Example sentences of "and when [pers pn] [vb past] [pron] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were some trees below them , and when they reached them he slowed , she followed suit , and then he swished to a halt . |
| 2 | But there were five of them there one day in the porch and when they saw me they gathered up their bottles and began to go , except one . |
| 3 | Er a well I do n't know , I feel that th there used to be something in that , that used to burn it up now what they call their top site and when they burned it they took all the acid out of it , and there used to be all yellow stuff come out the chimney and that , when they finished burn that was always red and the Germans used to come after that before the war , Second World War , they used to come after that and they used to reckon they make paintwork but now you done something else different with it and they use I tell you we used to give it the name of green oar or parites |
| 4 | As they rounded the hump and came out on the broad , gentler seaward slope they saw a uniformed policeman standing on the cliff edge , and when they joined him he pointed to the rocky shore below . |
| 5 | And er I remembering Dad , once he bought a cherry tree , and went up to get all these here cherries off the trees , and when we got them we used to wipe them and put them in a bag , and sell them at the fairs . |
| 6 | Now this is where you come in erm and this is where we 've we 've done something which er we think is quite clever , this here is the back facade of Barley Hall and when we got it it was not medieval at all , there was no timber framing left , it was just this this er brick here , so we did n't want to fake it up to look medieval on the outside . |
| 7 | ‘ We removed the chocolate Flake bars and when we opened them they looked perfect . |
| 8 | At the end of two years she applied for jobs with various banks and when I met her she had just been accepted as a trainee accounting technician . |
| 9 | I viewed A&R men the same way and when I met them I realised that they knew even less than I thought they knew . |
| 10 | And when I asked her what she was doing with it , Emma — or maybe it was Sophie — told me that it had been dropped by two men , who were fighting each other behind some trees on the other side of the park . ’ |
| 11 | He is noted for possessing a ferocious intellectual curiosity — and when I asked him what he was reading while cruising across the Atlantic on Concorde , he said without flinching , Conversations with Isaiah Berlin . |
| 12 | And when I asked him what he meant , he said irritably , ‘ Oh , do n't be more stupid than you need be . |
| 13 | And when I asked him what would happen if it got known he just smiled and said I could talk if I wanted to . |
| 14 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 15 | When she finally went to the family planning clinic , the woman she saw was not very sympathetic , she said " What school do you go to ? " and when I told her she said " You 've really thrown away your chances . " " |
| 16 | He asked whose side I was on , and when I told him I was strongly opposed to Bodyline he said he thought it would be better if I did not go on with it . |
| 17 | ‘ I know , but she phoned for her results — she was surprised to get me , she seemed to have hoped you 'd be waiting by the phone — and when I told them you 'd gone , her mother took the phone and was in quite a tizz and had a word with Mr Fry and then said they 'd get the next plane home . |
| 18 | There were definite signs of something in the wind and when I saw who we were drawn with for the first rounds — Nick Price and Ray Floyd — both Nick and I were delighted . |
| 19 | ‘ Last month someone brought a red double-decker London bus down to the Algarve to promote British goods , and when I saw it I almost cried . ’ |
| 20 | She recalls that she met her ex-husband , cameraman Danny Mindel , on a plane going to the Seychelles and , after chatting for ages , asked if she could kiss him : ‘ And when I kissed him I knew I was going to marry him . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ And when I kissed you it rushed through me , waves of it ; I could barely restrain myself , thought I was going to make love to you on the spot . |
| 22 | And and when I rang her she said yeah bring the card over in the morning if you like . |
| 23 | One participant , Rinchen Dolma Taring , wrote in her book , Daughter of Tibet : ‘ The Lhasa women had made many anti-Chinese posters and when I joined them they were lined up around the Barkhor shouting slogans , ‘ From today Tibet is independent ’ and ‘ China must quit Tibet ’ . |
| 24 | Walking through the lobby of Hotel Vancouver one day I happened to see Shelly talking to a smart looking young lady and when I joined them he introduced his assistant , Hellen Semmens . |
| 25 | Cos did n't I say to you it 's a hundred and nineteen quid and when I bought yours it was a hundred pound . |
| 26 | ‘ I shut my eyes , the ball hit me on the nose , and when I opened them it was in the back of the net ’ . |
| 27 | And when I gave him what he wanted , he gave me what I wanted . |
| 28 | You are very kind to have thought of him and when I gave him your kiss he gave me a hundred in return to pass on to you believing I could and indeed I wish he was correct in his supposition . |
| 29 | I got the map from his secretary , and when I gave it him he spread it out on his desk . |
| 30 | After that I searched high and low for a new teacher , and when I found one I had to start from scratch . |