Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [verb] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I 'd had a bite and patrolled the area , I went back home to sit on the garage roof and have a leisurely wash . |
| 2 | I had seen it when I had taken a detour from Arequipa into the Colca , reputedly twice as deep as the Grand Canyon . |
| 3 | A very cloak and dagger episode followed when I had to meet a colleague on shore after landing on a remote beach by motor boat . |
| 4 | When I try to design a query using the operator SUM>0 , I seem to get all the rows pulled out . |
| 5 | So for example when I 've given a pint of blood instead of giving it into a plastic bag with sodium citrate to stop it clotting I 've actually given into a plain glass bottle and when I asked what this for the erm transfusion nurse said that they 're going to let the red cells all clot together at the bottom and use the serum that was left for blood grouping purposes which of course is very important . |
| 6 | That means that when I 've made a spelling mistake you can say to me , ‘ You 've spelt that wrong ’ , but not , ‘ You 're stupid , you ca n't spell . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ When I 've laid a table and put a really good meal in front of my family I feel fulfilled as a woman . |
| 8 | There have been many occasions on the Dee when I 've used a waggler , not for distance , but to get a bait to move through slow water made worse by abstraction . |
| 9 | ‘ You know it 's only when I 've had a drink I stop hearing those damned machines . ’ |
| 10 | Although she no longer performs , except as a lecturer ( she is professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University in North Carolina ) , she still likes to sing , ‘ When I 've had a couple of glasses ! ’ |
| 11 | ‘ YES , I was fired up — I always get like that when I 've had a bit of stick and I have had a lot of stick lately . ’ |
| 12 | Well er I had a lot of friends here and there , and when I 've had a lot of photos to develop for them , and then when I got everything done , you felt a sigh of relief at getting it all done . |
| 13 | Especially when I 've got a friend who might come up and visit . |
| 14 | I 'll come up when I 've got a bit of time , I 'll come an' cheer her up . ’ |
| 15 | I want to be taken seriously , which makes it galling that when I 've got a brain , certain types of men try to treat me like some empty-headed bimbo who … ’ |
| 16 | People tell me they 'll fade and that I should n't worry about them , or that I should n't bother about things like that when I 've got a baby , but I ca n't help it . |
| 17 | ‘ They probably do ’ , he said , ‘ but I ca n't let them cry with me when I 've got a queue of people ’ . |
| 18 | I did n't really feel a thing until about 5.30 p.m. when I began to feel a sort of tightening of the stomach , not a pain . |
| 19 | And , I mean , even when I say make a cup of tea |
| 20 | I remember one particular occasion when , on finding ‘ Cheer up Mona ’ written on the blackboard when I arrived to take a class , I went absolutely potty , threatening dire punishment on the whole class — the entire school almost — unless the culprit came forward . |
| 21 | The film in progress when I arrived showed a football match between a team of nuns and a team of soldiers , and every time the referee blew his whistle for a penalty ( which was every few seconds ) the player concerned had to lose a garment . |
| 22 | When I start to read a scene about violence , it 's like a nightmare , and I can see it evolving . |
| 23 | Er so , when I want to create a directory called put off the root directory . |
| 24 | " Yes — I have my own personal account there , and I go there when I want to cash a cheque . " |
| 25 | when I want to buy a shirt , that men 's shirts are usually all sealed up in a package |
| 26 | ‘ When I decide to marry a man , ’ she said , ‘ I will make him attend me everywhere . ’ |
| 27 | My favourite tale , comes from Corner Pool , when Rob was fishing one cold March day : ‘ I was about to start at the top of the pool when I happened to spot a flicker of movement close to the north bank . |
| 28 | My voice had nearly gone when I tried to order a brandy . |
| 29 | The Minister did not answer me earlier when I tried to raise a point about the period of between six and 16 months . |
| 30 | When I tried to place a bet at the Tote at Cheltenham not long ago , I found myself behind a queue of Irish priests . |