Example sentences of "[Wh adv] i [was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Yet this is how crying in infants is sometimes interpreted : the child is being naughty ; naughtiness is punished ; smacking is how I was punished as a child ; so I smack my baby . |
| 2 | I had a similar experience back in 1978 , when I was elected to the national executive committee of the Labour party . |
| 3 | ‘ The second occasion , of course , was when I was hit by a car in Monte Carlo on my third visit there … let me see , yes , it would have been twenty-seven years ago , three days before Christmas . |
| 4 | ‘ Of all the low points I suffered , one of the worst was when I was deprived of the chance of winning a third world cross country title because I was n't allowed to compete in 1988 , ’ explained the 26-year-old . |
| 5 | ‘ I lived my life in Siglo XX as described in the book until 1980 , when I was invited to a conference on women in Denmark . |
| 6 | And erm one day when I was digging in a vegetable garden , I got a whiff of a smelly swamp in the fields , which once , I knew , had been an , a pond in the last century . |
| 7 | In my own case , from 1957 when I joined ICI until 1973 when I was appointed to the board , I had no fewer than nine jobs . |
| 8 | I did [ think of myself as a cabbage ] when I was living at the other place doing all that washing by hand … |
| 9 | At one time , when I was touring in the theatre , I can remember simply having tea for breakfast and then going the whole day with nothing , then a tiny snack in the evening . |
| 10 | Nothing much has gone right for me since January when I was injured in a car crash . |
| 11 | One night , when I was going through a particularly troubled time , I awoke from restless , turbulent dreams , and , half-waking , had the sense of a woman sitting by my bed , watching over me . |
| 12 | ‘ And then another time when I was going through a patch of poor health , I went on a ‘ stone age diet ’ — pure things with no additives and lots of bottled water . |
| 13 | Often times when I was going into the country after orders and so on in the autumn , I 'd look at a field that had been freshly ploughed up after the harvest ; and I 'd think to myself how much like a piece of Doncaster Cord it was — colour , straight lines and everything . ’ |
| 14 | I knew I would n't get back in two hours when I was overtaken by a hopping rabbit . |
| 15 | I 'd been walking for 45 minutes when I was hailed by a local farmer who had seen me on the moonlit road . |
| 16 | My first political awareness of oppression was when I was discharged from the nursing corps of the army over lesbianism . |
| 17 | ‘ No , that one time when I was standing underneath the stage was close enough for me . |
| 18 | A S. I remember when I was working as a dogsbody in the 59 Theatre Company in Manchester a group of Central School students came to be the spirits in a production of The Tempest and these were Pisk trained and had , it seemed to me then , a marvellous range of body language . |
| 19 | We met in 1963 when I was working on the Daily Express 's William Hickey column , and Peter was writing on the Sunday Express . |
| 20 | I remember when I was working on the building sites in Manchester , the Irish lads called onions " navvies ' apples " and some of them would peel them and eat them whole like fruit . |
| 21 | It was when I was voted off the school council and I was really broken up about that and I suppose I forgot to post it … |
| 22 | Another occasion which demonstrated Winston 's indifference to the dictates of authority or public opinion was when I was approached by a picaresque character called John Shaheen , an American oil magnate who spent his life getting in and out of the most complicated financial transactions , seemingly always on the verge of ruin but nevertheless contriving to remain sufficiently solvent to undertake his next massive adventure . |
| 23 | I remembered once , in the middle of summer two years ago , when I was coming down the path in the late dusk after a day 's walking in the hills beyond the town , I saw in the gathering night strange lights , shifting in the air over and far beyond the island . |
| 24 | And that 's when my life changed , that 's when I was let into the world I wanted to be in and got paid to do something creative , which I 'd always wanted to do . ’ |
| 25 | Oh , that was when I was waiting in the queue were n't it ? |
| 26 | why I , I wanted to go around with you , but I wanted you , what I was thinking of when I was sat in the car that you , when you come back you could take me round when you 've been round |
| 27 | Trying to escape by going to the only other bar in Woodstock , where I was chased around a table by The Psychedelic Furs because I had given them a bad review in a music paper . |
| 28 | I looked up from the desk where I was writing in the day book . |
| 29 | After that , it was back to Delft where I was staying with an Irish mate 's Dutch mate and his brother . |
| 30 | I had met Richard when he came into the estate agent 's where I was working during the university vacation . |