Example sentences of "when i [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remembered the first days in New York when I ran like a wild animal set free from a cage . |
| 2 | Tom and Terry , but especially Terry , wanted to know everything about us immediately : where we 'd been to school ; what we 'd studied ; the history of the British constitution , or lack of it from an American point of view ; what the real situation was in Ireland ; why did n't Brian hit me when I responded to a proffered cigarette with , ‘ Fuck off out of my life , you wheedling Irish bastard ’ ? |
| 3 | I like to understand the meanings of words and always refer to a dictionary when I come on a new word . |
| 4 | When I come across a new metaphor , one that stretches my understanding , I feel cold . |
| 5 | I felt guilty — I seem to do that a lot , like when I could n't be with my parents when my father was dying , even when I know at an intellectual level that I do n't need to . |
| 6 | When I became in a conscious way feminist I pondered long what it meant that a woman could not in such a way depict Christ as being in her image . |
| 7 | I had already gathered from the groom that Sir John had not left so , when I came to a small copse of trees , I took my horse deep inside , hobbled it and sat on a boulder . |
| 8 | For a moment I thought the heat from the bung-hole might incinerate my brows , but when I squinted beneath an outstretched palm the sight stole my breath . |
| 9 | I was nurturing this comforting thought when I turned into a large assembly room with numbered doors leading from it . |
| 10 | When I worked as a primary school teacher I sometimes retrieved that feeling with a particular clarity , walking between the tables on the hard floor , all the little looms working but needing my constant adjustment . |
| 11 | There are a few minutes , perhaps not more than three or four , when I exist in a bewildering storm of hope , joy , incomprehen-sion and dread , when they do n't find the body at the bottom of the shaft . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | When I work in a particular area I want to know why a landscape looks as it does . |
| 14 | The first thing 1 demand when I move into a new office is one soft chair for myself and another for my visitors . |
| 15 | When I look at a natural object for a long time , like looking into the burning embers and the flames of a fire , there appears a new vision or facet of that object or a new way of seeing it in relationship to some other world of thought . |
| 16 | She was there again when I helped in a feeding centre in Seoul in Korea , when the people came from broken down shacks once a day to get soup and rice . |