Example sentences of "did when i was " in BNC.
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| 1 | They know there 's no way I can play as I did when I was No 1 in the world but hopefully with more matches which will give me more confidence , they will see me play good tennis ’ . |
| 2 | Already in his first novel , Boccalone ( 1979 ) , widely recognized as the best to come out of the youth movement of the late 1970s , Palandri had shown an extraordinary ability to create sufficient space for his characters , ‘ enrico ’ and ‘ anna ’ and their friends , to speak for themselves without being overwhelmed by the surrounding clutter or by the pretensions of ‘ literature ’ , pretensions from which the narrator keeps his distance : ‘ I do n't want to make big speeches , I never did when I was with anna and I was better off ; I just want to recount incidents and let the rest come out of that , if there actually is anything ’ ( Palandri 1979 : 124 ) . |
| 3 | As time went by the relief and pleasure at resuming a form of expression that ‘ seems to fit my thoughts better as I grow older , as it did when I was young also ’ became more obvious . |
| 4 | ‘ Probably not as much as I did when I was a kid ; the travelling part is hard . |
| 5 | ‘ If Brian Clough is still interested in me he will want to know if I cope as well during a bad spell as I did when I was enjoying a purple patch and scored 11 goals in 14 games earlier in the season . ’ |
| 6 | Then , as I often did when I was alone at sea , I began to recite Shakespeare . |
| 7 | As Ted Wragg says : ‘ this list of subjects I did when I was at school in the 1950s . |
| 8 | But does it live self-consciously , or blithely as it did when I was a child ? |
| 9 | Like I did when I was a boy . |
| 10 | My local authority has had to cope with that problem for many years , as I did when I was housing chairman of my local authority . |
| 11 | he did when I was n't acting thick . |
| 12 | But when you loved it , did n't you I mean I know I did when I was a young person first drinking erm I definitely had the feeling that if I was drinking to excess I was n't doing the right thing , whereas the impression we give in Oxford that drinking to the excess is perfectly acceptable behaviour . |
| 13 | Here in America I perform a lot in Las Vegas and Atlantic City and I probably make more money today than I ever did when I was selling a lot of records as a teenage idol . |