in Mathematics Education.2 In the first week I was given the task of making a 3 x 3 x 3 wooden cube made up of three different pentacubes and three different tetracubes . |
| 19 | I remember on numerous occasions , when I entered an adult conversation at the table with a remark of my own , he would ask , ‘ Did anyone ask for your opinion ? ’ |
| 20 | When I opened an upstairs window and looked into the ravine ( this was in winter , so it was easy to see the tracks ) , Zverev 's works , and those of some other artists , were lying out in the snow . |
| 21 | So once you get towards , take a clock in , make sure you pace yourself , and say at the end of that just put in a sort of sentence to make it look as if it 's been finished off Erm , what I usually do when I do an exam is I spend the first five minutes actually looking at the questions because initially you look for the ones that you 've revised and you see but there may be others there , there 're you can do in a slightly different way than the way that they first appear and that might help you quite a bit , although there are no trick questions in this . |
| 22 | But unfortunately , when I did an interview with you , it is possible that you might actually refer to an article in the Yellow Pages . |
| 23 | How could it be otherwise , when I have an almost tame squirrel that happily hops about the borders when I 'm feeding or digging ? |
| 24 | My frustration came to a head when I read an advert in a well known weekly which was for an attractive 1948 Series One the price of which has VAT added How can this be ? |
| 25 | The same feeling broke in when I read an answer that the President of Venezuela gave at a press I conference . |
| 26 | When I won an essay competition in 1957 on " Why I was proud to be a citizen of Leeds " , organised by the Variety Club of Great Britain and the local evening paper , the big event in my London visit was not Buckingham Palace , nor having Norman Wisdom put his arm round me , but gazing at a skiffle group which had played in the 21's coffee bar with Tommy Steele . |