Example sentences of "[adv] when i [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then , of course , I was n't able to attend much when I was left on my own after Mother and Uncle Tommy died and I had all the milking and farmwork to do myself . |
| 2 | ‘ I get a lot of laughs from everyone who sees me , especially when I 'm going across long grass and all they can see is an airline captain coming towards them at great speed with exhaust smoke coming from my rear end . |
| 3 | So when I was ushered into his consulting room , it was his welfare that concerned me as much as my own . |
| 4 | So when I was confronted by the station warrant officer ( SWO ) in my very best turnout I was somewhat aggrieved at his tirade about my flouting regulations when a strange apparition approached , an airman acting as the station Postman . |
| 5 | In fact , barn owls are reckoned to be one of the hardest breeds to hand-rear and train , and they are n't recommended for beginners — though I did n't know that then , What I did know was that I 'd probably lost the battle with this owl before I 'd started : I suspected he would be impossible to train , but I was so hooked on the idea of having my own bird that I could hardly drag myself away when I was looking at him . |
| 6 | Speaking of luck , there 's a colt I want to buy not far from Lexington — came up for sale just when I was thinking of getting in some new blood . |
| 7 | Cos one of the things that I said , you know , just when I was looking through the last five or six months is that it did seem er , to be inconsistent in terms of certain areas like the first floor , there 's an awful lot of reporting going on but , there was very little from the other , from the other areas . |
| 8 | But just when I was feeling at home in the loin-cloth and boot polish , and when I 'd learned my lines before anyone else and was getting as competent as a little orangutan on the scaffolding , I saw that our conflicts had n't ended . |
| 9 | At least not when I 'm passing on that cost to you the users and as any cost increase will decrease the use of further track closures will follow . |
| 10 | It started all wrong with an aggravating incident indoors when I was to run against the American Mel Lattany and Earl Tulloch . |
| 11 | Peter : Why did you go backwards when I was coming to you ? |
| 12 | " Do n't you dare walk off when I 'm talking to you , Timothy Amsterdam . |
| 13 | Once when I was leaving for Europe , he came to see me off at the airport , bringing a parting gift . |
| 14 | I had a curious brush with the law myself once when I was sent by my employer to attend a day seminar on drugs to be given at the local university by a police sergeant . |
| 15 | Once when I was looking out the back of the palace and shots around the back and a shell hit the palace , so it came in my eyes and it hit |
| 16 | She caught me once when I was drunk in school . |
| 17 | I mean you look at , see I I 've had , I felt like when I was coughing at work I felt like sitting there and I thought I ca n't believe this . |
| 18 | Later , months later when I was taken into town for the first time since The Bomber , I wanted to put some flowers on her grave . |
| 19 | ‘ And he went to the degree of saying , when I pressed him , how are we going to stay in this business ; he said , Albert , for all I know right now when I am talking to you , we could be finished with the business ; I do n't know . ’ |
| 20 | I got to know it pretty well when I was living in Sheffield and I 'd recommend anyone to take a walking holiday there . |
| 21 | The words probably , likely and unlikely litter the text , even when I am talking about what is widely regarded as fact . |
| 22 | ‘ Even when I 'm playing in the reserves it 's a chance to impress , ’ he said . |
| 23 | ‘ Even when I 'm playing in the reserves it 's a chance to impress , ’ he said . |
| 24 | I was able to recall perfectly quite long sequences of words even when I was exposed to each for little more than twenty milliseconds . |
| 25 | Even when I was going to school I was doing gigs , and when I finished with school I was doing gigs , and when I finished with school I realised that I was able to get by with just the gigs . |
| 26 | Some four and a half years ago when I was elected as a branch secretary of a fairly substantial branch in the Birmingham Region , I had two hours with the then finance officer and he said , well it did n't last the two hours , and he said er , well you know all there is to know now , about how to run this branch . |
| 27 | My most valuable experience was a few years ago when I was living in a dingy student room in Grenoble . |
| 28 | I became involved with him some years ago when I was consulted by Lord Rayne who told me that he had a friend — a leading paediatrician in London — whose daughter was in serious trouble . |
| 29 | I went to see The Wild One many many years ago when I was thinking about becoming an actor and thinking maybe it was a bit of a poofy thing to do , and Marlon Brando was standing in front of this juke box and he had ‘ New York Rebels ’ on the back of his leather jacket and this girl came up and said , ‘ What are you rebelling against , Johnny ? ’ and he says ‘ What have you got ? ’ and I thought , ‘ Yeah , that 's my man , I 'll do that . ’ |
| 30 | Yes , that was some time ago when I was working as a hostess with the British Council and used to collect meet VIPs at the station and bring them here to the university . |