Example sentences of "when [pron] come " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nicest compliment I 'm ever paid is when someone comes up to me and says : " You 're no different from what you are on the screen " . |
| 2 | I still get the louder gusts of laughter and the odd thump and clunk , but the mike will tell me when someone comes to the door . |
| 3 | You should see them — they were ringing the Castle round when I came away , and making themselves fires for the night on Cnoc na Lude across the Tilt . |
| 4 | ‘ Afterwards , when I came to London , I was never really well , although the work I was doing was not hard . ’ |
| 5 | My self-pity was enhanced at four-thirty when I came to camp . |
| 6 | It was only 5.30 pm when I came into the main hospital building , but a cheeky nurse said ‘ Bon soir , Miss Veness , parlez-vous Francaise ? |
| 7 | ‘ In the morning when I came in , I had to help get clients out of bed , dressed and washed . |
| 8 | I could n't perceive that Upper Gumtree looked any more sleepy than any of the others : his eyes were as bright , and he pricked his ears when I came near him . |
| 9 | I think it was when I came across that marvellous little book by Sellar and Yeatman — 1066 and All That . |
| 10 | Mum asked when I came downstairs . |
| 11 | She wrapped up the clogs and gave them back to me with the instruction that I was only to wear the shoes when I came to call . |
| 12 | But it was when I came to ask myself the reason for such a wild suggestion that I received a greater shock . |
| 13 | I was spiked and cut all over when I came out . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ That 's why I cast so many unknowns when I came to make the movie , ’ Dickerson reasons . |
| 15 | In 1981 when I came to Region it was n't our concern with the big psychiatric hospitals . |
| 16 | Every month when I came on we would say , never mind , next time . |
| 17 | And it was Sunday afternoon when I came out the pit the next time . |
| 18 | It was about noon when I came through the trees out on to the shingle of the beach with the chapel . |
| 19 | In the first few months when I came out of the Navy I 'd tried my hand at a couple of things , and then my mother phoned me up one day and said there 's this job going at Drogo . |
| 20 | See when I came in sixty-one I , I remember , you know B B C cinema ? |
| 21 | And I says er you know when I came back from Rio de Janeiro , she 'd been out as a kiddy then . |
| 22 | The first was when I came across a picture of a heavily armoured man jousting with a naked woman , like knights at a tournament . |
| 23 | Mrs Pitt was rude to me again today when I came out of the bathroom . |
| 24 | As a youngster — I was twelve when I came to this country — I imagined it was only temporary . |
| 25 | It was after ten o'clock when I came to consciousness of the world about me again . |
| 26 | See when I came to Rhos-y-Bol in nineteen thirty three , there was no St David 's Hospital then , all the babies were born at home . |
| 27 | ‘ So that 's what the atmosphere was about when I came to collect you ! ’ |
| 28 | This hypothesis was roughly confirmed by what I saw when I came to the quayside , or what had been the quayside when the lake existed . |
| 29 | ‘ You remember how he was when I came out , ’ John says . |
| 30 | ‘ I only remembered tonight when I came in and saw you drying your hair , ’ he assured her , his blue eyes gleaming with tender amusement . |