Example sentences of "when i [verb] [pron] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of the day I thought it looked very attractive , but whether it will catch the eye of a customer when I display it on the craft stall is another matter . |
| 2 | As I say , I only get 36 off the social and when I get it on a Monday , I usually spend 30 right away on food for the kids . |
| 3 | ‘ I mean to go to Italy one day , as my brother has done , ’ she told me , when I discovered her on a stone bench in the garden , reading a book . |
| 4 | ‘ She looked well enough to me when I saw her on the cake section of the WI stall yesterday morning ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I promised myself I 'd smash his handsome face when I saw him on the prison-ship . |
| 6 | One of these papers was a recent statement by the county education committee that no change in the status of the grammar school was contemplated : on that basis , I was able to reassure my anxious colleagues , when I met them on the first day of term , that abrupt change was not imminent . |
| 7 | When I met you on the road to Hay last night , I almost thought you had put a spell on my horse ! |
| 8 | When I rest it on the table it shudders and then sighs . |
| 9 | ‘ Beware the falconer with the clean glove , ’ they say , and certainly I was looking forward to getting my glove dirty — at least metaphorically — with some practical experience when I booked myself on a falconry course on Bodmin Moor in the summer of 1988 . |