Example sentences of "when i [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I turn in the saddle and point it out to him with vigorous gestures , his curiosity is aroused . |
| 2 | When I ran in Pinsk in 1985 , children in the street started to follow me , until officials told me to use a park . |
| 3 | When I lived in Dublin at the end of the Second World War , one of my friends was an obsessive film buff whose dramatic recall , frame by frame , of scenes such as the Odessa Steps sequence from Battleship Potemkin or the final chase in Fritz Lang 's M often hypnotized even the drunks in the bars we frequented . |
| 4 | Dear Mr Tatchell When I lived in Bermondsey , until my family were bombed out while I was fighting to protect my country from outside evils , we had a saying , Bermondsey was a place where men were men and women counted as ‘ manholes ’ and members of the ‘ Middlesex Regiment ’ would not be tolerated . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , when I lived in Sheffield I was a founder member of the North Midlands Labrador Rescue . |
| 6 | The late fifties and early sixties , when I lived in Windsor Great Park , were creative and critical in manner : the established order was questioned ( sometimes cynically ) , but it was assumed that well-directed idealism could change human society . |
| 7 | When I lived in southern France I used to sit out on the porch and watch the sun go down across the valley . |
| 8 | Mind you I would n't recommend having them next door like I did when I lived in South London . |
| 9 | When I lived in South London unscrupulous property developers were buying up the-freeholds of converted houses at auctions and raising the ground rents to astronomical figures in order to force people to sell back their flats to them . |
| 10 | At least back when I lived in a hole I knew everything there was to know about living in a hole , and now it 's a year later and I 'm at a place so far away I do n't even know how far away it is , watching something I do n't understand go to a place so far up there is no down . |
| 11 | I have only ever once paid out good cash for rocks , in an emergency when I lived in Reading ( good for free lime-rich gravel , but no local rocks at all ) and it hurt dreadfully . |
| 12 | I was not to attend St Stephen 's until years later , when I lived in the parish ; but meanwhile I had attended Tenebrae more than once , and had indeed found it beautiful and moving , with the abrupt strepitacula somehow reinforcing the effect . |
| 13 | Yes , I knew him when I lived in Falmouth five or six years ago … ’ |
| 14 | Teaching young children the right from wrong , and why the police are there and , accepting them as friends , like we did when I lived in the village . |
| 15 | When I played in the Wimbledon final , I knew that I had certain kinds of weaknesses . |
| 16 | Suppose that I have a sudden impulse to settle when I retire in the village where I was born ; but reality breaks in , I recognize that I had better remember it not as a nostalgic vision but as I indeed saw it before experiencing the city , admit to myself that it will have changed beyond recognition , try to anticipate living in it not as I am now but as an old man who no longer easily makes new friends , try to see myself through the villagers ' eyes as already a stranger who may no longer deserve a welcome . |
| 17 | When I sit in the room with it , he wrote , it 's like sitting in a room with a corpse . |
| 18 | He knows that the knickers I wear when I sit in the saddle are not the smartest articles of underwear in my wardrobe . |
| 19 | When I sit in my garden with the Duchess by my side , I sometimes think about my early life . |
| 20 | Is the weather as bad as people keep telling me because it was Okay when I drove in this morning . |
| 21 | ‘ When I served in France I witnessed such abominations outside Poitou . |
| 22 | When I stay in hotels around the world , do you know I get photos of naked women pushed under my door with phone numbers on them ? |
| 23 | When I intervened in the right hon. Gentleman 's speech he replied in such confusion that I thought it best to give him time to reflect , and to ask my question again later . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'll get a long , long rest when I get in me box , miss . |
| 25 | ‘ But when I get in the weight room at Chelsea , the other lads put me to shame . |
| 26 | And it 's same er when I get in bed , |
| 27 | When I get in there , they 'll be sorry they ever said that to you . ’ |
| 28 | She said for when I get in the car . |
| 29 | And and erm if I I 'm hoping I 'll like it when I get in there , but something tells me I would . |
| 30 | When I get in here there 's nice fire . |