Example sentences of "when i [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They caught me when I was off my mark , ’ she says . |
| 2 | Maybe I was less fortunate than my colleagues in my experience of Heathrow , but even my landlady in Twickenham was a most severe character , as mean as mustard with food and I seemed to live in the expensive Airport restaurant even when I was off duty . |
| 3 | ‘ Last night … when I was on guard , see . ’ |
| 4 | Ah , how touching ! thought Anna : it reminds me of Dmitri , when I was on a field trip in the Urals , that summer — oh , was it ‘ 66 or ‘ 67 ? |
| 5 | ‘ Two boys in Cincinnati when I was on vacation , and a boy named Mickey Swearinger and somebody else I do n't remember . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I used to know a pickpocket when I was on the beat a million years ago . |
| 7 | I 'm amazingly affluent compared with a few years ago , especially when I was on the dole for three years . |
| 8 | P. A. I got called as a witness in a motoring case , and it came up when I was on nights and I had to get up and call in the solicitor . |
| 9 | When I was on the motor cycles , he used to collar me to take him home for lunch . |
| 10 | Once she came in about 4pm when I was on duty , face glowing from the blustery west wind , and said eagerly , ‘ I see the flare path 's all lit up . |
| 11 | They each had a radiator beside their beds , and very often when I was on night duty J. would return to bed very late ( or should I say early ? ) , after having been sitting with me in the Met Office , drinking coffee , chatting and so forth . |
| 12 | Luckily I 'd had some speed earlier : when I was on blues I could get through anything . |
| 13 | ‘ When I was on maternity leave one of these former partners asked me if I wanted some work , mainly dealing with the directors ’ personal tax affairs . |
| 14 | She came into Dorothy when I was on days there at the end of my first year . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | Well there was one sad part was n't it that when I was on my in training during the and the rockets and so in classrooms and had a lecturer talking to us and erm this lad come in with a message from the teleprint and erm give it to the instructor , and he 'd call a name and the chap would go out . |
| 17 | Cos when I was on the Hertfordshire Environmental of the group which has folded |
| 18 | Some years ago when I was on the edge of Christianity , I spoke to a large gathering about the problematic nature of the Godhead for women . |
| 19 | Everybody knew and said I should leave , but it 's not so easy to leave your home and all the furniture I 'd bought when I was on the railway . |
| 20 | You went to work by yourself but you had to be taken to the hospital , and when I was on Martin it was right next door . |
| 21 | When I was on my own I 'd take a breath |
| 22 | There were other dogs down the years , but the time came when I was on my own , and got a bit low financially , so I was not able to afford one . |
| 23 | We may have met a long time ago at Rotherfield when I was on a weekend outing from school , but I would n't expect you to remember — it was at least 10 years ago and I ca n't imagine I was a memorable schoolgirl ! |
| 24 | I , I , er I used to have an inspector when I was on traffic and he says you take care of the little things and the big things will take care of themselves . |
| 25 | That 's in the oh a lot of people did , oh yes , lot of people spent the money but I was one of the fortunate ones I had a little bit left because I mean I was , er I was very lucky myself , I mean I had a decent job at that time from time I left school and when I was on the dredging plant , I mean you take er in nineteen twenty five when er a schoolboy left school , his money was about ten shillings a week as an errand boy but I was one of the fortunate being a cabin boy on the dredger , I was getting thirty five shillings a week which was a lot of money and then after a few months they , I , they wanted another deck hand , so of course I went on there on four pound a week and then I was well off . |
| 26 | and would hang about for two or thr I mean when I was on the dredger them men would st they would come aboard the dredger and wait there , do nothing until the boat came up the river . |
| 27 | I mean I bought one or two pair of clogs when I was on the dredger and we 'd take the iro iron piece off underneath , that 's just like a , a shoe what a horse have , like go round the |
| 28 | " The wife did n't guess till it slipped out when I was on the sauce the other night . |
| 29 | When I was on my own I would feel sad and would not eat properly . |
| 30 | And for another thing , he began to take an interest in me just when I was on the rebound from a very unhappy love affair — the kind of let-down that alters not just your life but even your nature . |