Example sentences of "when i [verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I introduce myself to a class that I am working with for the first time I frequently begin by asking them to sit close by me on the floor and listen with their eyes shut to the sound of a pair of Indian bells struck together . |
| 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 | My results were received with general disbelief when I announced them at a conference near Oxford . |
| 5 | Some some of them were never in t I well I did n't know my aunt when I met her with a hat on . |
| 6 | The essay has since been listed in several bibliographies , and has exerted an influence which , when I composed it as a kind of riposte to the British Council 's purchase of the copyright of that crack-brained idea from its originator , C. K. Ogden , I could not have foreseen . |
| 7 | ‘ I clearly got up his nose when I asked him about a report which disputed his status as a big box-office draw , ’ says Barry . |
| 8 | but when I asked them for a crayon , |
| 9 | When I took her to a school for admission they sent us to the Education department . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | When I bought her as a young heifer , a friend went on and on about how small she was until I wondered if I was going to have a beast left at all by the time she had finished . |
| 12 | But I do n't think in gender terms at all when I interview someone for a job . |
| 13 | When I detained him by a greeting , he looked up a little puzzled , saying that he thought that we lived in Cornwall Gardens . |
| 14 | He enjoys it all with equal enthusiasm , and when I visited him in a small hut on Denham airfield where he was instructing ab initio pilots in Cessna 172s I detected the same dedication , pride and affection he has for all his aviation exploits . |
| 15 | A final upthrust of the North York Moors , they were virtually unspoilt when I roamed them as a boy in the 1950s . |
| 16 | ‘ But when I tried it as a young kid I could n't even hit the pitch for several years . |
| 17 | When I put her in a small paddock while I muck out , she licks the soil for about ten minutes . |
| 18 | When I used it with a 50lb rucksack there were no sweaty damp patches . |