Example sentences of "and when i [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tall , but not gigantic ; shorter than I am , in fact , and when I am in France I never find myself towering over people like a Gallic chieftain . |
| 2 | ‘ Hide under the table , mademoiselle , and when I am in my room I will bang on the floor and the coast will be clear . ’ |
| 3 | He goes on : ‘ I have no resources and when I am miserable I cry for desperation . ’ |
| 4 | However , as you know , most of my savings had vanished while I was unemployed and when I was offered a very nice flat near the school , the financial advantages of making that my single home base seemed overwhelming . |
| 5 | And when I was lucky enough to enjoy some rare hot weather my feet stayed as cool as I could have expected . |
| 6 | Marjorie does the books ; their son John runs the shop and helps with the coaching ; his wife Janie does the typing , and when I was in the office the lad who brought in the post said ‘ There you are , Grandad ’ and turned out to be John 's son , James . |
| 7 | And when I was fifteen I had to take all this craziness on my shoulders , there was so much imbalance out there , so much excess . |
| 8 | It is Eastern European in origin , and when I was in Hungary it seemed that every back garden was devoted to growing a mixture of dill and poppies . |
| 9 | My parents kept a baby book about me until I was sixteen , and when I was three and a half they wrote : ‘ Takes a great interest in her clothes and chooses her own outfit each morning . |
| 10 | They only wanted women and children , so Mam came to work here , and when I was big enough , I did too . |
| 11 | . And when I was beginning to grow up and I used to visit her . |
| 12 | I was nourished on stories like these ; William Wallace , slaying half a dozen English soldiers with his fishing rod ; Bruce , before Bannockburn , felling an English knight with one stroke from his slender battle-axe ; and when I was a boy I contracted a mortal dread of dying in bed . |
| 13 | At each turn of the zigzag , the wheelbarrow toppled , and when I was tacking into the wind , grit , picked up by the wheel was blown into my eyes and mouth . |
| 14 | I was cold into the bargain , and when I was dropping my shorts , I overbalanced because of the painful shin , and soiled myself and my clothes with diarrhoea . |
| 15 | ‘ And when I was up in the tree , ’ she added , gazing up at him , ‘ I saw a thief climb into the Botanical Gardens and dig up a lot of bulbs and put them in a big case and go off with them ! ’ |
| 16 | My father and mother slept in the room facing the street and when I was small my black cast-iron drop sided cot was placed next to the bed which had a never -forgotten picture over it . |
| 17 | Leeds was the first city I had ever visited and when I was taken by car to the television studios I had my first encounter with revolving doors , which I found rather strange . |
| 18 | ‘ I grew up in Australia , and when I was about fourteen I saw a guitar and that was it : I just fell in love , just totally obsessed . |
| 19 | I like boxing and when I was suspended in the summer of 1990 I took up boxing and accepted , perhaps too quickly , a fight against the then French light-heavyweight champion . |
| 20 | ‘ There is a brilliant atmosphere at the club now and when I was at Forest we did n't have this sort of camaraderie . ’ |
| 21 | The real , open rows , my sisters have since told me , came later and when I was away from home . |
| 22 | ‘ I am twenty-three years old , ’ Miss Honey said , ‘ and when I was born my father was a doctor in this village . |
| 23 | And when I was n't with her , like when I had to go to school and she had to stay behind in my bedroom until I came home , she was all I could think about . |
| 24 | This old hunting lodge began to deteriorate and when I was last there only one room was habitable . |
| 25 | And when I was throwing my rackets and talking to the umpire it was breaking my concentration . |
| 26 | ‘ I could n't 'elp it , misses , ’ he sobbed , ‘ bigger than me he was , this boy set about me and when I was on the floor he kicked me and took the boots away from me . |
| 27 | I 'm glad to say that in the Navy such luxuries were not a part of our conditions of service , and when I was ordered back to Germany in 1949 I had no option but to return . |
| 28 | I was working at a hospital in the out-patients ' department recently and when I was leaving at the end of my shift one day , I saw the following message pinned on the notice board , obviously from an extremely irate patient : ‘ Time is a great healer . |
| 29 | ‘ I had a test done and when I was told it was positive , my husband and I both knew , as if by some sort of sixth sense , that this was the baby that would make it . ’ |
| 30 | And when I was alone , in the Métro , I found a contract to sign . |