Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] when i [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not often the same policeman , and I gained that experience when I found the way that they were examining property , the way they attended to accidents and street disturbances and they were pretty tough customers and I learnt a lot . |
| 2 | ‘ A particularly heartening statistic when I checked the figures before I came to the Netherlands was that this market — with a relatively small population of only 15 million inhabitants — continues to be the biggest export market for Wedgwood in Continental Europe , ’ he said . |
| 3 | As you will know I may make a reference under this section when I desire the opinion of the Court , not on the whole case but on a point arising on it . |
| 4 | I had half-managed to con a colleague in the Press-box into believing that the Brewongle Stand was named after an old left-arm spinner from Parramatta named Bluey Brewongle when I saw the dark-green uniforms emerging from the pavilion , and the emotions crowded in with a sudden impact . |
| 5 | A site where building was going on with real devotion when I visited the town in August was on the once bare hillside near the old cemetery . |
| 6 | I sensed that little hesitation when I floated the subject of his double chin . |
| 7 | ‘ Friends at work were telling me I was a lucky so-and-so when I won the trip — but their comments were unrepeatable when they found out I had won the car as well . ’ |
| 8 | So it was a big cheering surprise when I opened the front door of Eva 's house one day to find Uncle Ted standing there in his green overalls , a bag of tools hanging from his fist , smiling all over his chopped face . |
| 9 | This was the one occasion when I missed the clearer control which a conductor , rather than a performing director , could have brought . |
| 10 | This was the first occasion when I experienced the disillusion of actually seeing a place I had come to love through a poem — that had been , in Drinkwater 's phrase , ‘ lissom in a dream ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ I was shutting the front door when I heard the phone ring . |
| 12 | Peter had set aside this one bottle when I won the Catalan Open in 1989 and said that he would open it when I won my next Tour event . |
| 13 | The five-star novelist gave me an unfathomable glimmer when I closed the car door for her and remarked that she 'd had a long chat with Harry that afternoon on the telephone . |
| 14 | I went back to the beginning and started over , but had n't come to any conclusion when I reached the sign telling me that the Florabelle served the thickest steak in five counties . |
| 15 | There was just going to be one big thud when I hit the deck and then all would be over — my arm would stop hurting and no more 109s could make dirty passes at me behind my back . |
| 16 | I am on common ground when I remind the House that this case was immensely serious . |
| 17 | At the time I was mucking out the byre stalls , and piling the manure on top of my big heap when I saw the lights go on in the house . |
| 18 | I was led to see that there was much dis-ease within me , and exhorted to have my own counsellor when I left the Centre . |
| 19 | ‘ I used to have to get out of bed to cry every night and was in an awful way when I passed the Droppin' Well . |
| 20 | having had rather a nasty shock when I had the car serviced the other day . |
| 21 | an awful lot of pressure if your name is in it , but I got a special pleasure when I organized the reading from Salman Rushdie 's book . |
| 22 | I will expand on this dichotomy between the clean and the polluted in the next chapter when I detail the ethnography of being a ‘ real polis ’ ; however , these few examples indicate the cultural preference and the conceptual challenge which our appearance must have presented as we embraced aspects of the bodily style of our ‘ counter-cultural ’ antagonists . |