Example sentences of "[vb base] when i [verb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 I almost had a Vulcan mind melt when I saw the colour graphics on this version of Star Trek .
2 I almost had a Vulcan mind melt when I saw the colour graphics on this version of Star Trek .
3 I always cringe when I see a lorry like that coming on the road when you ca n't see past it
4 They ask me , Is that your writing ? and it is of course it is those are Despot control codes from when the computer 's mouse was misbehaving and that 's the way I always spell when I do a shopping list .
5 I snore when I get a cold .
6 I blush when I recall the day I slipped out of the office , bound for HCI 's Tropicana Beach Club …
7 ‘ I was once on the receiving end of one I think when I bought a suit in Hong Kong .
8 ‘ Do you know what I think when I see a lad like you ? ’
9 So once you get towards , take a clock in , make sure you pace yourself , and say at the end of that just put in a sort of sentence to make it look as if it 's been finished off Erm , what I usually do when I do an exam is I spend the first five minutes actually looking at the questions because initially you look for the ones that you 've revised and you see but there may be others there , there 're you can do in a slightly different way than the way that they first appear and that might help you quite a bit , although there are no trick questions in this .
10 Dear Harsnet , he wrote , you may keep your door closed and not answer when I ring the bell , you may refuse to answer my letters or return my calls when I leave a message on your answering machine , but sooner or later we are bound to meet and this time I will not let you fob me off with a smile .
11 In March , on a visit to Leatherhead , I was walking around the JS branch when I saw an old customer .
12 I mean when I started the job it was n't the job
13 ‘ I shall grow thin rather , with exercise , and all the knee-bending I perform when I clean the carpets and scrub the floors . ’
14 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 .
15 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 . ’
16 Does Dr Starkie 's reading of Madame Bovary contain all the responses which I have when I read the book , and then add a whole lot more , so that my reading is in a way pointless ?
17 It is possible that the subjective sensation experienced by a female bat when she perceives a male really is , " say , bright red : the same sensation as I experience when I see a flamingo .
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