Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb base] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | When I ask for a carrot now mummy I , I 'll just have a big feast . |
2 | ‘ 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 . |
3 | I got to cross the road — I remember that , so when I get to a gate I go out and have a look round . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | ‘ 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 . |
7 | I find it disappointing now that when I go to a completion meeting , I am often the only woman there . |
8 | But erm if I , when I go to a farm I do n't want spray . |
9 | LIVING in England , I never expect to get an architectural thrill when I go to a concert or the theatre . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | you 're always having a fag when I pull into a petrol station |
14 | They were made of diamonds , not gold , but I wore them when I want to a ball and never felt my immortal soul in danger because of that . |
15 | When I talk about a slide , it was minimal and from the highest of heights . |
16 | ‘ I do get depressed when I think about a career based in England . |
17 | Here perhaps we would like to reply : The description of what is got immediately , i.e. of the visual experience , by means of an interpretation — in an indirect description , ‘ I see the figure as a box ’ means : I have a particular visual experience which I have found that I always have when I interpret the figure as a box or when I look at a box . |
18 | But we can also see the illustration now as one thing , now as another ’ , Wittgenstein imagines someone like Locke — though he does not mention Locke — saying that ‘ I see the figure as a box ’ means ‘ I have a particular visual experience which I have found that I always have when I interpret the figure as a box or when I look at a box . ’ |
19 | When I look at a picture of a naked man , I can think like Richard Dyer : ‘ I 'd like to feel that man and I 'd like to be that man . ’ |
20 | So if I have associated the right word — say , the word blue — with the right impression — the impression I get when I look at a cornflower — there is no fear of my language not mirroring reality as there is if I talk about fate or fortune , these not being words for simple ideas impressed on my mind by external objects . |
21 | ‘ How can I relax when I look like a blancmange covered in maraschino cherries ? ’ |
22 | " But then , what else could I be when I look like a scarecrow and smell like a fox ? " |
23 | when I pay for a paper I want it to be complete , so I want that piece and I want that , that piece . |
24 | Well you 're going to have to because when I pay for a paper , I want it to be complete , so I want that piece and I want th that piece , no wait a minute , where is it ? |
25 | It 's always the same story when yer go fer a job . |
26 | ‘ But because you have no concept of how to relate to people on anything other than a superficial level , you have a terrible shock when you get into a situation like marriage and find that it does n't live up to your fantasies . |
27 | when you get to a window I do n't know other than t the curtains wo n't be fire retardant will they ? |
28 | And in the Slovenský Raj the paths go through the steams and when you get to a waterfall , ladders have been built to take you to the top . |
29 | I mean , when you get to a point where you 're playing stadiums and it 's nothing special any more , you know something 's wrong . |
30 | The trouble with all these lines is that when you get to a length exceeding about fifty miles ( 80km ) , the curvature of the Earth begins to become significant : a straight line on the map is not necessarily a straight line on the ground . |