Example sentences of "[to-vb] when i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , Olive that used to work when I worked for Laura Ashley 's |
| 2 | I went to talk to RELATE when I had problems with my own marriage . |
| 3 | While I was afflicted with serious English composition and English literature , I was reading Scott , Fenimore Cooper , Henty , and the travellers , because I loved them ; I was also thinking and talking in a manner which owed little to those dignified exercises , though the day was to come when I spoke very much as I wrote … |
| 4 | They were the first big fish I tried to catch when I decided to be more selective with my fishing , and when I did catch a big chub on my first attempt it set the scene for my present angling outlook . |
| 5 | He looked very doubtful when I asked certain questions and laughed me to scorn when I gave my verdict . |
| 6 | Erm , but sole , we 're looking at sole proprietor as well , there 's some good things in that , I E they 're cheap to set up , stuff like that , so they 're not bad as they go , but , I suppose well I 'll have to sell when I 've got more money , I did n't get any replies today not a single blooming one , I 'm a bit cheesed off , so erm , I think I might ring back that one of the ones that I did get a reply from and say thank you . |
| 7 | But they adamantly refused to listen when I insisted that someone had been trying to kill me . |
| 8 | Them others , Dighton and the big fellow , they laughed fit to bust when I told 'em me name . |
| 9 | Oh , he , he always starts to whinge when I lay him down to do his coat up , he do n't like |
| 10 | A trumpet arrives offering a million ducats and freedom : I 'm not going to surrender when I know I 'm going to win anyway — or at least get supplies to hang on until something happens to Zacco . |
| 11 | It 'll be your turn to walk when I 've got the fruit and vegetables . |
| 12 | That will be something I need to discuss when I meet with managers prior to my return to work . |
| 13 | Third , although some comparison between my present experience and others is necessary for me to know what words to use in description , and although such comparison , especially in the case where the objects compared are a past and a present experience , is fallible ( since memory is fallible ) , still the comparison is not what I am trying to express when I try to express my beliefs about my present experience alone . |
| 14 | I did n't know what to expect when I came back to school . |
| 15 | It was an invitation to show work in the Arts Council 's ‘ Three Perspectives on Photography ’ show at the Hayward Gallery in 1979 which turned her back towards the family : ‘ I have never been asked to produce work for use in a gallery before , and had no idea what to expect when I showed it . |
| 16 | I knew nobody and had no idea of what to expect when I presented myself to the new teacher in my new black overall and white collar . |
| 17 | My Ma often did n't know where to look when I came out with things about Uncle Geordie and Auntie Julie . |
| 18 | How this can be done I have tried to elucidate when I wrote of hostility and anger , the depressive and schizoid positions . |
| 19 | A little later she indicates that I am partially returned to favour when I plan to write to The Times condemning the industrial action that was taken by the consultants : ‘ If he really produces this letter to The Times I shall begin to have some faith in him . ’ |
| 20 | Brought up well as I was actually born in the village and that 's where I 've come home to roost when I left the army . |
| 21 | Lathered up , started to shave when I come to clean it there were n't a bloody blade in the bastards had pinched it . |
| 22 | ' I ‘ 11 teach you how not to sleep when I get back . ’ |
| 23 | Then the scuffles subside and I think I hear my bedroom door opening , so my finger tightens on the trigger and I hear my name and I shake my head and I recognize the voice and I know it is Jancey and she 's shouting where am I and I think they 've grabbed her and made her act the decoy and I 'm trying to work out what to do when I hear what she 's saying . |
| 24 | ‘ Today I 'm able to square my profession with my religious beliefs , which I was n't able to do when I left acting , ’ he explains . |
| 25 | I 've just got a big case full of paperwork to do when I get |
| 26 | Lucy had looked at her aunt in puzzled silence before saying , ‘ No doubt I could find this place — but what on earth do you expect me to do when I get there ? ’ |
| 27 | What does that sleaze-bag of a gilgul expect me to do when I announce my presence to a quivering subject ? |
| 28 | To think that was what the poor fella was going to do when I saw ‘ n pass my door Monday morning ! ’ |
| 29 | You did n't have to focus some kind of internal microscope , as you seemed to do when I challenged you . |
| 30 | All I 've got to do when I give the tape back is |