Example sentences of "when [pron] [be] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I am sitting up there working with the librarian , pupils will come trotting in with little notes from teachers saying " I have been sent in to ask for books on … " and off they will go for that lesson which is what she wanted , so they have achieved it . |
| 2 | Yes I well remember er I use when I was staying down at Trimley there was erm a lady there who worked in the Billeting Department , who ca who herself was evacuated from London and er , I used to catch the same bus with her but she never would speak to me , erm and erm one morning er she lived down at Curton and one morning they had some erm er German planes over Curton and they were doing some machine gunning and that sort of thing and erm and we met at the bus stop and she was full of it and erm that sort of broke the ice it was |
| 3 | A few days ago when I was hooked up to a foetal monitor , a midwife rushed in , not to ask how I was , but to see if I knew the latest on the war . |
| 4 | Sue likes me … lots of people like me … when I was helping out at the meat counter the other week , Jim said we should go bowling one night . |
| 5 | I liked to find my own stories — and I was just beginning to place the best of them in national papers when I was whisked off for two years ' National Service . |
| 6 | You know , when I was bringing up my children in the early seventies I read about the the mergence of the new working woman , you know , how to balance a career and a home and children , and I could n't for the life of me think what was new about this working woman ! |
| 7 | ‘ In the primary-school playground , of course , when I was singled out to stand in the centre of a ring while a dozen sweet-faced little girls danced round me chanting ‘ Shannon 's dad 's a robber . ’ ' |
| 8 | Well they were selling pot pourris when I was queuing up to get , |
| 9 | About twelve years later , when I was looking back on that meeting with Dana , I wrote the following poem : |
| 10 | " I 'm afraid of what she 'll do , " the man says when I was looking in through the window , and then the other woman goes up to him and starts loving him . |
| 11 | Then , when I was grown up I saw the film The Sinking of the Titanic and it brought back the terror . |
| 12 | I gazed at this scene thinking that of all of the things I wanted when I was grown up , the one I wanted most was to play a harmonium . |
| 13 | When I was sorting out his clothes yesterday I found this . ’ |
| 14 | It was eighty six when I was sent up to with it . |
| 15 | I had no premonition of disaster when I was sent off to answer a call from a Mrs Dunston . |
| 16 | Well I think it yeah because when I was filling in th |
| 17 | I mean as I said when I was filling in the questionnaire I was thinking well this , really this is my preference and you know I 'd much rather be in a job that allowed me some flexibility . |
| 18 | I woke to manoeuvre a rock under the groundsheet , then to put cream on my burning ears , later to pull my knees up to my chin to get warm , then to eat some dates , and finally when I was called out by diarrhoea . |
| 19 | But when I was strung out , I 'd have done almost anything … . |
| 20 | Certainly when I was setting up my studio in the country , the nice thing was that we did n't do anything standard ; we did n't take anything for granted , whether it was mics , positions of drums or anything . |
| 21 | ‘ When I was setting up the Fine Chemicals Manufacturing Organization [ FCMO ] in the early '80s , there was no doubt quality was the main way to compete more effectivey and raise performance . |
| 22 | It was a relief when I was moved on to the Sports Desk ; these were gains and losses of a different kind and they did n't involve people getting killed . |
| 23 | I have seen it when I was tidying up |
| 24 | ‘ When we were first married , I knew you would have to spend quite a lot of time on your own , when I was tied up with business affairs . |
| 25 | I had been his guest in the air very briefly before when I was taken up to see Low Birk Hatt as a bird would see it , and I found it a thrilling experience , quite the best way to travel . |
| 26 | On either side of him were two younger officers who stood up when I was shown in . |
| 27 | In the thirties , my father had been a painter and decorator , plumber , electrician , publican and boxer , but when I was growing up , he was a Spiritualist and a faith healer , talking about his negro spirit-guide , Massa , and explaining how he knew when people were cured because he felt burning coals in the palms of his hands . |
| 28 | I did n't like The Beatles or the Stones until a couple of years ago , 'cos that used to be drummed into me when I was growing up . |
| 29 | Whereas there was a sense of helplessness , politically , when I was growing up , as if all the power was out of our hands . |
| 30 | The principles on which recovery and success have been based are those which , like so many others , I first began to understand for myself when I was growing up and trying to make my own way in the world . |