Example sentences of "when i take [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least when I take a wife it 'll satisfy me . |
| 2 | Very often , when I take a walk along the river in the close season and see a shoal of chub sliding in and out of the streamer weed , or merely lying near to the surface , ready to suck in a floating insect , I imagine I have a rod with me and I want to catch one of those chub . |
| 3 | Yet when I take a taxi back to the club , the driver tells me that the Indians will be getting it in the neck soon . |
| 4 | ‘ Usually — on the rare occasions when I take a woman to bed . |
| 5 | And as you have pointed out , when I take the lovely Miss Ingram as my bride , you and Adèle must leave the house , so I 'm looking for a new job for you . ’ |
| 6 | When I take the plaster off , that 's when your problems will begin . ’ |
| 7 | I saw his grave when I took a short cut through the churchyard — a modest , friendly , even jolly little grave , where in summer moon-daisies and red clover grew , and quaking grass which little children call shivery-shakes . |
| 8 | When I took a rolled-up sample of legal tender , printed by the Royal Mint , applied one end to my right nostril , placed a restraining finger upon my left nostril , rested the other end of the said note upon a mirror or any other shiny reflective surface , upon which was displayed a slender tranche or ‘ line ’ of exotic Colombian snuff , and breathed in as deeply as my lungs would allow , I was merely relaxing in a manner by no means untypical amongst overworked show-business operatives . |
| 9 | like , when I took a big breath it were the |
| 10 | ‘ You could n't have mentioned this when I took a shot at him in the alleyway . ’ |
| 11 | not only as to its erm very elaborate tracery patterns and and mythical beasts on it like that , around here , but also as to its colour cos although the original we found was actually blackened , when one took when I took a very powerful torch to it , you could actually see the colour in the crevices still , this red colour . |
| 12 | ‘ When I took the tray in yesterday morning , ’ said Ethel , ‘ she did n't register a thing . ’ |
| 13 | Ron was still coaching me , when I took the trouble to turn up . |
| 14 | Having had three reviews printed and received a veiled death threat from The Godfathers , I was already something of a celebrity in my native Wigan when I took the train to Commonwealth House . |
| 15 | As I found when I took the time to listen to parents and hear what they said , the views advanced did not always fit the latest fashion or an approved passage in a book on sociology . |
| 16 | I too have lost fish — two Sailfin Mollies , three guppies and a Scissortail ( which committed suicide , unnoticed when I took the cover off the tank ) . |
| 17 | At first he thought I was mad , but when I took the live animals out of my pocket to show him , he believed me . |
| 18 | It would have been quite possible to put something into the pockets of my dressing gown and then put it back into my clothes when I took the dressing gown off . |
| 19 | I certainly learnt next to nothing at St Aubyn 's and when I took the Common Entrance examination for Eton I failed so ignominiously that the authorities wrote to my mother that it would be futile for me to try again . |
| 20 | ‘ Oh , because … well , naturally when I took the job I did n't realise that I would come to dislike him so much . |
| 21 | I wrote to the Secretary of State for the Environment and was told that it was really a matter for the chief environmental officer of the local authority , but when I took the matter up with the local environmental officer , his response — and it is to his credit that he responded — was , ’ Well , it may be bad , but it is not really so bad that I must take any action . ’ |
| 22 | She did n't resist when I took the can of mace from her hand and slipped it into my pocket . |
| 23 | And also when I took the measurement , I took actually took it |
| 24 | Oh God , must be six possibly seven years now when I took the policy out originally I think . |
| 25 | I would have done it actually when , when I took the plate out but the water in the bowl was cold . |
| 26 | Well I saw the curtains were down erm when I took the triplets |