Example sentences of "[that] when i " in BNC.

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1 Fear that when I finally go in and face it , ready to start , the old revulsion will rise up in me again .
2 Fear that I have only dreamed of moving forward , that when I go in and face it I will see that it is a mistake , not possible , uninteresting .
3 This distrust of the social scientist is so deeply ingrained that when I was reading anthropology as an undergraduate and I was asked by my colleagues what subject I was reading , I knew that I would have to prevaricate or face problems .
4 This acquisition of special knowledge meant that when I was called to give evidence to the Advisory Council on Drug Abuse ( chaired by Baroness Wooton ) on the use of cannabis , I was perhaps more inclined to dwell on the symbolic dangers attributed to its use than on any alleged physical harm , simply because I was now aware that any reality in relation to cannabis use was more complex than could be contained in some easy binary of social value — medical debilitation .
5 Certainly , the idea that when I look at my spectacles and think ‘ So that 's where I put them ’ I am having thousands of other little thoughts at the same time is a silly idea , and some would say that the doctrine of the holism of the mental is just a silly idea .
6 ‘ When it was all over the papers I feared that when I went shopping people would abuse me , spit at me .
7 Yes , you said that when I saw you at the station , ha ! ha ! ’
8 But it also meant that when I left school at 14 it was not possible to think about finding a job or life away from the farm .
9 The only problem is : What happens if I find that when I 've bumped Myself off , there 's some kind of a , you know , All that mystical stuff about when you die , You might find you 're still — know what I mean ?
10 I was so purified and uplifted that when I came out and discovered my car had been towed away and I 'd have to fork out 70 quid , I was completely unruffled .
11 A spokesman : ‘ I have nothing new to say , except to say that when I do have something to say I will say it . ’
12 I learned that when I went to a conference at Sheffield .
13 First , I recall that when I was a theological student , having come from a fairly conservative church , I could not square up I Kings with I Chronicles .
14 ‘ I read that when I was sixteen — and it had , well , an almost mystic effect on me . ’
15 I always eat well at university at lunch time , including a pudding , because I know that when I get home I will have to eat minute quantities .
16 ‘ I said that when I 'd finished the Shaw book , I 'd disintegrate , ’ he told me .
17 I can say only that when I was at Bletchley the belief among my associates was that information had been received and that Ultra did not fail ; the intelligence it provided could not be fully acted upon for fear of betraying Ultra itself .
18 ‘ Of course it could be that when I said ‘ English expression ’ I meant expression in the English language .
19 Your Grace will therefore be so good as to allow me to ask you most humbly for my discharge … seeing that when I asked you for permission to travel to Vienna three years ago you graciously declared that I had nothing to hope for in Salzburg and would do better to seek my fortune elsewhere .
20 Dear Boy , It must be very difficult for you sometimes I expect not having anyone and having to do all the shopping and cooking for yourself I know that when I was working I certainly could not have managed on my own , coming home tired and then making dinner your own dinner and then going upstairs to do some more work , what sort of life is that , though I know all about that because of course I did do that for three years almost , and I know how much happier I was when I knew there was someone waiting for me and having the dinner ready and keeping the house clean and all those things , or perhaps you people do n't think those things are important .
21 Let me make clear that when I say the conference of 1923 , and that night in particular , constituted a turning point in my professional development , I am speaking very much in terms of my own more humble standards .
22 After a couple of days in his new home Skipper was much more relaxed ; he no longer jumped at every sound and soon learned that when I arrived on the yard in the morning , it meant food .
23 Although I was tempted to think that such a short time would make no difference , I knew that when I got near to Kano , if I got that far , every minute would count .
24 The point of the story is that when I was using softer rods and he favoured stiffer ones we both caught , relatively speaking , no fewer fish than we do today .
25 Attached to the bottom of the betalite , which is encased in a plastic tube for protection , is a length of braided terylene tied at the other end to my back rod-rest , so that when I strike the indicator pulls off and drops to the ground .
26 His full trunk , before any branch is reached is now massive , and such is his configuration that when I put my arms around him — which I do regularly — only one particular bough is hugged with ease .
27 For years I carried a secret guilt that when I had been wounded — and seven of my men killed — I had not done enough for them or those that remained .
28 I remember that when I had my first Meccano set , Dad made a simple hoist which was clamped to the table , a pulley was fixed to a hook above the mirror and my Teddy Bear used to go on trips up to the ceiling .
29 In fact , they were so well drilled that when I went to C Division — Essex Street — you 'd wait on the corner of a back street and there 'd be a crowd of fellers there and within no time , before you could get near them , they 'd all have disappeared .
30 I find that when I am stuck on a problem , a simple contemplation of different problem solving techniques can lead me to a new approach .
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