Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | For instance when in a dream she was conducted by me over a market garden in Aegina , one could guess that she had been reading Angus Wilson 's The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot , in which a market garden figures ; or when I dreamed of a detective novel by her , with a detective bearing her own name and very uncharacteristically dressed there were signs of my addiction to the detective novels of Gladys Mitchell . |
2 | At least back when I lived in a hole I knew everything there was to know about living in a hole , and now it 's a year later and I 'm at a place so far away I do n't even know how far away it is , watching something I do n't understand go to a place so far up there is no down . |
3 | When I ask for a carrot now mummy I , I 'll just have a big feast . |
4 | ‘ I usually only scrub the front tyre when I get into a turn too hot but this is how it goes : You 're in fourth gear and jetting down to this U-turn . |
5 | I got to cross the road — I remember that , so when I get to a gate I go out and have a look round . |
6 | It 's great , Frankie boy ; I 'm keeping to the fields and the woods and walking a lot and getting lifts and when I get near a town I look for a good fat juicy dog and I make friends with it and take it out to the woods and then I kill it and eat it . |
7 | And when I t when I got on a Friday and and paid me wages over to me Mum , which was natural for you to do , I always got th thre three pennies back . |
8 | Well now , now you know that when I disappear with a placard sign , I do n't just appear with a placard , we are doing things behind the scenes . |
9 | ‘ When I go to a party I feel there 's an expectation for me to be witty and to be a ‘ party gal ’ , says my friend Alison . |
10 | I find it disappointing now that when I go to a completion meeting , I am often the only woman there . |
11 | But erm if I , when I go to a farm I do n't want spray . |
12 | LIVING in England , I never expect to get an architectural thrill when I go to a concert or the theatre . |
13 | When I go for a night session I make sure to arrive well before darkness , usually around 7.30 p.m. or 8 p.m. in summer , when dusk does not fall until 10 p.m. or so . |
14 | There was a good hotel , too , but when I braked to a halt in front of it and suggested stopping there , Ward shook his head , muttering something about our still having two hundred miles to go and the coastal cordillera of the Andes to cross . |
15 | I find it tragic when I hear of a couple where one knows the other is dying , but neither can bear to talk about it . |
16 | When I listen to a piece of music , my first questions have to do with whether it moves me , does it have anything unique to tell me , and questions about what style it 's in are way down the list . |
17 | Recently I was in an equipment shop when I chanced upon a climbing friend . |
18 | you 're always having a fag when I pull into a petrol station |
19 | Someone who would smile when I walked into a room , look pleased that I had come home — not because they wanted something from me , but because I was me . |
20 | It struck me as incongruous when I heard of a parish church , in a commuter town south of London , which was to enact a nativity play . |
21 | The other day I was out on the hill when I came upon a herd of four stags , and I shot five of them , just as easy as that . ’ |
22 | I recently spring cleaned my lovely home , as one is inclined to do now and again , when I came upon a pile of old magazines which had been in the house for years . |
23 | I have to report , though , that it was here my own trust in the French as the most obdurately literate of all nations was dented when I went into a bookshop and asked if they had a copy of the Song of Roland . |
24 | I discovered this painfully myself when I went as a visitor to a beautifully equipped laboratory to work on learning in rhesus monkeys . |
25 | I learned that when I went to a conference at Sheffield . |
26 | But er I did go with Con when I went for a perm she said oh would you like to , would you like to go and see Valerie |
27 | And there was prejudice once when I went for a job . |
28 | They looked at me apprehensively when I asked for a drink of cider or wine . |
29 | If the code is kept under review , is there any intention to issue an updated version with any alterations to the 1987 edition which is the one that was supplied to me when I asked for a copy ? |
30 | ‘ The guides claimed to have taken us to the edge of the Sahara but when I looked on a map it was the Atlas mountains , the bastards . ’ |