Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | When I peer along the track I see that it will be on the track across from me , going south to the river . |
2 | When I carried out a survey of undergraduates and their use of books at Sheffield University I needed a sample of all undergraduates in the university during the academic year of the study.8 It was quite a revelation , talking to the Assistant Registrar in charge of records , to discover how difficult it was to define a ‘ student ’ for my purposes . |
3 | The benefits of this route could be substantial : about half of the Currie High roll comes from the Baberton and Juniper Green area , and when I carried out a survey , among parents , of travel to the school from these areas last year , a substantial number of families were in favour of opening up this path . |
4 | He 's sometimes in the hall when I pass on the way out . |
5 | ‘ And Theo , ’ he confided , ‘ when I pass on the heath here such a woman with a child on her arm , it pierces me right through , the melancholy , and my eyes get moist . ’ |
6 | I 've got mine back on , but it wo n't be long when I get out the bus mind , but |
7 | I said I 'll put my shoes back on but I do n't know what my feet will be like when I get out the bus |
8 | on this anyway I , I finally , I did n't like it at all , but now I 'd done , I have me feather back I 'm alright I was like deaf when I got up every morning . |
9 | Everyone said I was playing when I got out the clay or plasticine , but really I was training myself without knowing it . |
10 | ‘ These drills run at a tremendous speed , ’ the father said , ‘ so when I switch on the drill the mileage numbers on the speedo spin backwards at a fantastic rate . |
11 | I put in me bag when I go up the school and I had the little microphone hanging out . |
12 | So when I go round the garden , I carry two containers : a bucket for compostable weeds , and a plastic bag for those perennials with tough tools that might survive . |
13 | It 's the same when I go round the schools . |
14 | An' if you mus ' know I like wearin' nice clothes an' I like the way boys look at me when I go down the schtreet an' I like to look sexy an' I like lipstick an' showin' meself off an' all that I enjoy it . |
15 | Now it would maybe not be appropriate if there was to be an alternative government bill that would deal with these type of matters er in front of us and please to say that when I read out the list of sponsors , it 'll be shown there are people from all parties , or all parties in Britain in this house , who are true democrats . |
16 | I really I really do wish it was that simple and I wish that when I pick up The Star on a Thursday or one of the other local papers that I did n't read in it the twenty cars that 's broken into and and all the other problems and I say to myself now why did that happen . |
17 | Knowing this to be his likely mood when I brought in the tea yesterday afternoon , and being aware of his general propensity to talk with me in a bantering tone at such moments , it would certainly have been wiser not to have mentioned Miss Kenton at all . |
18 | When I wrote down the dream , I realised that I was already ‘ bored stiff with my proposed project , and should choose another topic . |
19 | When I wrote out the application form and it said did I have any experience , I just adapted it . |
20 | The student chooses their own subject ; most of these subjects are right on the fringes of the course , or overlap several different courses , and what surprised me when I sent round a questionnaire was how much the students said they enjoyed essay-writing . |
21 | and I bought her but when I came out the loo he is playing with the bus going wheeee , he was having a great time with that , I looked at him and I said got to give that to Charlotte , no , no , I do n't like it I want the house , meaning the garage , so I 've gone out now and bought her a circus |
22 | could n't tell you but er these cars turned up erm , there were n't no hearse and off they went and er course when I went up the garden to get some washing in Claire came up and er anyway she said er about Mr and I said well I assume it was him , I saw Mrs and she starts on about this dog barking out in the garden again ! |
23 | ‘ You are probably right but , honest , when I checked out the beach last month the waves were only two feet high ! ’ |
24 | When I put down the receiver I heard Geoff Tulloch 's voice out in the main office , impressing the young women with his irrepressible personality . |
25 | In fact , when I bring in the afternoon tea , Mr Farraday is inclined to close any book or periodical he has been reading , rise and stretch out his arms in front of the windows , as though in anticipation of conversation with me . |
26 | I was n't much more than your age when I took on the farm myself . |
27 | ‘ There were problems in the past with the way the fund was run , but when I took over a couple of years ago we took a very long look at our accounting system and put matters right . |
28 | And when I took over the magazine I said let's just use the typefaces that they use in the newspaper and supplement them for some headlines , but try to make it belong in the New York Times . |
29 | ‘ When I took over the club from Connelly I agreed to give old Giuseppe there a job , ’ he explained . |
30 | Yet when I step off the bus at the Coronet cinema I get the same lurch as when I first left home . |