Example sentences of "when [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It soon became clear that I could no longer rely on friends for help with everyday chores , like shopping and housework , when I needed it . |
| 32 | ACET SCOTLAND : ‘ WHO WILL CARE FOR MY CHILDREN WHEN I DIE ? ’ |
| 33 | He recalls , ‘ When I was sentenced I thought I 'd be killed straight away . |
| 34 | Even when I went to prison it was n't explained to me . |
| 35 | I remember feeling really happy when I was told I had at least six or seven years to live . |
| 36 | ‘ When I see the Giotto frescoes at Padua I do not trouble to recognise which scene in the life of Christ I have before me , but I perceive instantly the sentiment which radiates from it and which is instinct in the composition in every line and color . |
| 37 | When I was twelve I was obsessed . |
| 38 | You 'll guess what happened when I say that I am now commanding the Company — and in the line I had a seraphic boy-lance-corporal as my sergeant-major . |
| 39 | I do n't take the cigarette out of my mouth when I write ‘ Deceased ’ across their letters … |
| 40 | An' if you mus ' know I like wearin' nice clothes an' I like the way boys look at me when I go down the schtreet an' I like to look sexy an' I like lipstick an' showin' meself off an' all that I enjoy it . |
| 41 | I finished by playing Isabella in a production of Women Beware Women in a 1950 's style which may have helped when I came to my Ophelia , which was loosely based on a Princess Di concept . |
| 42 | It was all terrifically exciting and when I got the parts I could hardly believe it . |
| 43 | When I went to drama school it was all very new to me so I did n't have any real comparisons to make — which is a good thing . |
| 44 | Well , my first job came during four weeks of my last term at RADA when I had applied and been chosen for a television play called It 's Too Late to Talk to Billy which was set in Belfast — which is where I came from originally . |
| 45 | Again , there were difficulties with Equity when I was selected and the whole thing had to go to arbitration because the company stood out for the casting it wanted . |
| 46 | We had next to none when I was at drama school and young actors need to know more about what will be expected of them on film sets and television studios . |
| 47 | When I came to train properly I was already aware of the professional background . |
| 48 | When I visit drama schools now — and I firmly believe the professional actor is someone who should remain in touch with students — it 's a matter of trying to help future actors to gain a clearer focus on the profession they are joining . |
| 49 | When I did Nurse Ratchett in One Flew Over The Cuckoo 's Nest up in Manchester I read the novel and found a speech in the book that was really wonderful on the character and I asked the director if I could read it for him . |
| 50 | When I got my first job out of training it was at Worthing in a juvenile leading role and I got my Equity card because I had been chosen . |
| 51 | When I went to Webber Douglas they practically fell on any man as a rare species . |
| 52 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 53 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 54 | Nevertheless , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , I think that this needs saying , quite calmly and objectively , in this commentary , which will not spare me when I have done badly or in the wrong spirit or left half-done , but will not either , in a spirit of false modesty , gloss over those things in my life and work which have been a success , even , mildly , a triumph . |
| 55 | The pretence that this is not so is what makes me sick , he wrote , when I look at the works of the past . |
| 56 | When I got back home there was H. , in the living-room , pleased as Punch . |
| 57 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , you may keep your door closed and not answer when I ring the bell , you may refuse to answer my letters or return my calls when I leave a message on your answering machine , but sooner or later we are bound to meet and this time I will not let you fob me off with a smile . |
| 58 | When I got back I sat in front of the big glass with the door shut and the lights off , till dawn . |
| 59 | All a dream and the glass was as smooth and blank as when I first installed it . |
| 60 | Goldberg 's face when I told him , he wrote . |