Example sentences of "when i [verb] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not find any improvement in actual dollars spent on maintenance when I compared an object-oriented system written in 350,000 lines of C++ with a comparably complex product written in 1.25 million lines of C code . |
| 2 | When I received an unexpected invitation , I do n't know how , to deliver the opening address of an important conference on Germanic studies at Göttingen dedicated to ‘ Controversies ancient and modern ’ , I chose to raise this issue , which seemed so crucial to me . |
| 3 | One morning I was driving along the road when I saw an old man frantically waving a walking stick at passing cars . |
| 4 | In March , on a visit to Leatherhead , I was walking around the JS branch when I saw an old customer . |
| 5 | I was soaked and shivering and was about to return in a desultory spirit to my hotel to take whatever food was offered there at whatever price , when I noticed an indoor shopping centre and darted in , shaking myself out like a dog . |
| 6 | The change in my approach to mathematics began when I joined an in-service Diploma in Mathematics Education.2 In the first week I was given the task of making a 3 x 3 x 3 wooden cube made up of three different pentacubes and three different tetracubes . |