Example sentences of "when [pron] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when I finally appeared in my ship 's airlock , the only thing that Mala could find to say was , ’ Do n't you look a mess ! ’ |
| 2 | I thought I 'd gone before I came out of my house but I had a feeling when I nearly got to their school that I ought to have again . |
| 3 | ‘ When I originally started with them I was playing bass on three or four songs . |
| 4 | ‘ And you knew nothing about his family when you finally succumbed to his persuasion ? ’ |
| 5 | In fact , I was shattered when you never replied to my letter . ’ |
| 6 | He looked at her with exasperation when she just gazed at him with wide deep blue eyes . |
| 7 | When she just gazed at him , he said patiently , ‘ I 've paid the agreed price , so tell me why , when you ought to be jubilant , you 're so obviously sad . ’ |
| 8 | When she just looked at him his face softened magically . |
| 9 | No , ’ he confirmed gently when she just stared at him in shock , ‘ you need n't answer , not if you promised not to . |
| 10 | It was his soft eyes that had put her at ease the first time she met him , when she timidly knocked at his door just a few years ago , the evening when Fred employed a helper and found his future wife . |
| 11 | A monster 's mum was hanging up the washing in the garden when she suddenly yelled at him : |
| 12 | Course we was feverishly trying to chip the bricks and things off the horse then how , what had happened because we 'd got two stalls for them , and there was pigs in the one side and the horse in the other one , but of course when we eventually came to it , or they eventually came to the horse , he was dead , been killed standing up there like , you know and er , poor old pigs was all dead as well and as I said , about a hundred fell and two or three would been blown sky high . |
| 13 | The drama created a desire , a need for knowledge , which was useful to them — and when they later returned to their drama they were far more committed to it . |
| 14 | When they immediately reacted with their automatic alarm response of rolling up into a tight ball , the entire family promptly rolled down the slope of the hill and came to rest at the man 's feet , where he picked them up and popped them into his collecting bag . |
| 15 | When they eventually went for him , at the end of 1986 , they were pipped by Somerset . |
| 16 | Grainne had known that when it finally came to it , she would be afraid — for I have never known anyone other than Fergus , and with Fergus it was so natural and so sweet — but she had not expected this sudden rush of tenderness . |
| 17 | There was never a time in Sir Hector Laing 's life when it ever occurred to him to work for any other company than the family business , originally called McVitie $ Price and now known as United Biscuits . |
| 18 | When it sometimes emerged from her own lips , her teachers or friends would look at her oddly , wondering whether they had heard her correctly . |
| 19 | She was sipping the last of her coffee , however , when it suddenly came to her just how much Ven had been in her thoughts since she had awakened , also how very much she wanted to see him again ! |
| 20 | She was motoring through Germany , though , when it suddenly dawned on her that she had n't asked Cara that most fundamental of questions — when was she supposed to return to England ? |
| 21 | The dog sank its powerful jaws into the boy 's face when it suddenly turned on him as he played at his home in Alton , Hants . |
| 22 | When he finally returned with his mother , he avoided official menus and the tourist cuisine , eating instead the simple foods which are served in good private restaurants , homes and even on street stalls . |
| 23 | We had just passed over a gaggle of eighteen-thousand-foot volcanoes , great slag heaps of ash with gaping vents pointed at the clear blue bowl of the heavens , when he finally shifted in his seat and leaned across me to look out of the window , blinking his eyes . |
| 24 | What would Changez make of his wife when he finally looked at her ? |
| 25 | The upper rooms were silent when he finally went to his own room , but before getting into bed he pushed his wedge of broken chair-leg under the door to keep the Bogeyman out . |
| 26 | When he finally walked past her room to go to his she was ashamed and shocked at the disappointment that raced through her . |
| 27 | When he finally got on his feet , Roger seemed unduly keen , and I found myself unexpectedly on the defensive . |
| 28 | When he finally got in there were scenes with revolvers and bottles of rum ’ , Max Jacob , her night-watchman declared . |
| 29 | NIGEL HAD NOT SEEN KAREN IN ABOUT SIX MONTHS AND WHEN HE finally called on her she was cold . |
| 30 | My father used to spend hours on the lavatory smoking and reading the paper ; when he finally emerged at my mother 's disgusted summons , a rich smell of shit and tobacco would sidle out into the corridor . |