Example sentences of "when [pers pn] be [verb] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were on holiday in the Aegean when I was getting better from this talking thing and she was reading Crime and Punishment , and I used to watch her toes and wonder which part she had got to . |
| 2 | I mean I w when I was dropping dead with exhaustion one evening I said to him look Tony , the there 's I 've cooked a chicken , there 's a big chicken cooling on the table and there there were red sauce , potatoes , gravy , I said , stick the lot on a plate a micro and , you know , film it over , microwave it oh well I sha n't bother to eat anything now of course he was paying me for his food |
| 3 | We had no Balls as such in those days , we would have a dance , and when I was entertaining any of my theatrical friends from the West End it was always Tommy that I selected to do some special entertaining — well within the reach of the station commander 's entertaining fund . |
| 4 | And I was frightened , I tell you , when I was left alone in the crypt , with a single candle to light my way , and discerned gradually , as my eyes grew accustomed to the dark , the subjects of the Prince 's experiments , standing upright , sentinels at each wall of the chamber , with glittering eyes and teeth . |
| 5 | I met Amy occasionally at the House , when I was attending one of the servants , a chauffeur called Yaxlee . |
| 6 | I first became aware of its potential when I was let loose in a pre-production 205 diesel on a mountain rally course in France and clocked an indicated 100 mph on a downhill stretch . |
| 7 | When I 'm getting ready for a party — you know , you have a bath some time in the early afternoon or evening , you work out what to wear , you lay the things out on the bed that you vaguely know you look nice in , you roughly know what make-up suits you … well , that 's the point when I start thinking about my leg , and whether it will show . |
| 8 | This is the kind of dreamy Hollywood fantasy I like to float in when I 'm lying flat on my back under some dirty platform desperately trying to tack a loose wire or stubborn piece of baize into position — or standing in a wet field trying to work out exactly how the VIPs will swim through the mud from the helicopter to the marquee . |
| 9 | I happen to drive a very small car er a Fiat one , two , six and you ca n't get much smaller than that and I am much more aggressive when I 'm driving that for the simple reason I think its this sort of principle although I 'm nearly six foot in that I 'm a small person and the small person mentality comes out because I get cut up continuously , they do n't do that when I 'm driving my husband 's car which is a Volvo , er they will cut in front of me , I do n't think they , if they knew what my brakes were like they would n't do it . |
| 10 | So I can still hear him talking to me when I 'm doing some of this stuff , especially when I 'm trying to sing — which has not been easy . |
| 11 | When you when you 're reading this through , you 're having a quick skim through , you can can you can cross out , you can sort of totally obliterate |
| 12 | Yes , so when you 're getting low on memory the bottom of the screen the little red M E M appears , telling you you 're very low , about to run out , er , so how can you check how much memory you have got when you 're in One Two Three ? |
| 13 | Vast as I 'm feeling : like in a dream when you 're walking naked down the High Street . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh techniques of surveillance , when you 're sitting alone in a car you move into the passenger seat , make it look as if you 're waiting for the driver to come back … the trouble is , I never got a posting where I had to use it . ’ |
| 15 | Nick said talk about Sterling Moss he said sodding fucking when you 're sitting next to . |
| 16 | When you 're feeling peckish between meals , take your mind off food by keeping active . |
| 17 | But , when you 're feeling energetic with a smile on your face , and in love … that 's when hamburgers really taste delicious ’ Thank you MOS BURGER . |
| 18 | And everybody that sent cards , I mean it was really great I mean get well cards are sort of things that you see in shops and you never really think about it , but when when you 're lying flat on your back in hospital and you get cards for people , I mean it really does give you a lift . |
| 19 | When you are made aware of this you can consciously choose not to react in a stressed way and you will therefore be able to maintain a calmness even when life becomes hectic . |
| 20 | You can emphasise that for me , Great-gran , when you are having one of your little palavers with him . |
| 21 | Did your Gary Sprake also dive right over the ball when you were leading 1–0 in the cup final : - ) ) ) |
| 22 | And when you were doing these with lots of you 've got now got W X Y and Z in , when you 're adding up if you lay them out like that |
| 23 | I did , I did — ha , ha ! — I was here when you were lying ill in bed . |
| 24 | Factory worker , Paula Gilfoyle , was eight-and-a-half months pregnant when she was discovered dead at her home in Grafton Drive , Upton , Wirral , on Thursday , June 4 , last year . |
| 25 | Carol Clark was 32 years old , when she was found dead in the Gloucester to Sharpness canal at Sharpness docks on Sunday . |
| 26 | We always got excited when we were packing ready for the journey of about 50 miles . |
| 27 | A conceivable solution to the problem might be to redraft the guardian angels when they are made redundant from Underground trains and deploy them in parish churches . |
| 28 | AOPA was actively involved throughout the campaign to save West Malling and has found that in several instances residents in the neighbourhoods of airfields have been opposed to flying , but when they were made aware of the horrors of what the possible alternatives would be , they then realised what a valuable green and friendly asset a local airfield could be . |
| 29 | Table-toppers Rhyl lost their 100 per cent record in the Manweb Cymru Alliance when they were beaten 3-2 at Gresford in September . |
| 30 | France put future prospects before personal glory when they were beaten 4–1 by Germany in the play-off for the bronze medal . |