Example sentences of "when i [vb base] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I like to understand the meanings of words and always refer to a dictionary when I come on a new word . |
| 2 | When I come across a new metaphor , one that stretches my understanding , I feel cold . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | When I work in a particular area I want to know why a landscape looks as it does . |
| 6 | The first thing 1 demand when I move into a new office is one soft chair for myself and another for my visitors . |
| 7 | 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 . |