Example sentences of "when i [was/were] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tell me something ; were you always prepared to sleep with me to get the jade , or was that a ploy to throw me off the scent when I was getting too close ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Franca , girl , forgive me for walking in , I had the key , remember , from when you gave it to me when I was staying here when I was getting better . |
| 3 | Yes I well remember er I use when I was staying down at Trimley there was erm a lady there who worked in the Billeting Department , who ca who herself was evacuated from London and er , I used to catch the same bus with her but she never would speak to me , erm and erm one morning er she lived down at Curton and one morning they had some erm er German planes over Curton and they were doing some machine gunning and that sort of thing and erm and we met at the bus stop and she was full of it and erm that sort of broke the ice it was |
| 4 | A few days ago when I was hooked up to a foetal monitor , a midwife rushed in , not to ask how I was , but to see if I knew the latest on the war . |
| 5 | One of my best catches of big bream , five to 11lb 1oz and only one less than 9lb at 8lb 14oz , came when I was fishing alone . |
| 6 | Sue likes me … lots of people like me … when I was helping out at the meat counter the other week , Jim said we should go bowling one night . |
| 7 | You know on Saturday , er it was when I was thinking how about a , you know , cos we were thinking of going shopping in the afternoon |
| 8 | I liked to find my own stories — and I was just beginning to place the best of them in national papers when I was whisked off for two years ' National Service . |
| 9 | You know , when I was bringing up my children in the early seventies I read about the the mergence of the new working woman , you know , how to balance a career and a home and children , and I could n't for the life of me think what was new about this working woman ! |
| 10 | ‘ In the primary-school playground , of course , when I was singled out to stand in the centre of a ring while a dozen sweet-faced little girls danced round me chanting ‘ Shannon 's dad 's a robber . ’ ' |
| 11 | Well they were selling pot pourris when I was queuing up to get , |
| 12 | I found in that chemist shop when I was looking there er , refill Nutrene . |
| 13 | About twelve years later , when I was looking back on that meeting with Dana , I wrote the following poem : |
| 14 | " I 'm afraid of what she 'll do , " the man says when I was looking in through the window , and then the other woman goes up to him and starts loving him . |
| 15 | and , and Northbrooks ever since it was built right next door to me when I was living there er , many years ago and er get the , the new development done , and so that I do n't think we should hold on . |
| 16 | Then , when I was grown up I saw the film The Sinking of the Titanic and it brought back the terror . |
| 17 | I gazed at this scene thinking that of all of the things I wanted when I was grown up , the one I wanted most was to play a harmonium . |
| 18 | When I was sorting out his clothes yesterday I found this . ’ |
| 19 | It was eighty six when I was sent up to with it . |
| 20 | I had no premonition of disaster when I was sent off to answer a call from a Mrs Dunston . |
| 21 | Well I think it yeah because when I was filling in th |
| 22 | I mean as I said when I was filling in the questionnaire I was thinking well this , really this is my preference and you know I 'd much rather be in a job that allowed me some flexibility . |
| 23 | I woke to manoeuvre a rock under the groundsheet , then to put cream on my burning ears , later to pull my knees up to my chin to get warm , then to eat some dates , and finally when I was called out by diarrhoea . |
| 24 | But when I was strung out , I 'd have done almost anything … . |
| 25 | Certainly when I was setting up my studio in the country , the nice thing was that we did n't do anything standard ; we did n't take anything for granted , whether it was mics , positions of drums or anything . |
| 26 | ‘ When I was setting up the Fine Chemicals Manufacturing Organization [ FCMO ] in the early '80s , there was no doubt quality was the main way to compete more effectivey and raise performance . |
| 27 | It was a relief when I was moved on to the Sports Desk ; these were gains and losses of a different kind and they did n't involve people getting killed . |
| 28 | I have seen it when I was tidying up |
| 29 | ‘ When we were first married , I knew you would have to spend quite a lot of time on your own , when I was tied up with business affairs . |
| 30 | But I did n't know if I 'd done something wrong when I was taken away from my mother . ’ |