Example sentences of "when i [verb] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I carried out a survey of undergraduates and their use of books at Sheffield University I needed a sample of all undergraduates in the university during the academic year of the study.8 It was quite a revelation , talking to the Assistant Registrar in charge of records , to discover how difficult it was to define a ‘ student ’ for my purposes . |
| 2 | The benefits of this route could be substantial : about half of the Currie High roll comes from the Baberton and Juniper Green area , and when I carried out a survey , among parents , of travel to the school from these areas last year , a substantial number of families were in favour of opening up this path . |
| 3 | I felt even readier when I saw not a Gharrgoyle insight at Gharr 's table . |
| 4 | The student chooses their own subject ; most of these subjects are right on the fringes of the course , or overlap several different courses , and what surprised me when I sent round a questionnaire was how much the students said they enjoyed essay-writing . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ When I came here a month ago , they did n't have any confidence . |
| 6 | I mean I would open my eyes and see myself like that , wake up and then I 'd bounce off the bed and then I 'd sit there bouncing and , and but I have n't had that in a long time and wh when I thought now a lot of times , if I think that I leave either the front door unlocked , my house unlocked or the garage door open I go and actually check that in the middle of the night . |
| 7 | ‘ There were problems in the past with the way the fund was run , but when I took over a couple of years ago we took a very long look at our accounting system and put matters right . |
| 8 | When I pushed open a door leading to a better-lit corridor , I realized that I was on an upper level of the main administrative building of the spaceport . |
| 9 | But the pitch was wet when I picked up a swag against them at Bradford . |
| 10 | I was in a French class at school when I picked up a copy of the magazine , which had been lying on one of the tables . |