Example sentences of "[noun] when i [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew I must be nearing Clumber when I saw the Robin Hood and Little John Hotel from the train window . |
| 2 | But my heart became filled with fear when I saw no prisoners . |
| 3 | I really have never felt even a flicker of emotion when I sang the National Anthem . |
| 4 | I have always loved dogs and I became involved with the association when I met a lady who was also involved in puppy training . |
| 5 | ‘ There was no way I could have got out of the car when I saw the lorry coming towards me , ’ Adam , 26 , said yesterday . |
| 6 | How could healing from a priest when I had no faith be of any assistance , and was n't the whole of that phoney world perfectly epitomized by the belief that the wanderings of an old man in the Oxfordshire lanes in the 1930s , seeking the energies of various plants , could possibly be relevant to a most dreaded disease ? |
| 7 | ‘ Once I was driving up High Street East in Sunderland with a local priest when I saw a furniture van ahead with its ramp down . |
| 8 | Imagine my disgust when I told the car park attendant of the delays , only to be informed that I must pay for two hours parking , as ‘ That is what is on the computer . ’ |
| 9 | Erm I think really for Mr to talk about washing of hands er he 's got some brass neck when I remember every year , every year I mean hopefully he wo n't be able to do this next year , what does he say it 's your budget and he looks over there your budget , you implement it . |
| 10 | I stop at the traffic light when I have a visual experience which others would describe as seeing a green light . |
| 11 | I had almost reached the kitchen doorway when I heard the furious sounds of her footsteps coming back towards me again . |
| 12 | I will expand on this dichotomy between the clean and the polluted in the next chapter when I detail the ethnography of being a ‘ real polis ’ ; however , these few examples indicate the cultural preference and the conceptual challenge which our appearance must have presented as we embraced aspects of the bodily style of our ‘ counter-cultural ’ antagonists . |
| 13 | He can carry the gear when I roam the world with my camera . ’ |
| 14 | I did not find any improvement in actual dollars spent on maintenance when I compared an object-oriented system written in 350,000 lines of C++ with a comparably complex product written in 1.25 million lines of C code . |
| 15 | I was leaning into the car to get the toddler out of the baby seat when I heard the shot . |
| 16 | Oh , well , I 'll keep it in mind when I get the lights then I 'll come and pick the colour see what 's on offer |
| 17 | ‘ It was n't exactly what I had in mind when I asked the council if I could donate some money for a seat in the park ’ |
| 18 | So our having the tape-recorder is affecting the quality of Mrs Padmore 's life — which , however , has an indirect effect on the quality of our life , given the I think not unreasonable premise that an improvement in the quality of someone else 's life offers us some kind of pleasure or satisfaction , or at any rate spares us discomfort or guilt ; though whether this is what I had in mind when I borrowed the tape-recorder this morning I think unlikely . |
| 19 | Stick to Dijon , although I have used Colman 's mustard and horseradish mix to good effect when I wanted a slightly sweet one . |
| 20 | Can you imagine my disappointment when I saw the sort of riff-raff that had also been invited — a distinctly dubious businessman , a scruffy rabbi who I think makes his living as a stand-up comic , a second-rate academic ? |
| 21 | an awful lot of pressure if your name is in it , but I got a special pleasure when I organized the reading from Salman Rushdie 's book . |
| 22 | To speak more intelligibly , I never have made any arrangement of plot when I commenced a work of fiction , and often finish a chapter without having the slightest idea of what materials the ensuing one is to be constructed . |
| 23 | I understood what I had seen in the dream when I learned the words " gaberdine " and " mahogany " ; and I was born in the year of the New Look , understood by 1951 and the birth of my sister , that dresses needing twenty yards for a skirt were items as expensive as children — more expensive really , because after 1948 babies came relatively cheap , on tides of free milk and orange juice , but good cloth in any quantity was hard to find for a very long time . |
| 24 | I was just going to look through it to find out what was happening in the passage when I saw a fishy eye fixed in the centre . |
| 25 | AT THIS stage of the last election in 1987 I was in the middle of writing a column when I had a call to say that the Sunday paper in which it was to appear had closed down . |
| 26 | ‘ A particularly heartening statistic when I checked the figures before I came to the Netherlands was that this market — with a relatively small population of only 15 million inhabitants — continues to be the biggest export market for Wedgwood in Continental Europe , ’ he said . |
| 27 | And there have been days I 'd have liked her at home when I had a headache or one of the nuns had roared at me at school . |
| 28 | Three days later I was limping back from the village and was about half a mile from home when I saw a movement in the hedge . |
| 29 | Our spirits were already beginning to flag when I received a letter from Eliot dated 2 June : |
| 30 | I was able to climb to about 1,200′ at which height I felt it was safe enough for me to control any sudden change of attitude when I disengaged the auto pilot . |