Example sentences of "when i [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " When I was dealing with the men personally I generally got them to see matters from my point of view , but unfortunately I could not stay in any one port for any length of time ; my subordinates did not have the same control over men as I did " . |
| 2 | When I was speaking t very very briefly erm to Ian before before I came down he said , well I 'm really not surprised , the the the continuing problem and difficulty in establishing what 's on the palette , as to whether it 's lawn feed and weed , lawn feed and , for example . |
| 3 | Did you get that bit erm , when I was speaking to you about how everybody hates you and stuff ? |
| 4 | I had long wanted to visit St Kilda , and the opportunity of at least seeing the islands came when I was invited to join a National Trust cruise as a lecturer and sort of — ‘ general helper ’ . |
| 5 | I , I mean I went like this into dinner okay , and I suppose everyone was like what 's she doing in a skirt or whatever cos they were all like looking and then like half way when I was eating I could feel them all staring at me and laughing and Jim and that lot were laughing and I could see Charlie |
| 6 | ‘ When I was fired at , he missed and that gave me a love of life . ’ |
| 7 | When I was chided by someone for seeming oblivious of ‘ the magnitude of the accounting operation ’ I said that it was because of my consciousness of the magnitude of all other operations that I dared to make these demands of Mr Whalley , who perfectly understands in any case . |
| 8 | When I was swimming I went to change and I found a swimming costume . |
| 9 | ‘ The main thing I remember is just how deadly quiet the whole stadium went when I was tackled . |
| 10 | I met Dr Johannsen , the senior therapist at the local hospital , when I was hunting for wood on the beach at Cator . |
| 11 | As a writing partner he had two rare gifts : the ability to get us unstuck with some inspired off-the-wall conceit when I was enmeshed in very on-the-wall musings ; and in addition , the priceless talent of knowing whether something was funny or not . |
| 12 | I remember one occasion also when I was tracking an animal , a buffalo , with a Bushman . |
| 13 | David Thacker recalls a slightly different version : ‘ When I was shot down it was my first encounter with the enemy . |
| 14 | There was an occasion when I was umpiring a game of cricket . |
| 15 | My interest in MacDonald began when I was given a well-worn copy of his Unspoken Sermons . |
| 16 | In my early twenties I found that I would become aggressive when I was given a compliment . |
| 17 | Schoolgirl fantasies were fulfilled when I was given my own dressing room and bathrobe . |
| 18 | ‘ When I was given it I believed it came from Barbara Coleman . |
| 19 | When I was injured in the first match with Portsmouth at Fratton Park I did n't expect to be playing again in a fortnight . |
| 20 | Oh I 'm really pleased about that , cos last time on a , I was really disappointed I 'd been refused the course cos I thought oh , it 'll be right up my street that , cos when I was teaching full time I was quite into these er computers at the beginning and the one that went |
| 21 | ‘ Franca , girl , forgive me for walking in , I had the key , remember , from when you gave it to me when I was staying here when I was getting better . |
| 22 | When I was getting better , he told me some of the local news . |
| 23 | We were on holiday in the Aegean when I was getting better from this talking thing and she was reading Crime and Punishment , and I used to watch her toes and wonder which part she had got to . |
| 24 | I probably , I probably knelt on it when I was getting the computer . |
| 25 | When I was getting to know the Fen drains years ago I would fish three or four venues in a day and walk miles and miles to find swims and try things out . |
| 26 | Tell me something ; were you always prepared to sleep with me to get the jade , or was that a ploy to throw me off the scent when I was getting too close ? ’ |
| 27 | And then , when I was taking the exhibition down , a couple of women helped me and they said , ‘ Why are you so angry , dear ? ’ |
| 28 | Well when I was taking mares down into |
| 29 | Assuming that I 'd been able to drag the dinghy in a fairly straight line — though I might have gone astray a bit when I was stumbling in the mud — Joanna should be lying more or less straight ahead , and a good deal nearer than when I 'd left , for it was near high water then , and now it was about the last of the ebb . |
| 30 | I was very aware of that when I was watching — and partly researching — the 1987 General Election on television . |