Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [be] [verb] [adv prt] in " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 And , you know , the sort of things which you can remember , which I can remember , some of the glorious ones , one when I was working up in Lancashire , about this time of year when the , the new May Day Bank Holiday was announced in about nineteen seventy-two or three or something and through five editions of the Lancashire Evening Post was a headline which said ‘ New Pubic Holiday ’ .
2 When I was tipped back in the dentist 's chair
3 When I 'm coming down in that parachute , I 'm feeling pretty nervous , but it 's wonderful the way I can feel the audience reacting warmly towards me .
4 So I thought well I 'll carry one of these for when I 'm going out in my car to which , you know , and if somebody does come up to me I can use it in a positive manner while in a split second time for me , hopefully beca , cos of my range of work
5 Things do tend to get out of proportion when you 're shut up in the mountains .
6 Wear loose fitting clothing to protect your shoulders , arms and legs when you 're walking around in the sun .
7 when you 're brought up in the war you see , waste not , want not
8 When you are starting out in the music business there seems to be an impenetrable jungle of initials to understand : MCPS , PPL , MPA , PRS , BASCA , BMI , ASCAP ; the list seems endless ! so what are they all for ?
9 But it was easier to believe in the impossible when you were tucked up in bed and half-asleep , than when you were walking the wet , comfortless streets , and the bloke you loved was on a bus going in the opposite direction , staring hopelessly out of the window , and wondering how on earth he was ever going to marry you , with no savings and going into the Army next week and a widowed mother who imagined herself an invalid and hated you for taking away her son .
10 Straining away from him , gasping with tortured gratification , she found that it seemed the most natural thing in the world to her when she was swept up in his arms and carried through into the bedroom , to be laid gently down on the soft duvet .
11 She was a big clumsy woman in middle age , her figure gone , a greedy eater , probably greedy about everything , greedy in the way clouds were greedy when they obscured the sun , just when she was sitting out in their neat little garden in Chadlington Road .
12 And going up to John O'Groats and right into past Castle May where the Queen Mother has and into the church where sh where the royalty goes when they 're living up in up in Castle May At er well er Johnnie Groat is buried there too .
13 ‘ My grandmother says when they 're curled up in a circle with their tails in their mouths , that 's a symbol of eternity , ’ said Emily .
14 Some — like that of Ryno the medic , exhausted and saddened after a struggle to save the life of a fellow constable — show how very young most men are when they are caught up in armed conflicts .
15 When they were riding up in the lift , Damian said , ‘ I think we should go over the minutes together . ’
16 Only when they were sitting down in the chop-house and Dr Neil had ordered them soup and rolls , followed by lamb chops with seasonal vegetables , and a glass of red wine each — ‘ Good for your shattered nerves , ’ he said gravely — and they were waiting for the soup to arrive did Sally-Anne have time to look about her .
17 These cornerstones remain as firm in principle now as when they were laid down in 1981 , or when the blueprint was drawn in 1978 .
18 I enjoy my Stag most when it is loafing along in overdrive ( the DIY box has longer legs than the automatic ) , exhaust burbling as only a twin-pipe V8 can burble .
19 The pressure exerted on that front foot when it is brought down in the bowling action is something like 10 times the bodyweight .
20 Long involved in Institute affairs , he headed its Taxation Committee from 1978 , became a Council member in 1988 and was a founder member of the Tax Faculty when it was set up in 1991 .
21 This had been the intention of The New Order in 1908 and many of its contributors were enthusiastic backers of the Unionist Social Reform Committee when it was set up in 1911 .
22 He was asked to leave Ferrari 's rather funereal office while a major argument took place ; when he was invited back in , he was told Reutemann would be the team 's Number One driver .
23 Bremner once tried to rile an opponent by drawing attention to his pock-marked face by shouting ‘ Go and get it filled in with polyfilla ’ , but the crunch came when he was sent off in 1967 for fouling the Nottingham Forest keeper Grummitt .
24 He experienced the joy of scoring Omagh 's first two goals in the opening period but had the opposite feelings of emotion when he was sent off in the last minute .
25 Mike Marsh became the third Anfield star to be shown the red card in successive European Cup Winners ' Cup matches when he was sent off in the closing stages of the defeat against Spartak Moscow on Wednesday .
26 AN old lag has vowed to go straight — because police treated him so kindly when he was banged up in their station .
27 Quite how he was supposed to stand up for himself when he was tied up in a wicker laundry basket which had been left under a running shower was another matter .
28 When he was growing up in Dearborn there was a succession of sad-sack , embarrassing ( to a fan of Johnny Unitas ) , old-world relations with funny accents who were constantly belly-aching about the war and — of course — the dreadful death and displacement which had taken place .
  Next page