Example sentences of "[coord] when i [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance when in a dream she was conducted by me over a market garden in Aegina , one could guess that she had been reading Angus Wilson 's The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot , in which a market garden figures ; or when I dreamed of a detective novel by her , with a detective bearing her own name and very uncharacteristically dressed there were signs of my addiction to the detective novels of Gladys Mitchell . |
| 2 | Here perhaps we would like to reply : The description of what is got immediately , i.e. of the visual experience , by means of an interpretation — in an indirect description , ‘ I see the figure as a box ’ means : I have a particular visual experience which I have found that I always have when I interpret the figure as a box or when I look at a box . |
| 3 | But we can also see the illustration now as one thing , now as another ’ , Wittgenstein imagines someone like Locke — though he does not mention Locke — saying that ‘ I see the figure as a box ’ means ‘ I have a particular visual experience which I have found that I always have when I interpret the figure as a box or when I look at a box . ’ |
| 4 | It 's great , Frankie boy ; I 'm keeping to the fields and the woods and walking a lot and getting lifts and when I get near a town I look for a good fat juicy dog and I make friends with it and take it out to the woods and then I kill it and eat it . |
| 5 | There was a good hotel , too , but when I braked to a halt in front of it and suggested stopping there , Ward shook his head , muttering something about our still having two hundred miles to go and the coastal cordillera of the Andes to cross . |
| 6 | ‘ The guides claimed to have taken us to the edge of the Sahara but when I looked on a map it was the Atlas mountains , the bastards . ’ |
| 7 | I had not told her about my summons to the Palace , but when I appeared in a tail coat , this unusual costume , combined with the insistence on punctuality , led her to make an accurate deduction . |
| 8 | Driving away , I noticed that the vast chimney was still not functioning , but when I called at a neighbouring house a woman showed me videos she had taken of smoke coming from the plant , settling in her garden . |