Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] [art] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I turn the light off , the only thing is , where the switch is |
| 2 | ‘ I did n't leave no mud when I cleaned the floor yesterday , ’ said Mary . |
| 3 | I am finding that when I get the ball further forward in my stance it helps . |
| 4 | and , and the garage was unlocked so I did n't bother , I probably put it down when I got the steamer out of the cupboard |
| 5 | but when I got the car back on to the road , I mean I 'm a , a complete bag of nerves and I 'm , I 'm not wanting to be walking along the , the edge of the bypass at one o'clock in the morning |
| 6 | – I dare say that when I strip the tank down in the future I 'll find a mixed colony lurking somewhere in a corner ! |
| 7 | I 'd just squawked the new transponder code when I saw a helicopter ahead at two o'clock . |
| 8 | ‘ When I saw a stage-play instead of a sermon on the Lord 's days … and heard little preaching but what was … against the Puritans , I was glad to be gone . ’ |
| 9 | And when I saw the landlady there she said that she did have a Mr there but he 'd left a few days ago , did n't know where he 'd got to . |
| 10 | Lazio doctor Claudio Bartolini , who was scared when Gazza was first injured , said yesterday : ‘ When I saw the accident again on TV I was very worried , but this morning I looked at it and now we are both very happy . |
| 11 | When I fill a book in about recordings and that how do you put have you got a regional accent ? |
| 12 | He was always vague when I brought the subject up , so I never pushed it . |
| 13 | When I let the dog out . |
| 14 | ‘ Besides , I saw eggs and cheese and all sorts of stuff in the cupboard when I spent the night there . |
| 15 | Yet when I take a taxi back to the club , the driver tells me that the Indians will be getting it in the neck soon . |
| 16 | When I take the plaster off , that 's when your problems will begin . ’ |
| 17 | I would get mad when I put the phone down and cry a lot , but certainly I would n't get mad with her . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ When I put the phone down on him on Friday that was it . |
| 19 | But when I put the phone down I find he has been standing in the doorway . |
| 20 | And then , when I put the phone down again , it resumes its full natural flow , inside my head instead of outside , as perfectly articulate and well-modulated as only a voice inside one 's head has a chance to be . |
| 21 | At first , when I put the phone down in the darkness that evening and returned to my pupil in the study , I was not too worried . |
| 22 | But when I looked a bit closer , I saw they were advertising gigs that were happening there next week . ’ |
| 23 | When I quoted the study back at him , he resorted to some rather irrelevant quotation about the youth training scheme , in an attempt to fend off my criticisms . |
| 24 | I would have done it actually when , when I took the plate out but the water in the bowl was cold . |
| 25 | Oh God , must be six possibly seven years now when I took the policy out originally I think . |
| 26 | I wrote to the Secretary of State for the Environment and was told that it was really a matter for the chief environmental officer of the local authority , but when I took the matter up with the local environmental officer , his response — and it is to his credit that he responded — was , ’ Well , it may be bad , but it is not really so bad that I must take any action . ’ |
| 27 | All I 've got to do when I give the tape back is |
| 28 | I cycled off quickly , but when I discussed the matter subsequently with my wife she said that to carry a knife was not uncommon nowadays . |
| 29 | When I examined the manger where the feed had been put , I found oats and bran . |
| 30 | But I did get another tingle of excitement when I swam a shade too near a jagged reef , and she grabbed me by the shoulder to pull me away . |