Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [verb] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then I have found other uses for it in my knitting room such as to anchor down that very important latch tool and to put in place the little basin on the weighing machine which tends to flop off when I go to weigh a heavy jumper . |
| 2 | When I had completed a two hour programme my friends came to my home and we saw it together . |
| 3 | I became frustrated almost to screaming when I had finished a well-received and humorous story about the death of my grandfather and found that she was turned away in deep conversation with another woman . |
| 4 | when I had afforded a nice , that when someone holding it you can have a little |
| 5 | That was all I needed … just when I had found a little peace at last . |
| 6 | ‘ I tend to get carried away when I 've drunk a wee bit too much . |
| 7 | And when I 've done a good lesson — whatever that means — when it 's gone down well . |
| 8 | ‘ When I 've played a few games for Lazio , when I 'm ready and the boss says I am fit to return , I will bring the whole family to Wembley to watch me again . |
| 9 | When I 've had a few drinks I get a little argumentative . |
| 10 | I 'm not going to bother to go out and buy new paint when I 've got a damn great tub |
| 11 | ‘ The crossover back of this top looks really stunning when I 've got a good suntan ’ Shirlie , left |
| 12 | One of the earliest jottings I made when I began to keep a crime-writing notebook concerned just this business of plot . |
| 13 | But we forgot to dispose of the discarded furnishings , and six months later when I went to spend a few days with a senior Burmese colleague , he showed me with great satisfaction his small-town church , furnished with the discarded pews , pulpit , litany desks , with the collection bags being changed according to the ecclesiastical season ! |
| 14 | When I started teaching a junior class in 1947 in a London County Council school there was no provision at all . |
| 15 | They were the first big fish I tried to catch when I decided to be more selective with my fishing , and when I did catch a big chub on my first attempt it set the scene for my present angling outlook . |
| 16 | There are occasions — there have been occasions in this Parliament — when I have to make a supplementary business statement . |
| 17 | It is even more useful when I have found a glaring mistake , have partially undone something and rehung the stitches inaccurately . |
| 18 | I had a similar problem when I wanted to rout a decorative edge around small components . |
| 19 | ‘ When I wanted to produce a special jumper to commemorate my 50th Test try , with the emblems of all the countries I 'd scored against , I was told I 'd have to pay royalties for using them . |
| 20 | Because if you do n't , if do n't do a word by word translation , as some of you did , you , you may miss the meaning of certain words , and that might totally alter your perception of what 's being said , and then what you should , wh when you 've done a literal translation , you will have a very stiff erm , u unusual version of it , written in modern English vocabulary but you 'll find that word ordering and things like that wo n't be appropriate , and sometimes the vocabulary are n't the kind of words that would normally be used now . |
| 21 | Other than that , the TriAxis is great fun to play with , the sounds are top grade and there 's a real sense of achievement when you 've created a personalised bunch of presets . |
| 22 | The rest of us might put the same thing in much more simple terms by voicing that popular complaint , ‘ When you 've eaten a Chinese meal you feel hungry again in a couple of hours . ’ |
| 23 | When you 've made a physical space — a table and a chair — for your writer-self , you will find that an inner space begins to open up in the imagination . |
| 24 | But when you 've moved a five-bedroomed house which has got a grand piano in it as well , and you 're about twenty to thirty foot at the back and all you can see is furniture furniture furniture furniture furniture , you can imagine as you go on you 're thinking God will we ever get to this ? |
| 25 | I 've worked in for 30 years and lots of us have worked for over 25 years and we do know that they are bringing in trainees in on higher salaries than ourselves , which obviously is quite upsetting when you 've worked a long time . |
| 26 | Yeah but trouble is you pray for ra , pray for snow when you 've got a four wheel drive car ! |
| 27 | I said it 's for when you 've got a blunt dart and you sharpen it . |
| 28 | for when you 've got a simple straightforward of X. Like if I said , Y equals X squared plus two , you just differentiate it straight off by doing each term like that . |
| 29 | It 's like tying an old sock round your neck when you 've got a sore throat . ’ |
| 30 | And when you 've got a good Neighbourhood Watch this is so , and you 'll find that they are very efficient . |