Example sentences of "time [Wh adv] i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I had bought mine at a time when I 'd luckily accumulated some nice big fees , and she is just what I need , in every way . |
| 2 | My sister had a baby about three months ago , and I met it for the first time when I went home . ’ |
| 3 | Well I heard what that bloke said to you last time when I went before , do n't worry , once you 've paid for it once you 've paid it they 'll sort it out from there . |
| 4 | I 'll have to work a bit harder to make up for lost time when I get there . |
| 5 | The innocent words suddenly filled me with horror : there had been a time before I was born , a time when I had not existed , a time when I lacked individual consciousness — this last being the most horrifying notion . |
| 6 | Anyway , so I appeared before a Judge , the only time when I 've really been , he was judging me . |
| 7 | it is radical because at the time when I took over we needed to be radical . |
| 8 | Put it back up and I 'll nail it up some time when I bring up erm , I 'll bring up a hammer |
| 9 | It is that time when I gather up all that has happened in my day , and all that is going to happen today . |
| 10 | It was getting on for ‘ good night ’ time when I fell in with an old lady who complained that the naughty children of Sligo pulled her ivy down and swore at her . |
| 11 | But this time when I go back I mean to stay and die there , because , let me tell you ’ — she wagged her finger first at the Colonel and then at Reginald — ‘ there 's a time coming when there 'll be no France and very little England , or any place else . ’ |
| 12 | On a dinner time when I go out on a dinner time I leave it on . |
| 13 | Erm now , something that puzzled me for quite a long time when I started out doing philosophy of language er one or two years ago erm frequently you hear claims or we hear claims to the effect that this is a logical form of this sentence or this is the structure of this sentence , or this is the semantic structure of this sentence and I was never quite sure what that actually meant erm it 's partly because apart from Davidson , erm a lot of people who write on these issues do n't actually tell you what the background theory is and exactly what the point of the assignment of structured sentences is supposed to be , erm however after thinking about it for a while , I 've arrived at the following following general view there are at least three rather different enterprises er which might lead you to assign sentence structure and er one needs to figure out the relations between them . |
| 14 | It is true that William Cobbett , born in 1766 , was to write , " I do not remember the time when I did not earn my living " , but he was the son of a moderately successful small farmer in a district where hop growing enabled a decent living from small acreages for a family with three sons to help work it . |
| 15 | Looking back , I ca n't remember a time when I did n't love you . |
| 16 | Well the times I do fuck with people 's stuff and I do n't get caught and the time when I have n't I 'm getting hammered left right and centre . |
| 17 | Although , erm you know , I I can remember the time when I have not been a , quite enjoyed having bread and butter and chips . |