Example sentences of "and when [pron] started " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her cries and thumps awakened both children , and when they started to cry , Charlotte screamed at her . |
| 2 | And er then they started blacklegs and when they started the rest of the firms all came as well then and I remember er going down on the picket lines and er they 'd be all the members there . |
| 3 | And when they started to shout these people out shopping , cos everybody stopped to see what the fellers screaming about . |
| 4 | Yeah and er you know we can do a certain amount but I think if you went away from that you can go away from it a little bit but I think if you went too much away the people that you have and and our audience when we 've got them you know , they tend to stay with us you know they do n't change like the the youngsters and when we started off first you know our audience were mainly over forty five fifty plus really and now they 're down to we 're getting you know loads of of people in their twenties and in their teens and even down to kids like last night , five and six years old . |
| 5 | That 's a very difficult issue , and when we started working with this particular group of people they said , ‘ We ca n't do it . |
| 6 | And when it started to wind , they 'd bang the coal on , they 'd bang the empties off and my job was to er tt push the empties , split them , split the empties , |
| 7 | And when I started to write on the piano I found that when I translated it back to the guitar it was better . |
| 8 | I was allowed to wear high heels for beauty contests , however , and when I started work , he always bought me expensive Italian leather . |
| 9 | Although she is now slim , Liz confesses to a terrible struggle with her weight , which makes peasant-style clothes , such as Monsoon 's glorious Tibetan embroidered skirt ( see page 16 ) particularly good for her : ‘ I put on a great deal of weight after the twins were born , and when I started diving , it became very obvious because fat floats , so you have to balance your weight with extra diving weights . |
| 10 | Colchester was an engineering base , there 's no doubt about that , there was David Paxmans , you must all about , the great big diesel firm , they did some lovely er diesel engines for the high speed trains which , of course , obviously been superseded by electrics , they used to employ three thousand people and when I started in college we did n't enrol their apprentices on the college site , we went to Paxmans and we enroled one hundred apprentices every year on a five year course , that mean they had a five hundred apprentices in a pool , did n't they , just like that ! |
| 11 | And when I started doing it I knew the hang of it and I turned round to her afterwards and said , " That was easy . " |
| 12 | And when I started children I used to go out scrubbing , and cleaning . |
| 13 | And when I started back , he said : |
| 14 | I cycled over from Creeting at the usual time and when I started it were all right . |
| 15 | And when I started putting on weight I and I 'm still putting on weight . |
| 16 | I had always been singing energetic music from the time I was just a little girl , and when I started getting songs like Sweet Nothings , I loved those songs , and I wanted to sing them . |
| 17 | And when you started to talk about marriage , it all seemed to be happening again . |
| 18 | They were n't sheep , every nome could think for itself , and when you started to think hard about sudden darkness and mysterious humming noises , panicking seemed a logical idea . |
| 19 | A runner since the early fifties , Hugh had an 18-month spell of injury in 1988 , and when he started training again his weight had gone from 11 stone to 12st 4lb — ‘ and it felt like 16 stone when I was out running ’ . |
| 20 | And when he started going out all the time , she started going out occasionally . |
| 21 | His wife had disapproved of this development at first — he suspected that she had paired off Damien and Clare in her mind — but when it transpired that Mark had been baptized a Catholic , and when he started to go to Mass again , she had become favourably disposed to the idea of their going out together . |
| 22 | Following this , they laid him on the bed again , and when he started to groan May said , ‘ He 'll live , ’ and turning and looking at Mrs Funnell , she added , ‘ Unfortunately , ’ before marching out of the room . |
| 23 | You , you , you assumed that he was flying as a , as a fare paying passenger erm and when he started , when you s then started saying how many miles do you do Steve went straight back to talk about car travel . |