Example sentences of "when i [verb] at [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In future when I land at anything other than properly documented airfields I will ask the question : Are there any other runways or strips that look like runways in the vicinity that could be mistaken for the active runway ? |
| 2 | The wind was high when I knocked at her door , and I heard a voice from within that I knew not what to make of , though it sounded like the lullaby of a Mother to her Baby . |
| 3 | There were two Frenchmen in the corner with shifty eyes and scarred faces who looked away when I stared at them , and a friendly Scandinavian with a tan and fine blond hair who shook my hand and said , ‘ France fucking shit , yes ? ’ |
| 4 | When I flopped at my first job , I was so fed up with myself I thought I was n't worth any decent firm 's money , so I went off and got a frightful job working in a dirty old canteen , just to punish myself , sort of . |
| 5 | Good progress was made on the Saturday but when I looked at what still remained for Sunday , I thought we 'd do well to finish half the distance . |
| 6 | When I looked at her her eyes had tears in them like my own . |
| 7 | When I looked at him , there were tears in his eyes , and he said , ‘ It 's not us who 'll have the problem , Mum . |
| 8 | When I looked at him , he laughed : blah blah Killer blah . |
| 9 | When I looked at him in the darkness , I began to wonder if all of what he had told me earlier could be some trick on me , played by the spirits who had sent him . |
| 10 | He was on his front when I looked at him . |
| 11 | When I 'm about to tell you a story , I thought to myself well stories that Jesus used to tell were parables and when I looked at them in the bible they had a kingdom meaning to them . |
| 12 | Yeah , I know One pair of those tights were seven ninety nine , it 's no wonder I thought they were nice when I looked at them . |
| 13 | He seemed bright enough and very eager to learn , but when I went to the school to see his work I found that his handwriting was very , very bad and his spelling was absolutely atrocious , and although he was good at mathematics , as time went on he began to get very worried and very upset about it and when I looked at his work I realized that he was doing a lot of the words back to front and was getting the direction of figures mixed up . |
| 14 | When I looked at my watch I was amazed to see that it was well after six . |
| 15 | But I found when I looked at my books a week ago , or a fortnight ago , I thought , oh I know this , I know this , but it 's not until you get into it that you think shit ! |
| 16 | When I looked at it , I cried out in spite of myself . |
| 17 | When I looked at it , I held it close to my eyes . |
| 18 | I felt a bit gutted myself when I looked at it . " |
| 19 | Chairman chairman there seem to be when I looked at it there seem to a number of headings here that I could n't account for and I 've asked the chair of the finance committee , she could n't account for them either , and I think it 's , whilst I understand the reasons for going and I 'm sure we would have approved them , I think it 's actually quite important that all these small sums , wh when you add them up over this erm over this month and you look at them , are quite large over the budget that we have have already adopted and the things that we wanted to do , and it concerns me that some of these things which are maybe very sensible , actually reduce our effectiveness of doing things that the council 's agreed that they are going to do this year and next year , the seventy six pounds here , the thirty pounds later on , fifty four pounds for large thorn plants et cetera , et cetera , and a hundred and fifty pounds over the budget on the Christmas lights . |
| 20 | well I , getting back to the picture you see , I , when I looked at it I thought good god it 's our Bill , I , I you could of thought it were twin brothers when I |
| 21 | must be when I looked at it they 'd been grown in the field , because it 's burnt , you can see it 's got this reddish muck where all the mud down |
| 22 | Central heating That were n't even on when I looked at it . |
| 23 | He said when I looked at it was coming backwards . |
| 24 | when I looked at it I wanted to do it . |
| 25 | Then she do n't like it when I snap at her . |
| 26 | and even when I yell at him times he 's gone , you know , I do n't know |
| 27 | The new shithouse clerk , a small , wiry Liverpudlian , was taking his new appointment very seriously when I arrived at his canvasstructured place of work . |
| 28 | When I smile at her , I try to make it a fatherly smile . |
| 29 | He likes me though , as I said , and when I smile at him and beg for tales of executions , he laughs and laughs ! ’ |
| 30 | I think she spotted me , in spite of the glare of the footlights for when I called at her dressing room back-stage after the show she did not seem surprised to see me . |