Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] when i [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crawled until I could see the arrow only because it was pale against the bark , and knew I was already further away than when I 'd taken the last bearing . |
| 2 | Assuming that I 'd been able to drag the dinghy in a fairly straight line — though I might have gone astray a bit when I was stumbling in the mud — Joanna should be lying more or less straight ahead , and a good deal nearer than when I 'd left , for it was near high water then , and now it was about the last of the ebb . |
| 3 | This animal had begun to grunt and go off her milk two days ago and when I had seen her yesterday I had flirted from one possibility to the other . |
| 4 | You need send nothing with the child Ellen as he will need quite different clothes here and when I have seen and measured him I will make them myself . |
| 5 | I wondered if he thought Dana and I were about to tie the knot , or whether he was thinking of us individually — the latter , I think , because he had warned me against marriage once or twice before when I had shown what he regarded as too much interest in a woman friend . |
| 6 | or through the shower then in the swimming pool then back again and when I 'd finished with it I went straight upstairs to my room and I went to sleep straight away , it was lovely . |