Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remembered the first days in New York when I ran like a wild animal set free from a cage . |
| 2 | For instance when in a dream she was conducted by me over a market garden in Aegina , one could guess that she had been reading Angus Wilson 's The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot , in which a market garden figures ; or when I dreamed of a detective novel by her , with a detective bearing her own name and very uncharacteristically dressed there were signs of my addiction to the detective novels of Gladys Mitchell . |
| 3 | At least back when I lived in a hole I knew everything there was to know about living in a hole , and now it 's a year later and I 'm at a place so far away I do n't even know how far away it is , watching something I do n't understand go to a place so far up there is no down . |
| 4 | When I ask for a carrot now mummy I , I 'll just have a big feast . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | I got to cross the road — I remember that , so when I get to a gate I go out and have a look round . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And when I t when I got on a Friday and and paid me wages over to me Mum , which was natural for you to do , I always got th thre three pennies back . |
| 9 | Tom and Terry , but especially Terry , wanted to know everything about us immediately : where we 'd been to school ; what we 'd studied ; the history of the British constitution , or lack of it from an American point of view ; what the real situation was in Ireland ; why did n't Brian hit me when I responded to a proffered cigarette with , ‘ Fuck off out of my life , you wheedling Irish bastard ’ ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I like to understand the meanings of words and always refer to a dictionary when I come on a new word . |
| 12 | When I come across a new metaphor , one that stretches my understanding , I feel cold . |
| 13 | LIVING in England , I never expect to get an architectural thrill when I go to a concert or the theatre . |
| 14 | I find it disappointing now that when I go to a completion meeting , I am often the only woman there . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | But erm if I , when I go to a farm I do n't want spray . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | There was a good hotel , too , but when I braked to a halt in front of it and suggested stopping there , Ward shook his head , muttering something about our still having two hundred miles to go and the coastal cordillera of the Andes to cross . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Recently I was in an equipment shop when I chanced upon a climbing friend . |
| 22 | you 're always having a fag when I pull into a petrol station |
| 23 | Someone who would smile when I walked into a room , look pleased that I had come home — not because they wanted something from me , but because I was me . |
| 24 | It struck me as incongruous when I heard of a parish church , in a commuter town south of London , which was to enact a nativity play . |
| 25 | I felt guilty — I seem to do that a lot , like when I could n't be with my parents when my father was dying , even when I know at an intellectual level that I do n't need to . |
| 26 | When I became in a conscious way feminist I pondered long what it meant that a woman could not in such a way depict Christ as being in her image . |
| 27 | I had already gathered from the groom that Sir John had not left so , when I came to a small copse of trees , I took my horse deep inside , hobbled it and sat on a boulder . |
| 28 | When I came across an article in The Times of 18 December 1964 , on cats which could swim , I cut it out and sent it to George Boas … but not to Panofsky . |
| 29 | The other day I was out on the hill when I came upon a herd of four stags , and I shot five of them , just as easy as that . ’ |
| 30 | I recently spring cleaned my lovely home , as one is inclined to do now and again , when I came upon a pile of old magazines which had been in the house for years . |